作物表型组学系列学术报告(二)
发布时间:2017-03-15 浏览次数:
 

报告题目 From fields to cells – a multilayer crop phenomics approach to explore the dynamics between crop performance and environmental factors for bread wheat

报告人:英国约翰·英纳斯中心 周济 博士

间:2017321(周二)上午9:00

点:理科楼A201

摘要: Automated field phenotyping can provide continuous and precise measures of environmental adaptation and yield-related performance traits that are key to today’s crop research, breeding pipelines and agricultural practices. In the seminar, he will introduce an integrated field phenotyping approach established at Norwich Research Park (John Innes Centre, JIC and Earlham Institute, EI), including UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles), 3D scanning crop phenotyping platform (Phenospex), networked CropQuant workstations and other novel machine learning based software solutions that facilitate high-resolution and high-frequency crop phenomics. In particular, he will talk about how we are utilising novel phenotypic analysis to empower the assessment of genes controlling yield potential and environmental adaptation. Also, introduce CropQuant, a cost-effective IoT (Internet of Things) in agriculture platform that integrates networked sensors, single-board computers, in-field wireless communication and open high-throughput analysis algorithms to capture and process field experimental datasets. Besides trait analysis, he has also established predictive models to explore the dynamics between genotype, phenotype and environment (GxPxE). A case study based on Near-isogenic lines (NILs) of wheat including Ppd-1 (loss of function), Ppd-D1a (photoperiod insensitivity), Rht-D1b (semi dwarfing), stay green induced mutants, and Lr19 (hypersensitive response to the pathogen), and Paragon wild type will be discussed.

Dr Ji Zhou

Education

• 2006-2011: PhD in Computer Science, University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich UK

• 2003-2005: MSc in Information Systems, UEA, Norwich UK

• 1995-1999: BEng in Computer Controlling, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, China

Employment History

• 2014–present: Project leader, Earlham Institute (EI, previously known as The Genome Analysis Centre, TGAC), co-funded by John Innes centre (JIC), Norwich Research Park (NRP, UK)

• 2011–2014: Postdoctoral fellow in bioinformatics, The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL), Norwich UK

• 2005–2009: Project consultant & lead systems analyst, IT Solutions, Norwich Union, Aviva UK

• 2002–2003: Bilingual ICT trainer, Singapore Informatics Group, Shanghai branch, China

• 1999–2002: Software engineer & ICT teacher, Shanghai Yucai Educational group, China