At the invitation of Institute of Life Sciences, Prof. Changming Lu (PhD supervisor), executive of Genetic Engineering and GMO Biosafety Lab of Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences; deputy executive of Testing Center of Environmental Biosafety of Transgenic Oil Crop of MOA; the first second-class Outstanding talent of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, will visit Jiangsu University and is going to deliver an academic report, titled “Study of transgenic Brassica napus and the biosafety ”, at NO.3 conference room in Conference Center at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, June 13th, 2011. All the teachers and students are welcome to attend the report and are requested to arrive ten minutes earlier.

Prof. Changming Lu holds many appointments, including committee member of National Committee on Biosafety of Genetically Modified Organism of China and GMO Safety Testing Standards Committee of China; director of Biological Safety Association of China, Institute of Oil Crops of China, and Academic Committee of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences; director of Chinese Journal of Oil Crop Sciences and international journal GM CROPS.

The current research fields of Prof. Changming Lu cover genetic engineering of oil crops, environmental biosafety of transgenic of transgenic rape plants, testing of genetically modified products, interspecific hybridization and germplasm innovation of rape. In the last five years, Prof. Changming Lu has undertaken more than 30 research projects supported by various funding sources including National 863 plans, National 973 plans, National Natural Scientific Foundation, and Key Project of Genetically Modified Organisms Breeding. Prof. Changming Lu also published more than 80 papers in many academic journals at home and abroad, set six national standards, translated and published < bio-engineering principles>, developed Newly Released Rapeseed Variety Ganyou No. 15, genetically modified herbicide-tolerant Brassica napus varieties, and genetically modified low erucic acid rapeseed varieties.

Institute of Life Science
June 8th, 2011