About Mi Ma’s work
Mi Ma held a Croucher Visitorship at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from October 1995 to April 1996. At the time, Ma was based at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Biography
Ma Mi received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Peking University in 1983 and 1986 respectively, and her Ph.D. from the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1994. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1995-96, a visiting scholar in 1996-97, and a visiting researcher at the City University of Hong Kong from 1998 to 2000. She is currently a researcher at the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Professor at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Ma Mi's research focuses on the discovery of functional genes from natural heavy metal hyper-enriched plants and model plant mutants by combining molecular biology and environmental biology technologies, and elucidating the molecular mechanism of heavy metal absorption, transport, accumulation and detoxification in plants, so as to provide a theoretical basis for remediating the environment polluted by heavy metals and developing safe food.