Application Guide of Opening Project

 The State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests (SKLBPI) is one of the most important laboratories on plant protection study in China. The laboratory is affiliated with Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. “Opening, Mobility, Union and Competition” are the goals of SKLBPI, where there are the cooperative, creative, active and initiative research scientists and teams with the sound reputation world-wide. SKLBPI warmly opens to domestic and abroad scientists.

SKLBPI research directions

      1    The mechanisms of the calamities caused by important crop diseases and the control technologies. The work includes biological features of pathogenic organisms, the mechanisms of pathogenicity, the dynamics of the pathogen populations, the ecological mechanisms of epidemics and causing calamity in large regions, the plant resistance, the population genetics and the molecular mechanisms of the interactions between plant and pathogenic organisms or vectors.

      2    The mechanisms of the calamities caused by important insect pests and the control technologies. The scientists target at  biological characteristics of important crop insect pests, the dynamics of insect populations and the cause of calamity, the behaviour of migration, proliferate and procreation, the technologies for sustainable control, the mechanisms of plant compensation, and the resistance inheritance, the mechanisms of pheromone communication of crop-insect pest-natural enemy and the molecular interaction.

      3    Monitoring and forecasting technology for important pest organisms. To utilize remote sensing, GIS and GPS, computer network information technology, physiological, biochemical and molecular biological technologies for monitoring  and forecasting  the occurrence and damage of main crop diseases and insect pests and proposing the tactics of management and establishing information system of main crop diseases and insect pests.

      4    Invasive alien species. The focus is on the biology of important invasive alien species, the genetic variation of the populations, the mechanism of causing calamity and the crucial control techniques.

      5    Search and utilization of important microbial germplasm resources for biological control. The main work includes the screening and the utilization of microbial germplasm resources with high efficacy, the structural and functional genomics of important microbes used for the control of insect pests, bioinformatics of the microbes, searching and utilization of novel functional genes, genetic modified plants and microbes with resistance to diseases and insect pests, the molecular mechanism of the interactions between active ingredients and the target organisms and the biology and ecology of natural enemies and the techniques of large scale artificial rearing and the release.

      6    Ecological safety of important genetically modified organisms. The interests are about the evaluation of the resistance efficacy and environment safety of the disease and insect pest resistant crops and microbes genetically modified, the monitoring, testing of transgenic components and the risk assessment.

The content of research projects for application must belong to the above areas, and with close relation to the current research projects.  Chinese and foreign scientists with doctoral degrees or with a title equal or equivalent to or above assistant professor engaging in the study of plant protection may propose an application.  The applicants should have a certain advanced academic level, a sound research basis in their applied areas, and their research plans must be feasible.

Applicants may ask for an application form SKLBPI, fill and print it by a computer.  Foreign applicants must send the copies of the application form (2 copies) with their curricula vitae and one recommendation letters (from a scientist in SKLBPI) before October 31 each year to SKLBPI. The electronic version must be sent by express mail or through E-mail. The applications will be evaluated by the Academic Committee of SKLBPI after the submission.  After approved by the director and chairman of Academic Committee of SKLBPI, the applicants are accepted as short-term visiting scientists. Research achievements, including published paper, patent and award, completed in SKLBPI should put SKLBPI’ as the first institution of the author and the second the applicant’s working institution. If research achievements including published paper, patent and award partly completed in SKLBPI, the author can decide the position of SKLBPI in the paper.

Please contact:

Dr. Jie Zhang , Dr. Meiguang Lu

State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests,

Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences,

No. 2 West Yuan- Ming-Yuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 10094, China

Tel: 0086-10-62815921

Fax: 0086-10-62894642

Email: jzhang@ippcaas.cn , mglu@ippcaas.cn