About Heping Shi’s work
Based at South China Normal University, Heping Shi held a Croucher Visitorship at Hong Kong Institute of Education from October 2007 to March 2008.
Biography
Shi Heping graduated from the Department of Biology of Hunan Normal University with a Bachelor's degree in 1987, and obtained a Master's degree in Plant Physiology from the Department of Biology of Sun Yat-sen University in 1990, and worked at Hunan Medical University from 1990-93. He graduated from the Department of Biology of South China Normal University with a Ph.D. degree in 1996, and stayed in the School of Life Sciences and the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Development and Bioengineering. In 2000-02, he was funded by a postdoctoral fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in Germany to conduct postdoctoral research on the expression of the gene activity of the key enzyme gene in the secondary metabolism of the medicinal plant Digitalis lanata at the School of Pharmaceutical Biology of Martin-Luther Universitaet Halle/Wittenberg University in Germany. Shi's main research areas include the genetic transformation of plants by Agrobacterium rhizogenesis and the production of hairy roots or the biotransformation of medicinal components, the study of environmental pollution using "bioremediation" (heavy metals) of hairy roots and their regenerated plants, and the regulation of plant growth and development.