The BIOMERIT Research Centre at the Biosciences Institute, (BSI), UCC
recently hosted a visit by a group of Chinese Scientists from The
Institute of Molecular Genetics, Guangxi University, Nanning.
The Chinese delegation, led by Professor Jia-Xun Feng accompanied by
colleagues Professor Yong-Qian He and Mr Dong-Jie Tang, were visiting
UCC as part of the SFI-funded China-Ireland Research Collaboration
Program between the research groups of Dr Max Dow and Professor Fergal
O'Gara in the BIOMERIT Research Centre at UCC and Chinese research
groups led by Professor Yi-Ping Wang at Peking University, Beijing and
Professor Ji-Liang Tang at Guangxi University, Nanning.
During the visit to UCC, the delegation gave two research seminars on
their work on pathogenic interactions between microbes and plants, and
visited a number of research laboratories both within BSI and more
widely on campus.
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