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May 29, 2018
Professor Max Bergoin from Université Montpellier 2 came to our Institute for academic exchange

From May 20 to 23,2018, Dr. Max Bergoin, a visiting professor of Jiangsu University and tenured professors of University of Montpellier 2, France, were invited to the Institute of Life Sciences for an exchange visiting. On the afternoon of the 22nd, Professor Qin Yao, the academic leader of virus and functional microorganism research group of the institute, and all the faculties and students participated in the discussion in Conference Room 604. Professor Bergoin gave a lecture to all researchers and students of the research group about the research and development status of Insect Densovirus. Four students of the group also reported the progress of their researches in English and discussed the related topics with Professor Bergoin. On the 23th, Prof. Bergoin and Prof. Yao Qin jointly discussed the specific experimental plan for the research on the Bombyx mori bidensovirus and put forward valuable research ideas and viewpoints. Prof. Bergoun also personally guided the young researchers of the group for the experimental operation on the silkworm infection clone transfection.

Professor Max Bergoin is an internationally renowned insect virus and pathologist who has made outstanding contributions in the fields of genome structure, transcription and translation mechanisms of parvoviruses, especially densoviruses, and the use of densvoriuses as carriers of transgenic insects. While he is the first expert to report the densovirus in the world. Furthermore, he has organized and served as the chairman of international conferences on many occasions.

During the visiting, Professor Bergoin also visited the library of UJS and laboratory of the Institute. Ling ping Zhuthe secretary of the party's general branch of the institute also introduced the current situation of life science research in Jiangsu University and expressed her desire to build a cooperative relationship in the future, hoping to jointly promote the forefront of biological science, especially in the insect virology research.

Tao Luo