Prof. Zhuliang Yang is a Chinese mycologist, a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, a recipient of the National May Day Labor Medal, a National Advanced Worker, an honorary fellow of the Mycological Society of America, and a researcher at the Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Zhuliang Yang obtained a bachelor's degree from Xiamen University in 1983; a master's degree from the Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 1990; and a doctoral degree from the University of Tubingen, Germany, in 1997. In 1998, he successively held the positions of associate researcher and researcher at the Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Zhuliang Yang mainly engages in research on the diversity and resource utilization of higher fungi.
Prof. Zhanhong Ma is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University. He received a bachelor's degree from the College of Agriculture, Ningxia University, in 1985 and a doctorate in Plant Pathology from China Agricultural University in 1997. From 1997 to 1999, he conducted postdoctoral research at the Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He joined China Agricultural University in 1999, was promoted to professor in 2004, and visited Iowa State University in the United States for academic research in 2002. He has successively held the positions of assistant professor at Ningxia University and associate professor at China Agricultural University. Currently, he serves as the head of the Laboratory of Plant Epidemiology and Macroscopic Plant Pathology. The main research directions are the epidemic mechanisms of wheat stripe rust and southern rust in corn, the development of a disease molecular detection and remote sensing monitoring technology system, and the establishment of a quantitative inversion model of disease index based on unmanned aerial vehicle hyperspectral images. His research achievements won the first Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award. He concurrently serves as a standing director of the Chinese Society of Plant Protection and a member of the International Committee on Plant Disease Epidemiology.
Dr. Yuanbing Wang is an associate researcher at the Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His main research areas include the diversity, classification, and phylogeny of fungi. His specific research directions include the development and protection of medicinal fungal resources. He obtained a bachelor's degree from North University of China in 2008, a master's degree from Yunnan University in 2012, and a doctorate from Yunnan University in 2016.
