Dear teachers and fellow students，
“Global Forum for Excellent Young Scholar” welcomes young talents with different academic background around the world, to discuss frontier and hot research topics with the hope of creating a platform for both SCUT and young scholars to promote international exchanges and cooperation.The arrangement of the forum is as below：
1.Time
9：00 am，May 10，2017
2.Venue
DongTang Conference Room, Building #13
3.Agenda
（1）9：00—9：05 Welcome Speech
（2）9：05—9：35 Speaker：Dr. Shiyong Song, National University of Singapore.
Title: OsFTIP1 Regulation of Florigen Transport in Rice
Contents：
Flowering time is a critical agronomic trait that determines successful seed production and adaptation of crop plants. Photoperiodic control of this process in flowering plants is mediated by the long-distance mobile signal called florigen partly encoded by FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) in Arabidopsis and its orthologs in other plant species. Despite the progress in understanding FT transport in the dicot model Arabidopsis, the mechanisms of florigen transport in monocots, which provide the majority of the biomass in agriculture, are still largely unknown. In this talk I will describe that rice FT-INTERACTING PROTEIN 1 (OsFTIP1), is required for export of RICE FLOWERING LOCUS T 1 (RFT1) from companion cells to sieve elements. This affects RFT1 movement to the shoot apical meristem and its regulation of rice flowering time under long days. I will further discuss that a ubiquitin-like domain kinase γ4, OsUbDKγ4, interacts with OsFTIP1, and modulates its degradation in leaves through the 26S proteasome, which in turn affects RFT1 transport to the SAM. I will discuss the dynamic modulation of OsFTIP1 abundance in leaves is integral to OsFTIP1 effect on mediating RFT1 transport in rice, and the conserved role of FTIP1-like MCTPs in mediating florigen transport in flowering plants.
（3）9：35—10：00 Speaker：Dr. Jiahua Shi, Nanyang Technological University.
Title: Food safety, antimicrobial resistance and next generation sequencing
Contents：
In this talk, I will present my research about food security, food production technology and food safety and what our group is doing to achieve more efficient, safe and sustainable food production. In the first part, I will introduce next generation sequencing and pathogen detection in food, collaborating with and World Health Organization (WHO). In the second part, I will focus on antimicrobial resistance and its effect; the ban of antibiotic use and its results. Lastly, I will share my research about quantitative sustainability assessment and risk assessment in aquaculture collaborating with Technical University of Denmark and supported by Singapore government.
Welcome to attend!
