生命学院学术报告

Title: Plant Cell Wall Evolution: Genomics and Bioinformatics Approaches

Speaker: Yan-Bin Yin (尹燕斌)

Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA

Time:Jun 24, 2015，Wednesday,4-5pm

Location: Room 311, Wang Ke-Zhen Building, Peking University

Abstract

In the past hundreds of millions of years, from algae to land plants,the plant cell walls have developed into a highly complex structure that is essential for plant growth and survival. As the major components of plant biomass, plant cell walls are the largest renewable resource for biofuel production. Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes (CAZymes) are the most important players in plant cell walls synthesis and degradation. In this talk, I will present our lab`s research on developing bioinformatics tools that assist the study of CAZymes, and on bioinformatics mining genome and transcriptome data to understand how plant cell walls have evolved.

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