Hsien-Wen Li Memorial Lectures (Memorial Page)
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2025 Hsien-Wen Li Memorial Lectures
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 Hsien-Wen Li Memorial Lectures
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 Hsien-Wen Li Memorial Lectures
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 Hsien-Wen Li Memorial Lectures
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 Hsien-Wen Li Memorial Lectures
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 Hsien-Wen Li Memorial Lectures
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 Hsien-Wen Li Memorial Lectures
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 Hsien-Wen Li Memorial Lectures
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 Hsien-Wen Li Memorial Lectures
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 Hsien-Wen Li Memorial Lectures
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 Hsien-Wen Li Memorial Lectures
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 Hsien-Wen Li Memorial Lectures
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 Hsien-Wen Li Memorial Lectures
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