Dr. Hou-Ling Wang

Hou-ling Wang is an associate professor of Botany at Beijing Forestry University. He obtained a bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. in agriculture from Beijing Forestry University in 2011, 2014, and 2018, respectively. He took part in the National Publicly Funded Joint Training Program at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis (USA) from 2015 to 2017 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Advanced Innovation Center for Molecular Design Breeding of Forest Trees, Beijing Forestry University from 2018 to 2021. He served as a lecturer and master’s supervisor at the School of Biological Science and Technology, Beijing Forestry University from July 2021 to December 2022 and became associate professor in January 2023. He is secretary of the National Innovation Alliance, and guest editorial board member and reviewer of international journals such as Forests and Frontiers in Genetics. His research topics include the development and application of efficient gene editing technology for major fast-growing tree species, the biological basis of trees’ balanced growth and adversity adaptability, and molecular regulatory mechanisms of yellowing and senescence of tree leaves. He participates in the key research and development projects of the “14th Five-Year Plan” and has chaired and participated in many research projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.