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Dr Jianping Xu is a tenured Associate Professor at the Department of Biology at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. He teaches microbiology at an undergraduate level, and genetics and molecular ecology to postgraduate students. He has also worked in the Department of Microbiology at Duke University, and in Biology at the University of Toronto. Previously he worked as a Research Scientist at the Institute of Microbiology at the Academy of Science in China.

Dr Xu has edited two books, “Microbial Population Genetics” (in press) and the well-received “Evolutionary Genetics of Fungi”. He also co-authored the textbook “Essentials of Life Science”. In addition to this Dr Xu has contributed to 10 books and published over 50 articles on various aspects of cells and microbiology, especially fungi.

Dr Xu has an MSc and a PhD from the Department of Botany at the University of Toronto, and a Masters in Agriculture from the Nanjing Agricultural University. In 2007 he received the Overseas Young Scholar Collaborative Research Award and in 2005 he was awarded the Young Scientist Award from the Genetics Society of Canada. In 2002 he received the Premier’s Research Excellence Award.

Dr Xu’s research focuses on understanding all aspects of microbial evolution, including human fungal pathogens, drug resistance, metabolites, diploidy, life cycles, hybridization, and organelles, variation and virulence.

More information available at: http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/biology/faculty/xu/xu.htm

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