Session 1a: Keep Your Enemies Closer: Breakthroughs from Studying Host-pathogen Interactions
08:00 - 08:05 Opening Remark
- − Cathy Wu, Initiator and Secretary General, the Future Forum; Co-founder and Executive Chairwoman, New Alliance Consulting International
08:05 - 08:30 Keynote Speech
Breaking the disease triangle with the circadian clock
- − Xinnian Dong, Distinguished Professor, Duke University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Member, U.S. National Academy of Sciences; Member, Science Committee of the Future Science Prize
08:30 - 08:55 Keynote Speech
Protecting targets from enemy attack - crop genome editing for resistance to bacterial pathogens
- − Adam J. Bogdanove, Professor, Cornell University
08:55 - 09:20 Keynote Speech
Cross-Kingdom RNAi and small RNA trafficking between plants and fungal pathogens
- − Hailing Jin, Professor & Cy Mouradick Endowed Chair, University of California, Riverside
09:20 - 10:00 Panel
Moderator
- − Xiaofeng Cao, Principle Investigator at Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Panelists
- − Adam J. Bogdanove (see above)
- − Xinnian Dong (see above)
- − Hailing Jin (see above)
- − Yijun Qi, Tenured Professor, Tsinghua University; Changjiang Scholar; Director, Center for Plant Biology, Tsinghua University
