Dr. Zhu Heqin
Professor
Institute of Cotton Research (ICR)
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)
Address:38th, Huanghe Road, Anyang, Henan, 455000, P.R. China
Phone: +86-372-2562280
Fax:  +86-372-2562280
E-mail: zhuhq@cricaas.com.cn
Website: www.cricaas.com.cn

Education Background
Zhu Heqin, received her BSc degree in Plant Protection (1986) from Henan Agricultural University, her MS degree in Plant Pathology (2003) from the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and her PhD in Plant Pathology (2013) from the Northwest A&F University.

Research Area
She was vice director of the Plant Protection Department of Institute of Cotton Research of CAAS and vice director of Environmental Safety of Transgenic Plants Supervision and Testing Center of Ministry of Agriculture (Anyang).

Her research interests include mechanism of cotton resistance, cotton disease integrated control, environmental safety of transgenic cotton, Genetic diversity analysis of cotton pathogens, molecular pathogenicity mechanism of Verticillium dahliae on cotton and the interaction between cotton and pathogens. She successively managed to be in charge of 13 projects, such as National Transgenic New Varieties Breeding Major Project, Agriculture Industry Research Project, Supporting Program, Ministry of Science and Technology Basic Project.

Publications
She has published 86 scientific papers, including 5 SCI papers. She published one book as chief-editor and 7 ones as compiler member. Dr Zhu won 3 provincial awards and 3 national invention patents.