Title: Impact of transposable elements on subgenome divergence of common wheat

Time: 4:30 pm, December 7, 2021

Venue: N8T07

Introduction of Speaker:

Jia Jizeng is a professor of the Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. His research area focuses on wheat genomics and gene resources research. He has published more than 160 scientific papers, such as Nature, Nature Communications, Nature Plants, New Phytologist, Theoretical and Applied Genetics, Chinese Agricultural Sciences and so on.He and his team developed a large number of gene resources for the wheat genome and breeding research, and bred 4 new varieties.They designed Wheat 660K and 55KSNP arrays which have been widely usedon the areas of wheatgenomics, gene resource and molecular breeding. Some of scientific achievements were selected as the top ten progresses in China’s Science in 2013, major scientific research progress in China's Agricultural Sciences in 2017 and major scientific and technological achievements in the 13th five year plan.

He has successively served as the member and the deputy director of the academic committee of the Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences; the member of academic committee of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences; the editorial board members of Scientia Agricultura Sinica, Acta Agronomica Sinica, Journal of Plant Genetic Resources, Journal of Agricultural Biotechnology, International Journal of Plant Genomics, Plant Biotechnology Journal and other journals; the consulting expert of the 973 Plan of the Ministry of Science and Technology,the committeemember of NSFC project; the members of organizing committee of academic conferences such as International Wheat Genetics Conference (IWGS), Symposium on Plant Germplasm Resources Research Based on Genomics (PGPR), National Plant Genome Conference, and the chairman of National Wheat Genomics and Molecular Breeding Conference. He won the National Advanced Worker (2005), the National 5.1 Labor Medal (2003), the National Excellent Agricultural Science and Technology Worker (2001), the National Excellent Science and Technology Worker (1997), the third prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award (rank No.1, 1997), the National Science and Technology Progress Innovation Team Award (rank No.4, 2016), and other awards and honors.