Min Lin received a Master of Science in Biophysics and a Doctor of Agronomy from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (1985–1991). From 1993 to 1994, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biotechnology at the Pasteur Institute in France, where he conducted research on the cloning and expression of combined nitrogen fixation genes. From 1997 to 1998, he was a visiting scholar at the Plant Protection Institute of the Netherlands Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Wageningen, the Netherlands. He is currently a researcher at the Institute of Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He is currently the Vice President of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Biotechnology, Director of the Bio-Agriculture Branch of the Chinese Society of Bioengineering, and a member of the expert group of the National Key Research
and Development Program on Synthetic Biology. His main research interests include functional genomics and synthetic biology of nitrogen-fixing microorganisms associated with the rhizosphere of crops, as well as the development and utilization of special functional microbial gene resources.
Yongliang Yan obtained a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from China Agricultural University in 2005. From 2005 to
2008, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He has been a researcher at the Institute of Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences since 2017. He is a director of the Chinese Society of Microbiology, a director of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Biotechnology, and the vice president of
the Beijing Society of Microbiology. His research interests are associative nitrogen fixation; regulatory mechanism of nif genes; functional genomics; and synthetic biology.
Shijie Jiang is an Associate Professor at the College of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, China. He worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (2011–2017). He completed his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the School of Life Sciences, Sichuan
University in 2017. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Sichuan Society of Cell Biology, a member of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Biotechnology, and a member of the Chinese Society of Microbiology. His research interests include the utilization of microbial resources in special environments and enzyme engineering.
Yuhua Zhan obtained a Ph.D. in Microbiology from China Agricultural University in 2009. From 2009 to 2013, she conducted postdoctoral research at the Institute of Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. She has been a researcher at the Institute of Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences since 2023. She is a director of the Beijing Microbiology Society and a director of the Microbial Biotechnology Branch of the Chinese Agricultural Biotechnology Society. She is mainly engaged in research in the molecular genetics of nitrogen-fixing microorganisms, microbial non-coding RNA, gene expression regulation, etc.
Zhengfu Zhou received his Ph.D. in Science from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in 2011. Then, he entered the postdoctoral station of the Institute of Biotechnology, the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and researched the functional genomics of radiation-resistant microorganisms. The same year, he went to the United States
as a visiting scholar at the University of Arizona and researched the functional metabolites of radiation-resistant microorganisms. In 2015, he was selected as a Class D talent in the “Young Talent Program” of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. From 2015 to now, he has been an associate researcher at the Institute of Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Agricultural
Sciences. He is mainly engaged in the research of the functional genomics of extreme environment microorganisms and the molecular mechanism of microbial stress response.
Jin Wang graduated from the School of Life Sciences of Sichuan University in 2001 with a master’s degree in science and graduated from the Institute of Genetics of Fudan University in 2004 with a doctorate in science. She has been a researcher and doctoral supervisor at the Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences since 2010. She is
mainly engaged in the research of stress resistance gene isolation and the application of functional genes of extreme environment microorganisms in crop stress resistance and disease resistance.
