Launch of Beijing Laboratory Bolsters China-UK Scientific Collaboration
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The Centre of Excellence for Plant and Microbial Science (CEPAMS), jointly established by China Academy of Sciences (CAS) and John Innes Centre (JIC, UK), officially launched in Beijing with its first laboratory open for research on November 2. CAS Vice-President Zhang Yaping and Martyn Roper, Minister and Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Beijing, attended the opening ceremony for CEPAMS.
![A lab of the Institute of Genetics and Development Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences [Chinagate.cn/Photo by Wang Zhenhong]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20161103/00016c42b41619852f1b01.jpg "A lab of the Institute of Genetics and Development Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences [Chinagate.cn/Photo by Wang Zhenhong]") |
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A lab of the Institute of Genetics and Development Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences [Chinagate.cn/Photo by Wang Zhenhong] |
The centre is a collaboration between the John Innes Centre and two CAS institutes, the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) and the Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology (SIPPE). CEPAMS brings together three world-leading laboratories from the UK and China to tackle global challenges of food security and sustainable health care, and nurture excellent science. Its transnational research team focuses on the improvement of food crops and the natural products of high-value, beneficial products from plants and microbes.
CEPAMS opens its first laboratory with appointment of Dr. Bai Yang, the first CEPAMS group leader, whose laboratory is housed within IGDB in Beijing. Dr. BAI worked for Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, before he joined the centre. He will focus his research on plant root-associated microbes and agricultural productivity.
Dr. Bai says it is a great honour to be the very first CEPAMS Group Leader. “I am looking forward to exploiting my unique position, as a joint CAS-JIC faculty member, to do some ground-breaking science and to further strengthen the UK-China scientific partnership.”
CEPAMS has three campuses located in Beijing, Shanghai, and Norwich respectively. And CEPAMS group leaders have the privilege to conduct their scientific research in JIC, to co-operate with JIC faculty, and to attend the internal academic meeting in JIC.
CEPAMS was established with funding from the CAS and the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), one of the UK’s seven Research Councils (RCUK). About 20 CAS-JIC collaborative projects have been launched by CEPAMS since 2014.
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