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Brief Introduction of Disciplines in Institute of Life Sciences
Currently Institute of Life Sciences has been authorized to confer M.S. degree in discipline in Biology, which includes 5 secondary disciplines as follows:
1、Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
At present, there are 6 professors, 5 associate professors. Research in this discipline is in five major directions:
（1）Gene function and Proteomics
（2）Pathogenesis and control of pathogenic micro-organisms
（3）Genetic engineering and Protein engineering
（4）Molecular biology and transgenic crop
（5）Human disease and metabolic regulation of gene expression
2、Cell Biology
At present, there are 4 professors, 2 associate professors, 1 visiting professor and 1 adjunct professor. Research in this section includes five major directions:
（1）Intracellular material transportation and metabolism
（2）Stem cells and Cell differentiation
（3）DNA replication, damage and repair
（4）Signal transduction and gene regulation
（5）Virus and Cellular immunity
3、Genetics
At present, there are 5 professors, 6 associate professors in this genetics discipline, and five major research areas summarized below:
（1）Molecular genetics, evolution and breeding
（2）Molecular plant-microbe interactions and cross-kingdom signal transduction
（3）Genomics
（4）Medical genetics
（5）Global regulatory networks in prokaryotes
4、Microbiology
At present, there are 2 professors, 6 associate professors. Research in this discipline is in four major directions:
（1）Interactions between Viruses, other pathogenic microbes and their hosts
（2）Molecular Virology
（3）Microbial Resources and Environmental Microbiology
（4）Food Microbiology
5、Physiology
At present, there are 3 professors, 3 associate professors. Research in this discipline is in two major directions:
（1）Cell signaling and regulation
（2）Integrated Physiology