Genome science is integrated into a large variety of life science research, enabling plant scientists to gain insights on the cause of phenotypic variation, species evolution, crop domestication, etc. Understanding genome organization and evolution has been shown as an effective way to design strategies for gene discovery, functional studies, as well as for crop breeding. Indeed, the outcome of a genome project is not only the series of nucleotide sequences, but also the history, biology and possible applications that the sequence data tell us. This course aims to provide students an integrative view of plant genomics through the presentation of various genomics-related topics.

We invite genomic researchers to share with us the first-hand stories on plant genomics:
Lecturers (alphabetical order):
1. Chen, Ko-Hsuan 陳可萱 (Biodiversity Research Center, , Academia Sinica)
2. Chen, Pao-Yang陳柏仰 (Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica)
3. Huang, Yung-Fen黃永芬 (Department of Agronomy, National Taiwan University)
4. Kuo, Chih-Horng 郭志鴻 (Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica)
5. Lee, Cheng-Rue 李承叡 (Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University)
6. Lin, Shih-Shun林詩舜 (Institute of Biotechnology, National Taiwan University)
7. Lin, Ya-Ping 林亞平 (World Vegetable Center)