Title: The molecular control of fruit texture in apple and pear

Genotyping by Sequencing in Fruit Tree Species

Speaker: Dr.Robert Schaffer, The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Limited

Dr. Cecilia Deng, The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Limited:

Time: 10:30, October23, 2014 Location: Meeting room 2, Administration building

Cecilia Deng is a senior bioinformatician at The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Ltd. Her research focus is on using bioinformatic approaches to analyse plant and fungal genomes so as to help enhance the efficiency of cultivar breeding for desired traits. She specializes in a range of areas, such as next-generation sequencing (NGS) experiment design, de novo genome assembly, transcriptome assembly, gene prediction & annotation, comparative genomics, high-throughput genotyping & variants discovery, and differential gene expression profiling which will cover comparative genomics of Maleae genomes (apple, EU pear and Chinese pear), high-throughput genotyping and marker discovery for P. comm. , and a brief introduction of our pear scab resistance study.