When: Monday, October 15, 2012 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Where: Plant Sciences : 1130
Event Type(s): Lecture

The Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture (PSLA)will host Dr. Jason Holliday for a lecture on Monday, October 15, 2012 at 4 pm in PLS 1130. The title of Dr. Holliday's presentation is, "Exome re-sequencing in poplar: toward genome-wide association mapping in a model tree".

Dr. Holliday is an assistant professor in the Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation at Virginia Tech. His research interests are climatic adaptation in widely distributed tree species, transcriptional responses to abiotic stress, genotype-phenotype association studies, conservation genetics, genome-enabled breeding, adaptation of tree populations to climate change, landscape genomics.
(http://frec.vt.edu/Faculty/JasonHolliday.html)

If you would like to meet with Dr. Holliday, please contact Dr. Coleman, gcoleman@umd.edu; or Sue Burk, sburk@umd.edu, to arrange a time.

For more information, contact:
Susan E. Burk
+1 301 405 6244
sburk@umd.edu