Report theme: the past and present life of orchids
Speaker: Professor Liu Zhongjian
Time: 3:30 pm, May 19, 2019
Venue: Lecture Hall 716, College of forestry and landscape architecture
About the speaker:
Liu Zhongjian, professor level senior engineer, doctoral supervisor; executive director of Key Laboratory of orchid plant protection and utilization of State Forestry and grass administration of Fujian agricultural and Forestry University; vice president of orchid branch of Chinese society of Botany; part-time or visiting professor of Shenzhen Graduate School of Tsinghua University, South China Agricultural University and other universities; Shenzhen national leading talent, Pengcheng outstanding talent , special allowance expert of the State Council; special reviewer of nature series journals. Remarkable achievements have been made in the research of Orchidaceae and related subjects. It is mainly engaged in the research on the origin of angiosperms and the system and evolution of orchids, genomics, flowering regulation mechanism, etc., which promotes the technological progress in related fields and reserves resources for the development of new industries. As a well-known botanist in China, he enjoys a good academic reputation. His research results have been published in the top international science and technology magazine nature and its sub journals for many times. He has published 20 academic monographs in Chinese and foreign science and Technology Press. He has published more than 200 papers, 20 monographs, 12 invention patents and nearly 30 science and technology awards, including 2 papers in nature, 3 papers in Nature Genetics, 2 papers in nature communications, nature plants, PNAs, neuron and other important international academic journals.