Vision

The LPDB Graduate Program is to help the graduate students to develop personal skills both academically and morally. The students will learn principles of plant developmental biology and molecular biology, as well as essential lab skills to conduct the related research. The emphasis will be put on training the students to learn the most recentbreakthroughs and advanced lab techniques in the studies of rice reproductive development. We hope that master or Ph.D. students graduated from LPDB will be highly qualified and adaptive to conduct advanced studies in plant developmental biology, either inbasic theory or applied research; in China orinternationally.

Mission

Our mission is to train LPDB Graduate students to their full potentials in the following aspects:

1.Reading and understanding research articles in scientific journals

2.Developing creative and inventive thinking

3.Problem discovery, cause determination, and problem solving

4.Design research plans and execute

5.Writing research articles for publication in high impact scientific journals

6.Communicating and discussingresearchsubjects internationally

7.Using current media technologies to search for research information

8.Grasping required lab techniques and learning advanced technologies

9.Obtaining team work experiences

10.Developing leadership and managementskills