Title: Microbial diversity and ecology 

Time: 4:30 pm, December 18, 2020 

Venue: N8T09

Introduction of Speaker:

Gehong Wei, Professor, College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University.  In 2014, he was appointed as the Changjiang Distinguished Professor of the Ministry of Education.  In 2012, he was awarded the “Science and Technology Innovation Leadership” by the “Ten Thousand Plan” of Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee.  In 2011, he was awarded the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund.  In 2002, he was awarded the National Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation.  He is also a member of the International Rhizobium and Agrobacterium Diversity and Classification Subcommittee, deputy director of the General Microbiology Committee of the Chinese Society of Microbiology, and deputy director of the Soil Science and Biochemistry Committee of the Chinese Soil Society.  In recent years, he has chaired the National Fund Key Project, the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund, the National Key Research and Development Program, and the National 863 Program.  More than 60 SCI papers have been published in authoritative journals such as Plant Soil, Microbiome, Molecular Ecology, Environ Sci Technol, Water Research, Soil Biol Biochem, Environ Microb, etc.  And one monograph has been published.  He won the first prize of the Shaanxi Provincial Science and Technology Award.