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19th & 20th March, 2015
Malaysia: Second Plant Genomics Congress to take place in Kuala Lumpur
Since the Plant Genomics Congress was first launched, 1,500 people have attended this meeting on three continents. These meetings have been praised both for the quality of the scientific content of the presentations and for the fantastic opportunity to network with leading plant scientists from academia and industry.
- Day 1 Stream 1 - NGS / Omic Technologies for Plant Research
- Day 1 Stream 2 - Plant Genomic Case Studies
- Day 2 Stream 1 - Bioinformatics, Data Analysis & Management
- Day 2 Stream 1 – A) Plant Genomic Case Studies & B) Biofuel Research Case Studies
Learn more about the Plant Genomics Congress by watching the video of the 2014 congress below:
Confirmed Speakers
Qing-Yao Shu, Professor, Institute of Crop Science (Department of Agronomy), Deputy Executive Director, Bioseed R&D Centre, Zhejiang University, China
Dan Voytas, Professor, Director of the Center for Genome Engineering, University of Minnesota, USA
John Manners, Chief, CSIRO Plant Industry, Australia
Yasunari Ogihara, Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Yokohama City University, Japan
Odd Arne Olsen, Professor, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences Norwegian University of Life Science, Norway
Suk Singh, Wheat Portfolio Lead, CIMMYT - International Maize and Wheat Improvement, Mexico
Hiroyoshi Iwata, Associate Professor, Biometry and Bioinformatics Lab, University of Tokyo, Japan
Suk-Ha Lee, Department of Plant Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, South Korea
Henry Nguyen, Director, National Center for Soybean Biotechnology, University of Missouri, USA
I-Chun Pan, Assistant Professor, Department of Horticulture, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
Inez Hortense Slamet-Loedin, IRRI - International Rice Research Institute, Philippines
Paul Quick, Principal Scientist and Head of C4 Rice Project, IRRI - International Rice Research Institute, Philippines
James Birchler, Curators' Professor Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, USA
James Petrie, Research Scientist, Head, Metabolic Engineering Group, CSIRO, Australia
Harikrishna Kulaveerasingam, Senior Vice President II, R&D, Sime Darby Technology Centre, Malaysia
Ajjamada Kushalappa, Associate Professor, Plant Science Department, McGill University, Canada
Gen Hua Yue, Senior Principal investigator, Molecular Population Genetics Group, Strategic Research Program Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore
Hai-Chun Jing, Professor, Institute of Botany, Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Bronwyn Barkla, Associate Professor, Southern Cross Plant Science, Southern Cross University, Australia
Jie Luo, Professor, National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, China
Olga Pontes, Principal Investigator, Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, China
Mike Jones, Professor of Agricultural Biotechnology, Director, WA State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, Murdoch University, Australia
Jacqueline Batley, Associate Professor, ARC QEII Research Fellow - School of Agriculture & Food Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Queensland, Australia
Dong-Yup Lee, Assistant Professor & Principal Investigator, Systems Biology and Bioinformatics Group, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Ryohei Terauchi, Adjunct Professor, Iwate Biotechnology Research Centre, Japan
Andrea Harper, Research Associate, University of York, UK
Susan Wilson, Professor, Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australia
Dave Edwards, Principal Research Fellow, School of Agriculture & Food Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia
Ji-Young Lee, Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Science, Seoul National University, South Korea
Jennifer Ann Harikrishna, Director, Centre for Research in Biotechnology for Agriculture, Professor, University of Malaya, Institute of Biological Sciences, Malaysia
Qifa Zhang, Professor and Director, National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, China
Steve Swain, Research Director, Breakthrough Genetic Breeding Technologies, CSIRO Agriculture Flagship, Australia