Kaitao Lai

Academic history

Doctor of Philopsophy (July 2010 - present)

School of Agriculture and Food Science, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

My PhD research interests involve analysing expression genes, and identifying genetic variations, such as genetic diversity and the assiociation of markers with important agronomic traits in Triticum aestivum (bread wheat).

Supervisor: Dave Edwards, Jacqueline Batley, Jiri Stiller

Master of Philosophy (Part-time study, terminated)

Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems, Griffith University, Logan, Queensland, Australia, 12/2007 to 2/2010

Research Topic: Lipreading Segmentation and Correlation between Lipreading and Speech

Supervisors: Dr Phillip Sheridan, Dr Alan Liew

Master of Information and Communication Technology

Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia，2/2005-9/2006

Research Topic: An Investigation of Motion Tracking Algorithms

Supervisor: Dr Phillip Sheridan

Master of Information Technology

University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia，3/2004-2/2005

Bachelor of Science in Applied Chemistry

Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China，9/1998-6/2002

Posts held

From 3/2010 to 6/2010

Research Assistant, Applied Bioinformatics Group, Australia Centre for Plant Functional Genomics(ACPFG), School of Land, Crop & Food Sciences, The University of Queensland

Participated in Brassica species genome alignment and comparative assembly.

From 12/2009 to 2/2010

Research Scholar, Applied Bioinformatics Group, Australia Centre for Plant Functional Genomics(ACPFG), School of Land, Crop & Food Sciences, The University of Queensland

Participated in Next-Generation DNA Sequencing (NGS) analyzing from Brassica species.

From 01/2009 to 03/2009

PeopleSoft Developer, Enterprise Applications Development, Information Technology Service, the University of Queensland

Participated in post Go-live development for SI-Net and MySI-Net these two ERP systems. Involved Perl programming on Ubuntu system.

From 09/2008 to 12/2008

Software Developer, Software Service Development Team, Information Technology Service, the University of Queensland

Participated in the project the UQ Bonus Scheme. Involved developing web application by Microsoft C#.Net and Oracle PL/SQL.

From 04/2008 to 08/2008

Java Developer (Upgrade Developer), Eyecon Pty Ltd, West End, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Participated in the SQL Server 2005 Upgrade Project and Weblogic 10 Upgrade Project. Involved developing new TSQL scripts, and migrating data from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005, and migrating game server application from WebLogic Server 7 to WebLogic Server 10, and developing WLST scripts.

From 02/2007 to 02/2008

PeopleSoft Developer, Technical and Development Team, PeopleSoft HE Upgrade Project, Business Systems Services, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Participated in the 2007-2008 PeopleSoft High Education Upgrade Project. Involved developing the Student Record, Student Finance, HR Payroll system in PeopleSoft 8.48 Application Designer, PeopleCode, SQR, XML publisher and Application Engine.

From 11/2005 to 01/2006

Email System Tester, Information and Communication Technology Services, Griffith University

Participated in the 2005-2006 student email expansion project and tested the latest-updated email system from view of user.

My PhD research interests involve analysing expression genes, and identifying genetic variations, such as genetic diversity and the assiociation of markers with important agronomic traits in Triticum aestivum (bread wheat). I have assembled wheat transcriptomes and identified SNPs by specific perl script, and built up the wheat autoSNPdb database. Currently, I am analysing experssion genes in Triticum aestivum.

Previously, I have developed the CMAP database for pulished Brassica genetic markers against chromosomes from Brassica rapa and CMAP database for genetic markers against wheat chromosome arm 7DS.

Publications

Journal articles

1. Kaitao Lai, Chris Duran, Paul J. Berkman, Michał T. Lorenc, Jiri Stiller, Sahana Manoli, Matthew Hayden, Kerrie Forrest, Delphine Fleury, Ute Baumann, Manuel Zander, Annaliese Mason, Jacqueline Batley, David Edwards Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Discovery from Wheat Next Generation Sequence Data. Plant Biotechnology Journal 2012, 10(6): 743–749.
2. Kaitao Lai, Michał Tadeusz Lorenc, David Edwards Genomic Databases for Crop Improvement. Agronomy 2012, 2(1):62-73.
3. Kaitao Lai, Paul J Berkman, Michał Tadeusz Lorenc, Christopher Duran, Lars Smits, Sahana Manoli, Jiri Stiller, David Edwards WheatGenome.info: An integrated database and portal for wheat genome information. Plant and Cell Physiology 2012, 53(2): e2.
4. Michał T. Lorenc, Satomi Hayashi, Jiri Stiller, Hong Lee, Sahana Manoli, Pradeep Ruperao, Paul Visendi, Paul J. Berkman, Kaitao Lai, Jacqueline Batley, David Edwards Discovery of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Complex Genomes Using SGSautoSNP. Biology 2012, Publish in progress.

1. Paul J. Berkman, Kaitao Lai, Michał T. Lorenc, David Edwards Next generation sequencing applications for wheat crop improvement. American Journal of Botany 2012, 99(2): 365-371.
2. Hong Lee, Kaitao Lai, Michał T. Lorenc, Mike Imelfort, Chris Duran Bioinformatics tools and databases for analysis of next-generation sequence data. Briefings in Functional Genomics 2012, 11(1): 12-24.
3. Paul J. Berkman, Adam Skarshewski, Sahana Manoli, Michał T. Lorenc, Jiri Stiller, Lars Smits, Kaitao Lai, Emma Campbell, Marie Kubaláková, Hana Šimková, Jacqueline Batley, Jaroslav Doležel, Pilar Hernandez, and David Edwards Sequencing wheat chromosome arm 7BS delimits the 7BS/4AL translocation and reveals homoeologous gene conservation. TAG Theoretical and Applied Genetics 2012 124(3): 423-432.
4. Paul J. Berkman, Adam Skarshewski, Michał T. Lorenc, Kaitao Lai, Chris Duran, Edmund Y.S. Ling, Jiri Stiller, Lars Smits, Michael Imelfort, Sahana Manoli, Megan McKenzie, Marie Kubaláková, Hana Šimková, Jacqueline Batley, Delphine Fleury, Jaroslav Doležel and David Edwards (2011) Sequencing and assembly of low copy and genic regions of isolated Triticum aestivum chromosome arm 7DS. Plant Biotechnol J 2011, 9(7), 768-775.
5. Daniel J Marshall, Alice Hayward, Dominic Eales, Michael Imelfort, Jiri Stiller, Paul J Berkman, Terry Clark, Megan McKenzie, Kaitao Lai, Chris Duran, Jacqueline Batley and Dave Edwards (2010) Targeted identification of genomic regions using TAGdb. Plant Methods 2010, 6: 19.

Contact

Address

Applied Bioinformatics Group

Rm S424, Bld 83

Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics (ACPFG)

School of Land, Crop & Food Sciences

The University of Queensland

Brisbane QLD 4072

AUSTRALIA

Phone

[+61] (0) 7 3346 7083

Email

k.lai1@uq.edu.au