Meng Anming

Meng Anming (Chinese: 孟安明; born July 22, 1963, in Dazhu County, Sichuan Province) is a Chinese developmental biologist. In 1983 he graduated and received a bachelor degree in agronomy from Southwest Agricultural University (now part of Southwest University), China, followed by working as a research assistant in rice breeding group of the National Rice Research Institute of China. He pursued graduate study from May 1987 to November 1990 under supervision of Dr. David T. Parkin, focusing on investigation of genetic variations in wild birds using DNA fingerprinting, in Department of Genetics, University of Nottingham, UK, and received his Ph.D. degree in July 1991. From November 1990 to November 1992, he did postdoctoral research, working on DNA fingerprinting of farm animals, in the Teaching and Research Group of Animal Biochemistry, College of Biology, Beijing Agricultural University (now China Agricultural University), China, and was then recruited there as associate professor.  In March 1996, he joined Dr. Shuo Lin’s lab as visiting scholar and started to work on zebrafish embryonic development at the Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Medical College of Georgia, USA. He was recruited as full professor in August 1998 by Department of Biological Science and Technology (now School of Life Sciences), Tsinghua University, China. He was also director of the Institute of Zoology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, from 2008 to 2012. In 2007 he was elected a member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and in 2008 a member of TWAS. Provided by Wikipedia