• Evaluate the feasibility of the project, design the experiments and prepare the quote proposal.• Act as project manager to oversee the process of the project. • Provide consultations and trouble shooting for obstacles met in processing projects, ranging high-throughput sequencing and sequencing.• Analyze and summarize the experiment results, draft the project report.• Actively involved in the market analysis and business development

Scientific writing. Coached new graduate students.

• Built site-directed mutagenesis of TAL effector genes in citrus canker causal bacterial strain Xanthomonas citri ssp. citri, which are the original of the popular biotechnology technique TALEN • Developed microarray hybridization of citrus plant following the infection of pathogens• Analyzed and annotated the high-throughput microarray expression data• Explored and validated TAL effector target genes in citrus by observing expressional change and recognizing unique DNA sequences• Created and transformed RNAi and expression constructs to silence or overexpress the target genes in citrus plant • Taught the graduate course of Field Plant Pathology

• Executed cloning of five rice resistance genes against rice blast pathogen Magnaporthe grisea• Transformed the resistance genes into blast susceptible rice variety mediated by Agrobacterium and tested their blast resistant abilities• Hybridized the transgenic lines transformed with different resistance genes in the field• Taught Bacteriology Lab course for undergraduate student

Researched on the alternative splicing of a rice WRKY gene through reverse transcription PCR

Performed molecular screening of bio-controlled Pseudomonas fluorescens strains from soil against pathogenic Pseudomonas spp.