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CURRICULUM VITAE
Professional Preparation:
Fudan University, Shanghai, China Major in Biophysics B. Sc. 1987-1991
Univ. of South Carolina-Columbia, SC Major in Molecular Biology Ph.D. 1992-1998
DuPont Crop Genetics, Wilmington, DE Biochemistry & Genetics Postdoc. 1998-2001
Appointments:
2008-present Associate Member and Principal Investigator, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO.
2007-present Director and Adjunct Associate Professor, National Key Laboratory of Tea Biotechnology, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei City, Anhui Province, China.
2002-present Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept. of Agronomy, University of Missouri-Columbia.
2001-2008 Assistant Member and Principal Investigator, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO.
1998 - 2001 Visiting Scientist/ Postdoc, Du Pont Agricultural Products. Metabolic engineering of isoflavone synthesis in soybean and non-legume plants.
1992 - 1998 Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Univ. of South Carolina. Ph.D. Dissertation title: "Attempting homologous  recombination in Arabidopsis by positive-negative selections".
1991 - 1992 Research Assistant, Dept. of Morphology, Inst. of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. National Natural Sciences Foundation (863): Studies of somatic embryogenesis and artificial seed of plant.

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