报告人：蒋宁

　　报告题目：Selective Acquisition of Genomic Sequences by Pack-MULEs and its Impact on Gene Structure in Grasses

　　报告时间：2013年3月18日上午9：30-11：30

　　报告地点：综合楼4楼会议室

　　报告人简介：

　　蒋宁，美国密西根州立大学分子遗传学系副教授，在Nature，Science等国际顶级杂志上发表论文多篇，在转座子在真核基因组多样性中的作用及进化研究中取得了多项突破性的进展。

　　代表性论文：

　　Jiang, N., Ferguson, A. A., Slotkin, R. K., Lisch, D. 2011. Pack-Mutator-like transposable elements (Pack-MULEs) induce directional modification of genes through biased insertion and DNA acquisition. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 108:1537-1542.

　　Jiang, N., Gao, D., Xiao, H. and van der Knaap, E. 2009. Genome organization of the tomato sun locus and characterization of the unusual retrotransposon Rider. Plant J. 60:181-193.

　　Hanada, K., Vallejo, V., Nobuta, K., Slotkin, R.K., Lisch, D., Meyers, B.C., Shiu, S.H. and Jiang, N. 2009. The Functional Role of Pack-MULEs in Rice Inferred from Purifying Selection and Expression Profile. Plant Cell 21:25-38.

　　Xiao H., Jiang N., Schaffner E., Stockinger E.J., van der Knaap E. 2008. A retrotransposon-mediated gene duplication underlies morphological variation of tomato fruit. Science 319:1527-1530

　　Jiang, N., Bao, Z., Zhang, X., Eddy, S.R. and Wessler, S.R. 2004. Pack-MULE transposable elements mediate gene evolution in plants. Nature 431:569-573.

　　Jiang, N., Feschotte, C., Zhang, X., and Wessler, S.R. 2004. Using rice to understand the origin and amplification of MITEs. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 7:115-119.

　　Jiang, N., Bao, Z., Zhang, X., Hirochika, H., Eddy, S.R., McCouch, S.R. and Wessler, S.R. 2003. An active DNA transposon family in rice. Nature 421:163-167.

　　Jiang, N., Jordan, I.K. and Wessler, S.R. 2002. Dasheng and RIRE2: a non-autonomous LTR element and its putative autonomous partner in the rice genome. Plant Physiol. 130:1697-1705.

　　Jiang, N., Bao, Z., Temnykh, S., Cheng, Z., Jiang, J., Wing, R.A., McCouch, S.R. and Wessler, S.R.  2002. Dasheng: a recently amplified non-autonomous LTR element that is a major component of pericentromeric regions in rice. Genetics 161:1293-1305.

　　Feschotte, C., Jiang, N. and Wessler, S.R. 2002. Plant transposable elements: where genetics meets genomics. Nature Rev. Genet. 3:329-341.

　　Jiang, N. and Wessler, S.R. 2001. Insertion preference of maize and rice MITEs as revealed by the analysis of nested elements.  Plant Cell 13:2553-2564.