Hong Ma
Full Professor
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Fudan University
China
Biography
Male, born in 1960, Ph.D., professor. 1978-1979 Department of Biology, University of Science and Technology of China, 1983 Ph.D. in Biology and Biochemistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA, PhD in Biology, MIT in 1988, USA. 1988-1990 California State Institute of Technology engaged in postdoctoral research from 1990 to 1998 in the United States Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory independent PI engaged in plant molecular genetics and developmental biology research work, 1998-2008 years as Pennsylvania State University associate professor / Professor of plant reproductive and development, comparative genomics, molecular evolutionary biology and other research work, in July 2008 Ren Fudan University School of life science professor / Dean. In December 2008, he served as the first director of Institute of Plant Science of Fudan University and director of the State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering in 2012.
Research Interest
With molecular genetics, genomics and evolutionary biology, and bioinformatics and other means to study flower developmental molecular mechanism and evolution, male fertility molecular regulation, meiosis gene function, gene family evolution and its function, gene duplication And the evolution of species.
Publications
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Wang, Y., Cheng, Z., Huang, J., Hong, Y., Gong, Z., Copenhaver, G., Ma, H.* (2012). The DNA replication factor RFC1 gene is required for interference-sensitive meiotic crossover in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLoS Genet. 8: e1003039.