CAU-ISU Maize Genetics & Breeding Workshop
2025 Roy J. Carver Co-Laboratory, Iowa State University
1111 WOI Road, Ames, Iowa 50011-1085
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On 20-21 March 2012 The Center for Plant Genomics hosted a delegation of scientists from National Maize Improvement Center of China at China Agriculture University in Beijing. This workshop was designed to "kick-off" the newly formed joint CAU-ISU Center of Maize Genetics and Breeding. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) establishing the new center was signed by Presidents Bingsheng Ke (CAU) and Steven Leath (ISU).
The following CAU scientists participated:
- Dr. Jiansheng LI, Professor
- Dr. Shaojiang CHEN, Professor
- Dr. Weiwei JIN, Professor
- Dr. Jinsheng LAI, Professor
- Dr. Feng TIAN, Professor
- Dr. Mingliang XU, Professor
- Dr. Xiaohong YANG, Associate Professor
Participating ISU scientists included:
- Dr. Pat SCHNABLE (Baker Professor, Agronomy/Director, Center for Plant Genomics)
- Dr. Phil BECRAFT (Professor, GDCB/Agronomy)
- Dr. Candy GARDNER (Assistant Professor, Agronomy/Research Leader, USDA Plant Introduction Station)
- Dr. Kendall LAMKEY (Chair & Pioneer Distinguished Chair in Maize Breeding, Agronomy)
- Dr. Carolyn LAWRENCE (Collaborating Assistant Professor, GDCB/Director, MaizeGDB)
- Dr. Sanzhen LIU/刘三震 (Post-doc, Schnable ab)
- Dr. Mike MUSZYNSKI (Adjunct Assistant Professor, GDCB)
- Dr. Tom PETERSON (Professor, GDCB/Agronomy)
- Dr. Kan WANG (Professor, Agronomy/Director Center for Plant Transformation)
- Dr. Wei WU/吳薇 (Manager, Genomic Technologies Facility/Schnable Lab)
Plus many graduate students and others.
The schedule of activities included the following presentations and tours:
Presentations:
- (ISU) Sanzhen Liu, "Presence/Absence Variation and its phenotypic consequences"
- (CAU) Jiansheng Li, "An introduction to CAU's National Maize Improvement Center"
- (CAU) Shaojiang Chen, "Progress of Double Haploid Breeding in maize"
- (ISU) Phil Becraft, "Genetic Control of Cell Differentiation in Maize Endosperm Development"
- (CAU) Mingliang Xu, "Towards Map-based cloning of resistance QTLs in maize"
- (CAU) Jinsheng Lai, "Genetic imprinting in the maize endosperm"
- (ISU) Mike Muszynski, "Genetic and genomic approaches to define plant developmental networks"
- (CAU) Feng Tian, "Integrating the advantages of linkage analysis and association mapping for complex traits dissection"
- (ISU) Tom Peterson, "Genome rearrangements induced by the maize Ac/Ds transposable element system"
- (CAU) Xiaohong Yang, "The Genetic Architecture of Oil Content in Maize Kernel"
Tours:
- Tour of the GTF led by Wei Wu
- Tour of the PTF led by Kan Wang
- Tour MaizeGDB led by Carolyn Lawrence
- Tour of the USDA Plant Introduction Station led by Candy Gardner