The World Food Prize

China - Peking University

 

PEKING UNIVERSITY

STUDENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
Flowering Food: Using Arabidopsis Thaliana to Understand Gene Expression and Mutations (2009)
Analyzing Different Aspects of the Arabidopsis Thaliana Plant (2008)
Developing a Regeneration Method for the Haworthia Comptoniana Plant (2007)
Cloning Genes to Determine Their Role in Embryogenesis (2006)
Cloning the Arabidopsis Gene (2005)
Cataloguing Phenotypic Traits and Determining Gene Function in Rice (2004)
The Salinity Tolerance of Arabidopsis Thaliana (2002)

Peking University (PKU) in Beijing, China has hosted seven high school interns since 2002.

Established in 1898, the PKU strives for improvements in teaching and research and the promotion of interaction among various disciplines.

The PKU carries out research and development in basic and applied sciences, social sciences and the humanities, and sciences of medicine, management, and education.

 

 

 

Interns at the PKU work alongside renowned international researchers and experts - like Dr. Dingming Kan, Dr. Hongya Gu, and Dr. Qu Lijia - in the field villages of Qu Zhou and PKU's research labs in Beijing.

The students also have the opportunity to travel around China with their host families and colleagues to see the Great Wall of China, the silk markets, the Temple of Heaven, Tiananmen Square, the Summer Palace, and the Olympic Stadium. 

 

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