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Wenying Zhuang (July 27, 1948) is a Chinese mycologist known for her contributions to the study on species diversity and phylogeny of Ascomycetes (1). == Biography == Wenying Zhuang was born and raised in Beijing, China. She is the daughter of Qiaosheng Zhuang, a wheat breeder and academician of the Chinese Academy of Science (2). Wenying studied Plant Pathology in Department of Agronomy at the Shanxi Agricultural College (now Shanxi Agricultural University) from 1973 to 1975, smd then entered Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), where she received a Master of Science degree in Mycology in 1985 She continued graduate study in Mycology at Cornell University, earning a Ph.D in 1987, under Richard P. Korf. (3). In 1975, Wenying started to work as a lecturer at the Shanxi Agriculture University for three years. Then, she was appointed as an assistant professor at the Institute of Microbiology Mycology Division of the CAS. After she received her Ph.D, she went back to China and continued her academic career on mycology in the same laboratory in the Institute of Microbiology. She worked as postdoctoral research fellow in Cornell University from July 1990 to January 1991. She spent the rest of her career (1991 to present) working at the Systematic Mycology and Lichenology Laboratory, of the Institute of Microbiology, CAS (now upgraded as National Key Laboratory of Mycology (4). She currently serves as the director of Systematic Mycology and Lichenology Laboratory, Institute of Microbiology, CAS for two terms. In 2009, she was elected as a CAS Academiciana. She currently serves as Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Editorial Committee of Cryptogamic Flora of China, and am Editorial Board Member of the international mycological journals ''Fungal Diversity'', ''Mycotaxon'', and ''Phytotaxa.'' She is Honorary Member of Mycological Society of America, and Executive Committee Member of the International Mycological Association (3, 4). On October 19, 2010, Wenying was elected as Third World Academy Society (TWAS) Academician in the 21st annual conference in Hyderabad City, India. In this conference, 400 peoples from 40 countries attended (4). As a professor in CAS, she has supervised seven doctoral students and two master students. (4). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wenying Zhuang」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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