During his studies, Haojie Jin investigated the symbiotic interaction between leguminous plants and rhizobia. Biological nitrogen fixation is one of the most efficient ways to give crops the ability to thrive without using costly, artificial fertilizers. Haojie Jin's focus has been on exploiting natural variation and new sequencing-based methods for genetic analysis to identify plant genes that influence selection of symbiotic partners.

The PhD degree was completed at the Centre for Carbohydrate Signaling and Recognition, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Science and Technology, Aarhus University.

Time: Friday 25 July 2014 at 13.00
Place: Building 3130, Room 303, Conference room, INCUBA Science Park, Department of Molecularbiology and Genetics, Gustav Wieds Vej 10C, 8000 Aarhus C
Title of dissertation: Illumina re-sequencing; a method to pinpoint symbiotic QTLs in Lotus
Contact information: Haojie Jin, e-mail: haojie@mb.au.dk, tel.: +45 50272219
Members of the assessment committee:
Professor Donal M. O'Sullivan, School of Agriculature, Policy and Development, University of Reading, United Kingdom
Professor Søren Kjærsgaard Rasmussen, Department of Agriculture and Ecology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Associate professor Ernst-Martin Füchtbauer (chair), Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Denmark
Main supervisor:
Professor Jens Stougaard, CARB, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Denmark
Co-supervisor:
Dr. Stig U. Andersen, CARB, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Denmark
Language: The PhD dissertation will be defended in English.

The defence is public.
The dissertation will be available for reading at the Graduate School of Science and Technology/GSST, Ny Munkegade 120, building 1521, room 112, 8000 Aarhus C.