应大豆分子设计育种重点实验室邀请，美国密西根州立大学分子遗传学系副教授蒋宁拟于3月29日上午来所做学术报告。

　　报告人：蒋宁

　　报告题目：Transposable elements and the genome size viriation　

　　报告时间：2016年3月29日(星期二)

　　          上午9：30-11：30

　　报告地点：综合楼4楼会议室（哈区视频）

　　欢迎广大师生踊跃参加！

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　　　                            报告人简介

　　蒋宁，美国密西根州立大学分子遗传学系副教授，在Nature，Science等国际顶级杂志上发表论文多篇，在转座子在真核基因组多样性中的作用及进化研究中取得了多项突破性的进展。

　　代表性论文：

　　Zhao D, Ferguson A, Jiang N.Transposition of a rice Mutator-like element in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Plant Cell. 2015 ;27(1):132-48.

　　Gao D, Jiang N, Wing RA, Jiang J, Jackson SA. Transposons play an important role in the evolution and diversification of centromeres among closely related species. Front Plant Sci. 2015;6:216. doi: 10.3389/fpls

　　Law M, Childs KL, Campbell MS, Stein JC, Olson AJ, Holt C, Panchy N, Lei J, Jiao D, Andorf CM, Lawrence CJ, Ware D, Shiu SH, Sun Y, Jiang N, Yandell M. Automated update, revision, and quality control of the maize genome annotations using MAKER-P improves the B73 RefGen_v3 gene models and identifies new genes. Plant Physiol. 2015;167(1):25-39.

　　Zhao D, Jiang N. Nested insertions and accumulation of indels are negatively correlated with abundance of mutator-like transposable elements in maize and rice. 2014;9(1):e87069.

　　Campbell MS, Law M, Holt C, Stein JC, Moghe GD, Hufnagel DE, Lei J, Achawanantakun R, Jiao D, Lawrence CJ, Ware D, Shiu SH, Childs KL, Sun Y, Jiang N, Yandell M. MAKER-P: a tool kit for the rapid creation, management, and quality control of plant genome annotations. Plant Physiol. 2014;164(2):513-24.

　　Ferguson AA, Zhao D, Jiang N. Selective acquisition and retention of genomic sequences by Pack-Mutator-like elements based on guanine-cytosine content and the breadth of expression. Plant Physiol. 2013;163(3):1419-32.

　　Jiang N. Computational methods for identification of DNA transposons. Methods Mol Biol. 2013;1057:289-304.

　　Jiang N. Overview of repeat annotation and de novo repeat identification. Methods Mol Biol. 2013;1057:275-87.

　　Jiang, N., Ferguson, A. A., Slotkin, R. K., Lisch, D. 2011. Pack-Mutator-like transposable elements (Pack-MULEs) induce directional modification of genes through biased insertion and DNA acquisition. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 108:1537-1542.

　　Jiang, N., Gao, D., Xiao, H. and van der Knaap, E. 2009. Genome organization of the tomato sun locus and characterization of the unusual retrotransposon Rider. Plant J. 60:181-193.

　　Hanada, K., Vallejo, V., Nobuta, K., Slotkin, R.K., Lisch, D., Meyers, B.C., Shiu, S.H. and Jiang, N. 2009. The Functional Role of Pack-MULEs in Rice Inferred from Purifying Selection and Expression Profile. Plant Cell 21:25-38.

　　Xiao H., Jiang N., Schaffner E., Stockinger E.J., van der Knaap E. 2008. A retrotransposon-mediated gene duplication underlies morphological variation of tomato fruit. Science 319:1527-1530

　　Jiang, N., Bao, Z., Zhang, X., Eddy, S.R. and Wessler, S.R. 2004. Pack-MULE transposable elements mediate gene evolution in plants. Nature 431:569-573.

　　Jiang, N., Feschotte, C., Zhang, X., and Wessler, S.R. 2004. Using rice to understand the origin and amplification of MITEs. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 7:115-119.

　　Jiang, N., Bao, Z., Zhang, X., Hirochika, H., Eddy, S.R., McCouch, S.R. and Wessler, S.R. 2003. An active DNA transposon family in rice. Nature 421:163-167.

　　Jiang, N., Jordan, I.K. and Wessler, S.R. 2002. Dasheng and RIRE2: a non-autonomous LTR element and its putative autonomous partner in the rice genome. Plant Physiol. 130:1697-1705.

　　Jiang, N., Bao, Z., Temnykh, S., Cheng, Z., Jiang, J., Wing, R.A., McCouch, S.R. and Wessler, S.R. 2002. Dasheng: a recently amplified non-autonomous LTR element that is a major component of pericentromeric regions in rice. Genetics 161:1293-1305.

　　Feschotte, C., Jiang, N. and Wessler, S.R. 2002. Plant transposable elements: where genetics meets genomics. Nature Rev. Genet. 3:329-341.

　　Jiang, N. and Wessler, S.R. 2001. Insertion preference of maize and rice MITEs as revealed by the analysis of nested elements. Plant Cell 13:2553-2564.