Prof. HAN Bin from Institute of Plant Physiology & Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (SIBS), CAS paid a visit toIHB on Dec. 9, 2014.

Prof. HAN Bin (also CAS academician) from Institute of Plant Physiology & Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (SIBS), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) paid a visit to Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IHB) on Dec. 9, 2014. During his visit, he gave an oral presentation with the title of “Unlocking rice’s diversity for functional genomics & domestication studies” for the audience. 

In his presentation, Prof. Han firstly described some methodological breakthrough on rice functional genomics: identification of rice whole genome recombination break points , based on which the construction of high resolution ‘bin’ genetic map, whole genome correlation analysis(Identification of location of agronomic traits gene by GWAS) and establishment of an integrated platform for important agronomic traits analysis and precisely location analysis of candidate genes.

Then he presented in detail the research methods and findings on domestication and origination of rice: systemly identification of rice genome domestication selection sites through large-scale sample collection, traits investigation and whole genome cluster analysis and discovery about the enigma of rice domestication and origination through provement that oryza sativa originated in the pearl river basin and produced indica through two-time evolution.

Prof. Han is the director of the National Center for Gene Research and vice president of SIBS. His area of expertise is rice genomics, population genetics, rice whole-genome correlation analysis and rice’s origination and domestication. As the leader of his team, he firstly carried out the precise sequence of rice’s chromosome 4, the analysis of centromeric sequence structure and successfully launched the analysis of rice’s whole genome complex traits correlation analysis based on whole genome sequence analysis. He won the second price of National Natural Science Price and now acts as the editorial board member of BMC Genomics, Plant Cell & Physiology, Mol Plant, Rice J and eLife. He was elected as academician of Chinese Academy of Science in 2013.