Title: Plant Development and Future Agriculture

 

Duration: 2 weeks

 

Credits: 2

 

Venue: School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

 

Course Description

The Summer School focuses on the significant national demands in the seed industry and food security. It centers around critical areas of innovation within the seed industry, providing students with in-depth lectures on the forefront issues in plant cell development. Students will have the opportunity to explore the mechanisms behind plant growth, development, and adaptation to the environment. They will delve into subjects such as plant genomics, the role of growth hormones, photosynthesis, and plant adaptability. By grasping the fundamental principles of plant growth, students will be able to contribute to the future of agriculture and breeding, aiding in addressing significant challenges such as food security, climate change, and sustainability.

TIME					TRI.	WEEKEND
					Registration	Opening Ceremony
TIME	MON.	TUE.	WED.	THU.	TRI.	WEEKEND
AM	Plant hormones, developmental regulation, and high yield breeding（class）	Plant hormones, developmental regulation, and high yield breeding（class）	Organelle structure, function, and high photosynthetic capacity breeding（class）	Organelle structure, function, and high photosynthetic capacity breeding（class）	Lecture	Culture Activity
PM	Chenshan Botanical Garden（visit）	Chinese Culture	Pujiang Green Valley Base（visit）	Chinese Culture	Free Activity
TIME	MON.	TUE.	WED.	THU.	TRI.
AM	Plant-environment interaction and high stress-tolerance breeding（class）	Plant-environment interaction and high stress-tolerance breeding（class）	Metabolism, synthetic biology, and high nutrition breeding（class）	Metabolism, synthetic biology, and high nutrition breeding（class）	Return
PM	Lankuaikei Technology Enterprise（visit）	Chinese Culture	SJTU Wine center & Grapes Planting Base（visit）	Chinese Culture

 

Highlight

• Outstanding students participating in this Summer School will have the opportunity to receive scholarships of up to 2500 RMB.
• The program will feature lectures by 3-4 eminent international academic experts from top agricultural research institutions such as the John Innes Centre, the Max Planck Institute, Wageningen University in the Netherlands, and so on.
• Two tours of SJTU Wine center & Grapes Planting Base and Chenshan Botanical Garden;
• Tours of Pujiang Green Valley Base, Shanghai Yangtze River Delta Eco-Environmental Change and Management Observation and Research Station, and Lankuaikei Technology Enterprise;

 

Key Details:

• Program Dates: July 1st - July 14th, 2024
• Application Deadline: May 30th, 2024
• Outstanding students will have the chance to be awarded a scholarship of 2500 RMB.

 

Instructors

Prof. Dr. George Coupland

Email:coupland@mpipz.mpg.de

Prof. Dr. George Coupland is the director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research (since 2001) and was elected on May 1st 2012 as a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences (USA). Study of microbiology Univ. of Glasgow, graduated with First Class Honours (1981), PhD in molecular biology Univ. of Edinburgh (1984), postdoctoral fellowship Univ. of Cologne (1985-1988), Research Group Leader Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge (1989-1990), Research Group Leader John Innes Centre, Norwich (1990-2001). His group focuses on reproductive development and the evolution of perennial life history.

 

Prof. Hugues Renault

Hugues Renault is a professor at the Institute of Plant Molecular Biology (Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, France). He obtained his PhD from the University of Paris-Sud and pursued postdoctoral research at the institute.His research primarily focuses on molecular plant biology, particularly in plant gene expression regulation, plant signal transduction, and plant stress resistance.

 

Assoc.Prof. Sian Bray

Email:Sian.Bray@nottingham.ac.uk

Sian Bray is an assistant professor of Bioinformatics, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Nottingham. Her work focuses on the evolutionary genomics underlying adaptation. She has a range of skills including ‘dry-lab’ bioinformatic and programming skills as well as ‘wet-lab’ biochemistry and structural biology skills. Most recently her work has focused on genome-wide scans for selection and extensive GWAS analyses.

 

Assoc.Prof. Guozhang WU

Email: gzwu@sjtu.edu.cn

Dr. Guozhang WU is a Tenure Track Associate Professor in the School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai JiaoTong University. He received a Ph.D. in Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, CAS, and did postdoc work at Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology. His group thinks plastids (chloroplasts) are essential organelles that harbor photosynthesis and the biosynthesis of various primary and secondary metabolites, and act as environmental sensors which participate in multiple stress response. They use state-of-the-art techniques in the lab to understand: 1.Bidirectional communication between plastids and the nucleus (anterograde and retrograde signaling).  2. Plastid protein import and the cellular response to protein import stress, regulation of plastid protein homeostasis. 3. The role of plastids in abiotic stress, especially temperature stress.

 

Assoc.Prof. Hongbo GAO

Email: hongbo.gao@sjtu.edu.cn

Dr. Hongbo GAO is a Tenure Track Associate Professor in the School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai JiaoTong University. He received a Ph.D. in Science of Plant Physiology and Ecology, SIBS, CAS, and did postdoc work at John Innes Centre. His group are interested in application of Single-cell and single-cell-type isolation, sequencing and multi-omics studies in plant research. Basing on these tools, we are focusing on three topics: 1. Developing new single-cell sequencing methods and setting up single-cell platforms on horticultural crops. 2. Studying novel regulatory mechanisms involved in recombination and transcription during meiosis. 3. Studying the mechanism and function of epigenetic reprogramming during development and cell identity specification.

 

Assoc.Prof. Ruohe YIN

Email: ruohe.yin@sjtu.edu.cn

Dr. Ruohe Yin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Plant Science, School of Agriculture and Biology, SJTU.He is awarded the National 1000 Young Talents Program and Shanghai Pujiang Talent Plan. As an independent group leader, the group uses Tomato and Arabidopsis Thaliana as model plants in the lab, applying various approaches to unravel UV-B light signal transduction pathways extending from the photoreceptor to signaling cascades and target genes and proteins important for metabolic homeostasis,plant shape, and architecture determination.

 

Assoc.Prof. Yingnan HOU

Email: yingnanh@sjtu.edu.cn

Dr. Yingnan HOU is an Associate Professor in the Department of Plant Science, School of Agriculture and Biology, SJTU. He received a Ph.D. in Peking University. He served as an assistant project scientist at UC Riverside, California, US. He interestes in epigenetic regulation of plant immunity; trans-species movement of molecules between plant and microbe; impacts of environmental changes to plant-microbe interaction.

 

Assessment

Attendance: 25%;

Participation in question discussion: 25%;

Essay and report: 50%

 

Detailed Information:2024 SJTU GLOBAL SUMMER SCHOOL-Plant Development and Future Agriculture

 

Contact

Program Director : Prof. Hongbo GAO

Program Coordinator: Ms. Yuxuan HAO (haoyuxuan@sjtu.edu.cn)，

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