WANG Zengyu
Title: Professor and Associate Director
Address: Forage Improvement Division
          The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation
          2510 Sam Noble Parkway
          Ardmore, OK 73401, USA
Tel: 1-580-224 6830
Email: zywang@noble.org
Education Background:
    1991-1995  Post-doc   Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
    1988-1990  Ph.D.    China Agricultural University, China
    1981-1987  B.S. and M.S. Hebei Agricultural University, China 
Working Experiences:
    2010–present Professor and Associate Director, Forage Improvement Division,The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation.
    2004–2009  Associate Professor, Forage Improvement Division,The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation.
    1998–2004  Assistant Professor, Forage Improvement Division,The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation.
    1995–1998  Victorian Public Service Officer Band 4, Plant Biotechnology Center,Agriculture Victoria, Department of Natural Resources and Environment,Melbourne, Australia.
Research Interests:
Genetic improvement of forage, turf and bioenergy crops by transgenic approaches. The main aspects of my research program include: establishment of efficient genetic transformation systems; cloning of potentially useful genes and promoters; and generation and characterization of transgenic plants with improved agronomic characteristics. The target species include both grasses (switchgrass, fescue, ryegrass, maize, etc.) and legumes (alfalfa, white clover, Medicago truncatula, soybean). The target traits include forage quality, drought tolerance, biomass yield, biofuel production, phosphorus uptake, development and flowering.
Professional Activities：
Published more than 80 papers on biotechnological improvement of forage, turf and bioenergy crops.
Filed 10 patent applications on genetic improvement of grasses and legumes, 7 patents have been granted.
Associate Editor, In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology – Plant.
Editorial board, Frontiers in Plant Biotechnology.
Member of International Organizing Committee for the International Symposium of Molecular Breeding of Forage and Turf.
Member of the Program Committee for 2012 World Congress on In Vitro Biology.
Chairman of the Institutional Biosafety Committee.
Panel member or peer reviewer of several USDA, DOE and NSF programs.
Invited speaker at many national and international conferences.
Member of Society for In Vitro Biology, Crop Science Society of America and American Society of Plant Biologists.