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Simon Chan Celebration Symposium

Multipurpose Room, Student Community Center, UC Davis

January 19, 2023

The late Dr. Simon Chan

 

Simon Chan (1974-2012) was born in Auckland, New Zealand. He completed his Ph.D. with Elizabeth Blackburn at UCSF and his postdoc with Steve Jacobsen at UCLA. He joined the Plant Biology Department at UC Davis in 2006 where he started his work on epigenetic regulation of plant centromeres. With postdoc Ravi Maruthachalam, he discovered that modification of CENH3 can lead to chromosome elimination opening a fertile field of research in plant haploid induction. 

The symposium will be broadcast on line via Zoom. 

The symposium will be held in the Multipurpose Room of the Student Community Center on the UC Davis campus. 

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Simon Chan Symposium Flyer

Symposium Schedule
 

TimeSpeakerTitle or preliminary topic
9:00 AMMark Winey, Dean, CBS, UCDWelcome
9:10 AMRavi, IISER TVM, INDIAMemento
9:20 AMRavi, IISER TVM, INDIAThe story behind the serendipitous discovery of CENH3-mediated haploid induction
9:50 AMRaphael Mercier, MPI KölnRecombination
10:20 AMIan Henderson, U of CambridgeThe Arabidopsis pancentromere
10:50 AMBreak 
11:10 AM Memento
11:20 AMAnne Britt, UCDHaploid-inducing mutations in CENH3
11:50 AMMohan Marimuthu, UCDCENH3-dependent epigenetic states affect hybrid compatibility  
12:20 PMLunch 
1:35 PM Memento
1:45 PMTim Kelliher, SyngentaBroadening CENH3 applications: wheat doubled haploids, HI-Edit, and one-step CMS
2:15 PMIsabelle Henry, UCDCenH3-based genome elimination in hexaploid camelina: strength in numbers
2:30 PMBenny Ordonez, UCDMinichromosomes from haploid induction
2:45 PMImtiyaz Khanday, UCDSynthetic apomixis: are clonal seeds coming to the farmer’s field?
3:00 PMBreak 
3:20 PMKelly Dawe, U of GeorgiaCentromeric manipulations in maize
3:50 PMSteve Jacobsen, UCLARegulation of gene expression by DNA methylation
4:20 PM Short mementos and closing remark