Zhanyuan Zhang
Director
University of Missouri
Columbia
Biography
Dr. Zhanyuan J. Zhang was born in China. He got his bachelor and master degrees in the area of Plant Protection in China. He came to USA and started his Ph.D. program in the area of plant genetic engineering in January 1993 at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. His dissertation work focused on genetic transformation of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) and development of a novel approach for plant bacterial resistance. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1996. From 1996 to 1998 he worked as a post-doctoral research associate in the same University with emphasis on soybean transformation and down-regulation of soybean vegetative storage protein genes.
Research Interest
Progress in Three Areas of Transgenic Technologies