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李先聞紀念講座

2025 李先聞紀念講座

Date: April 9, 2025

Speaker: Dr. James Birchler

Affiliation: Curators' Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, USA

Title: The Gene Balance Hypothesis: How regulatory gene stoichiometries affect expression, the phenotype, evolutionary processes and heterosis


2022 李先聞紀念講座

Date: May 11, 2022

Speaker: Dr. Tuan-hua David Ho

Affiliation: Distinguished Visiting Chair/Academician, Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica

Title: Hunting for unique and useful rice genes


2021 李先聞紀念講座

Date: December 14, 2021

Speaker: Dr. Nathan Springer

Affiliation: Presidential McKnight Endowed Professor in Plant Biology, University of Minnesota

Title: Dynamic crop genomes: Understanding how transposons create variation


2020 李先聞紀念講座

Date: November 25, 2020

Speaker: Dr. Wilhelm Gruissem

Affiliation: Professor/Yushan Scholar (玉山學者), Plant Biotechnology, Department of Biology, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland & Advanced Plant Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Title: Genetic engineering and CRISPR-Cas9 for trait development in rice and cassava


2019 李先聞紀念講座

Date: July 29, 2019

Speaker: Dr. Paloma Mas

Affiliation: Professor/EMBO Member, Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), Consortium CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)

Title: The Arabidopsis circadian clock: studies on function and regulation


2018 李先聞紀念講座

Date: November 15, 2018

Speaker: Dr. Robert Martienssen

Affiliation: Professor & HHMI Investigator, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA

Title: Epigenetic inheritance and germline reprogramming: how to avoid Bad Karma


2017 李先聞紀念講座

Date: December 6, 2017

Speaker: Pamela Ronald

Affiliation: Professor, Genome Center and Dept Plant Pathology, UC Davis/Director, Grass Genetics at the Joint Bioenergy Institute

Title: Plant Microbe Communications: The Story of Rice XA21/raxX


2016 李先聞紀念講座

Date: April 1, 2016

Speaker: Dr. Joachim Messing

Affiliation:

Selman A. Waksman University Professor and Director, Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers University, USA

Member, US Academy of Science

Member, German Academy of Science

Title: Concept and Implementation of Whole-Genome Sequencing


2015 李先聞紀念講座

Date: November 26, 2015

Speaker: Gynheung An

Affiliation: Director, Crop Biotech Institute, Chairman, Department of Plant Molecular Systems Biotechnology, Kyung Hee University, Korea

Title: Regulatory Network Controlling Flowering Time in Rice


2014 李先聞紀念講座

Date: October 6, 2014

Speaker: Blake Colin Meyers

Affiliation: Edward F. & Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor and Chair, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware, USA

Title: The Diversity of Small RNAs in Anthers


2013 李先聞紀念講座

Date: May 8, 2013

Speaker: Kenneth L. McNally

Affiliation:

Senior Scientist II, T.T. Chang Genetic Resources Center, International Rice Research Institute, Philippines

Adjunct Professor, Department of Genetics, University of the Philippines, Philippines

Title: Thousands of Rice Genotypes, Genomes and Phenotypes: Challenges are Opportunities


2012 李先聞紀念講座

Date: July 25, 2012

Speaker: Nori Kurata

Affiliation: Professor, Plant Genetics Laboratory, Genetic Strains Research Center, National Institute of Genetics, Japan

Title: From Cytogenetics to Genomics and Evolution in Rice


2010 李先聞紀念講座

Date: May 24, 2010

Speaker: Susan McCouch

Affiliation: Professor, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University, USA

Title: Genetic Isolation, Divergence and Gene Flow in Oryza Sativa