Professor Philip Brookes visit our institute

Release Time:2009-07-13 Big Small

Professor Philip Brookes, director of soil microbiology department, Rotham-sted Experimental Station famous British pedologist, one of the founders in the methodology of micro-biomass measurement visited our institute on 19-22 October, 2008. He gave a report entitled as “Soil organic matter and microbial biomass dynamics contribution to environmental change” on 20 October. Xingguo Han, the director of our institute and other 40 members attended the seminar. Prof. Brookes had a discussion in the field of soil-nitrogen- transformation related microbial process with Prof. Xudong Zhang and his group for matter circulation research. Prof Brookes highly evaluated the work done by the group.

 The Department of Microbiology, Rotham-sted Experomental Station, led by Prof P Brookes and the group in matter circulation, led by Prof. Xudong Zhang have cooperated in their work since 2003, shere their information and samples. To advance and deepen their cooperation, an agreement was got to co-hold an international seminar for Soil-matter- circulation related microbial process. They also exchanged ideas in exchange scholars and students and proposal for cooperative research program.