Professor Bin Han was invited to give a lecture by professor Joachim Messing, the leader of the Waksman Institute and the Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, at Rutgers, The state University of New Jersey on January 18th, 2013. The report, called Sequencing-based Rice Functional Genomics and Domestication Studies, introduced that our laboratory focuses on the comparative and functional genomics of rice as a reference for species in the grass family and for translational breeding. Here, Dr. Joachim Messing is the fourth Director of the Waksman Institute of Microbiology, a University Professor of Molecular Biology, and the first holder of the Selman A. Waksman Chair in Molecular Genetics. 

(above) Professor Bin Han was giving a talk and answering questions.

(above) Professor Jo Messing and Bin Han.

(above) Waksman Institute of Micorbiology