威廉希尔学术报告

题目：Agriculture’s Future:  Food, Nutrition and Water

报告人：Barbara Schaal, Ph.D.

Mary Dell Chilton Distinguished Professor in Arts and Sciences，

Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences，

Washington University in St. Louis

时间：2016年5月24日（星期二）19:00-20:00

地点：英国威廉希尔公司英杰交流中心月光厅

主持人：邓兴旺

摘要：

Agriculture is faced with several challenges including providing greater yields to feed a growing world population and participating in the bioeconomy of new products.  At the same time agriculture has a large and negative environmental footprint due to both large agrochemical and water use.  Overarching all of these is the challenge from a climate that is changing, often in ways we don’t fully understand.  How can these many challenges be addressed?  Nations need to foster a vigorous agriculture ecosystem that maintains a basic science enterprise, crop and animal development, and a strong workforce pipeline.  

报告人简介：

Barbara Schaal is the Mary Dell Chilton Distinguished Professor in Arts and Sciences and Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences at Washington University.  She is a plant evolutionary biologist who uses DNA sequences and genomics to understand evolutionary processes such as gene flow, geographical differentiation, and the domestication of crop species. Her most recent work focuses on the evolutionary genomics of rice.

Schaal graduated from the University of Illinois, Chicago with a degree in biology and received a Ph.D. from Yale University.  She was on the faculty of the University of Houston and Ohio State University before joining Washington University in 1980, where she has served as chair of the biology department.  She has been president of the Botanical Society of America and president of the Society for the Study of Evolution.  She was the Vice President of the US National Academy of Sciences from 2005-2013. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Wilbur Cross Medal from Yale University, the Key award from the American Genetics Association, an honorary degree from the University of Illinois and is an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was selected in 2012 by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as the US Science Ambassador to Latin America.  She currently serves on President Obama’s Council of Advisors for Science and Technology (PCAST) and is President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the publisher of Science Magazine.

欢迎各位老师同学积极参加！