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Dr. Le Kang is Distinguished Professor of the Institute of Zoology (IOZ), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He was elected as member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011 and member of the Developing World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) in 2012. Dr. Kang is an expert in entomology and ecological genomics. His work integrates multiple approaches from molecular biology, physiology to behavior analysis to resolve the ecological questions in insect adaptation to environmental variation and stress. He has authored about 160 international journals’ papers, which were published in Science, PNAS, Nature Communications, PLoS Genetics, PLoS Pathogens, Genome Biology, Evolution, Molecular Ecology, Global Change Biology and so on. He has also been invited to write review articles for Annual Review of Entomology and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. As a leading scientist, Dr. Kang is Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Insect Science, Associate Editor-in-Chief of Protein & Cell and Zoological Research, and editorial board member of Journal of Insect Physiology, Current Opinion in Insect Science, Frontiers of Ecology and Evolution, and Science China Life Sciences.
Xiao-Ya Chen is Professor in Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was nominated as a CAS academician in 2005, TWAS member in 2008. Currently he serves as the director of Shanghai Chenshan Plant Science Research Center, President of Chinese Society for Plant Biology (CSPB), Editor-in-Chief of Science Bulletin. Dr. Chen gained his BSc at Nanjing University, China, and Ph.D. at Reading University, UK. He is interested in plant secondary metabolism, plant-insect interactions and trichome (including cotton fiber) development. He and colleagues have conducted in-depth study of terpene biosynthesis and regulation in cotton, Artemisia annua, Arabidopsis thaliana, and Salvia spp. He has hitherto more than 100 publications, the majority of which in prestigious journals, including Nature Biotechnology, Nature Communications, Plant Cell, Molecular Plant, and PLoS Genetics.
Rongxiang Fang, Senior Research Fellow of Institute of Microbiology, Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Member of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS). He has been engaged in basic and applied research in plant virology and plant biotechnology. Recently he is interested in the study of microbe-host interactions, including RNA silencing and suppression of RNA silencing, molecular mechanism of insect vectors in mediating plant diseases. He is the author of more than 150 manuscripts, which were published in academic journals such as Cell, Plant Cell, PNAS, PLoS Pathogens and Journal of Virology.
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Qian, W., Chen, X., Fang, R. et al. Manipulation of biotic signaling: a new theory for smarter pest control. Sci. China Life Sci. 60, 781–784 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-017-9148-x
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