Kun Lu

Summary

Dr. Kun Lu is Professor at College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Southwest University (SWU), China. Prof. Lu’s research is in the fields of Molecular Genetics and Population Genetics in Brassica napus. He is particularly interested in unravelling the genetic and epigenetic basis and molecular mechanism underlying the establishment of high yield and harvest index through the integration of multiple types of omics data. His work is also involved in genomic data mining and database development. He regularly publishes in international journals and has served as an Editorial Board Member of PLOS ONE, PeerJ and Oil Crop Science, and reviewer for the NSFC, and for more than 20 international journals, including Plant Cell and Plant Biotechnology Journal. He has published more than 100 research articles in peer-review journals, including Nature Communications, Nucleic Acids Research, PNAS and Plant Biotechnology Journal, and won the Outstanding Young Teacher in Chongqing Award and Young Innovator Award of Oil Crop Branch of Corp Science Society.

Agricultural Science Bioinformatics Biotechnology Genetics Genomics Plant Science