Date: 16 December 2008 (Tueday)
Time: 8:00 am to 16:30 pm
Venue:
The Auditorium, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory Limited, 1 Research Link, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117604. Tel: (65)6872 7000 Fax: (65) 6872 7000.(Please see location map below)

 

Programme Schedule

Chairperson: Dr. Bobby TEE and Dr. YIN Zhongchao

8:00 – 9:00 am	Registration
9:00 – 9:45 am	Plantation Management of Jatropha for Higher Productivity
	Dr. Bobby Tee
	Asiatic Center for Genome Technology Sdn Bhd, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
9:45 – 10:15 am	Controlled Pollination for Plant Breeding
	Dr. Yi Chengxin
	Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory Limited, Singapore
10:15 – 10:35 am	Tea break
10:35 – 11:05 am	Chemical Composition Evaluation of Jatropha curcas Seeds as Bio-diesel Feedstock
	Dr. Bui Thi Ngoc Ha
	Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory Limited, Singapore
11:05 – 11:35 am	Tissue Culture Propagation for Jatropha Plantation
	Dr. Shamsudeen Varisai Mohamed
	Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory Limited, Singapore
11:35 – 12:05 noon	Genetic Map construction of Jatropha curcas
	Dr. Wang Chunming
	Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory Limited, Singapore
12:05 – 13:30 pm	Lunch
13:30 – 14:00 pm	Construction of a Jatropha curcas Normalized cDNA Library and gene cloning of heterologous ACCase subunits
	Dr. Gu Ke Yu
	Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory Limited, Singapore
14:00 – 14:30 pm	Function Characterization of Plant Genes
	Dr. Ye Jian
	Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory Limited, Singapore
14:30 – 15:00 pm	Curcin genes in Jatropha curcas
	Dr. Wu Lifang
	Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory Limited, Singapore
15:00 – 15:30 pm	Tea break
15:30 – 16:30 pm	Concurrent facility tours*
* 15:30 – 16:00 pm	Group 1: Plant growth facilities	Group 2: Fatty acid/lipid profile analysis facilities
	Led by Dr. Yi Chengxin	Led by Dr. Bui Thi Ngoc Ha
* 16:00 – 16:30 pm	Group 1: Plant growth facilities	Group 2: Fatty acid/lipid profile analysis facilities
	Led by Dr. Yi Chengxin	Led by Dr. Bui Thi Ngoc Ha

 

Location Map