A Symposium on the Frontiers of Biological Sciences was held from August 18 to 20 in Shanghai. The participants were promising young stars in the field at CAS, as most of them are winners of prestigious programs for young talents in China: the CAS Bairen (or 100 talents) Program or National Funds for Outstanding Young Scientists of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Among the 100 top-notch young scientists presented at the three-day seminar were overseas scholars including ZHONG Weimin from Yale University, YANG Jian from Columbia University and YANG Zhenbiao from University of California at Riverside. They gave key-note speeches and held hot discussions with the participants on frontier issues in molecular biology, plant molecular biology, neuroscience and nutrition, medication disease.
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