Prof. Dr. Bao-Rong Lu is the Director of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Fudan University. He received his Ph.D. from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in 1993 and his master's degree from Sichuan Agricultural University in 1986. He was promoted to associate professor at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in December 1994 and researcher at the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences in January 1996. He was appointed distinguished professor and doctoral supervisor at Fudan University in May 2000. He is engaged in the systematic and evolutionary biology, population genetics, conservation genetics and ecology of wild relatives of Triticeae, Oryza and Glycine. In recent years, he has mainly studied the molecular evolution, genetic diversity and transgenic biosafety of plants, especially the impact of hybridization-introgression (gene drift) on plant fitness, evolutionary potential and ecology.