About Junrong Liang’s work
Junrong Liang held a Croucher Visitorship at the Open University of Hong Kong from November 2007 to May 2008. At the time, Liang was based at Xiamen University.
Biography
LIANG Junrong received his Bachelor's and Doctoral degrees from the School of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Xiamen University in 1997 and 2002 respectively. Since 2002, he has been teaching at the School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University. He was a visiting scholar at the Open University of Hong Kong and a visiting researcher at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States in 2008-09. His research interests include marine diatom biochemistry and molecules. Liang has participated in research projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China "Molecular Regulation Mechanism of Silicon Metabolism in the Dormant Cell Formation and Germination of Marine Diatoms", and the National Natural Science Foundation of China "Research on Functional Genes Related to Silicon Absorption and Biosilicization of Pseudo-Micro Sea Chain Algae Based on Transcriptome Sequencing".