Dr. William B. Whitman from University of Georgia Visits Biofuels Institute of Jiangsu University

On June 25, 2013, Dr. William B. Whitman, professor of the University of Georgia, USA, made an academic visit to Biofuels Institute of Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, P. R. China. This visit was officially invited by Dr. jianzhong Sun and Dr. Weilan Shao from Biofuels Institute at Jiangsu University. Within one and half day’s visit, Dr. William toured the biofuels Institute of Jiangsu University and delivered an interesting and very impressive presentation titled as “Genome scale analysis of gene function in archaeon”. He also had a detailed discussion/workshop with the professionals and graduate students in this unit about a potential collaboration with the Biofuels Institute in some areas both sides are interested in. Dr. Whitman is an outstanding microbiologist and currently served as the head of the department of microbiology in University of Georgia, USA. He was elected as the fellow of American Academy of Microbiology, and the fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was also awarded several famous international awards such as Bergey’s Award. During the past 3 years, he published at least 30 papers in top journals such as Nature and PNAS.