時(shí)　間：2018年6月21日（周四）15：00

地　點(diǎn)：武漢大學(xué)櫻頂老圖書館

主講人：魏輔文 中國科學(xué)院院士

題　目：大熊貓保護(hù)生物學(xué)研究

主講人簡介：

魏輔文，中國科學(xué)院動(dòng)物研究所研究員、中國科學(xué)院院士，保護(hù)生物學(xué)家。1984年和1987年在南充師范學(xué)院（現(xiàn)西華師范大學(xué)）分別獲得學(xué)士和碩士學(xué)位，1997年獲中國科學(xué)院動(dòng)物研究所博士學(xué)位, 2017年當(dāng)選為中國科學(xué)院院士。主要從事大熊貓、小熊貓等瀕危動(dòng)物保護(hù)生物學(xué)研究。率先將種群基因組學(xué)、宏基因組學(xué)、比較基因組學(xué)等新技術(shù)引入到大熊貓研究中，闡明了大熊貓的種群歷史、瀕危過程及演化潛力；揭示了大熊貓?jiān)谑承赞D(zhuǎn)換和特化歷程中如何在形態(tài)、行為、生理、遺傳和腸道微生物等方面產(chǎn)生適應(yīng)性演化的規(guī)律；闡明了棲息地破碎化導(dǎo)致大熊貓孤立小種群崩潰的機(jī)制，推動(dòng)了國家大熊貓放歸和棲息地廊道建設(shè)工程的實(shí)施。重要代表性研究成果分別發(fā)表在Science、Nature、Nature Genetics、PNAS、Current Biology、Molecular Biology and Evolution、Trends in Microbiology、 Ecology、Molecular Ecology、Functional Ecology、Conservation Biology、Biological Conservation、Conservation Letters等期刊上，得到Nature、Science等著名雜志和Discovery頻道、BBC、路透社等知名媒體廣泛報(bào)道和評述。兼任中華人民共和國瀕危物種科學(xué)委員會(huì)副主任、中國動(dòng)物學(xué)會(huì)副理事長、中國生態(tài)學(xué)會(huì)副理事長、中國獸類學(xué)會(huì)理事長。

Brief Introduction of Professor Fuwen Wei

Dr. Fuwen Wei obtained his Bachelor Degree in Biology in 1984 and his Master Degree in Zoology in 1987 from China West Normal University. He carried out his Ph.D. study from 1994 to 1997 and obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1997 from the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Since then, he has been working as a Principal Investigator in the Institute of Zoology, CAS and served as the deputy director of the Institute from 2008-2017. Since 2004, he has served as a wildlife conservation consultant for State Forestry Administration(focusing especially on giant pandas), and vice president of several professional societies such as the China Zoological Society and the China Ecological Society. Dr. Wei received the National Science Fund award for Distinguished Young Scholars from the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2001 and was elected as an Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017.

Dr. Wei’s research has focused on conservation biology of endangered animals, especially giant pandas. Using the giant panda as the conservation flagship species and the ideal model of adaptive evolution, he has made systematic and original scientific contributions in the field of conservation biology of endangered wildlife. He has performed pioneering work by applying genetic(e.g. noninvasive genetic sampling) and genomic techniques(e.g. population genomics and metagenomics) to assess the past, present and future of giant panda populations, infer their evolutionary and demographic processes, reveal their ecological, behavioral, physiological, genetic and gut microbiota adaptive mechanisms for feeding on their specialized bamboo diet, and propose targeted strategies for their long-term survival. His main research findings were published in Science, Nature, Nature Genetics, PNAS, Current Biology, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Ecology, Conservation Biology etc. In the light of these significant research achievements, he was invited to write review or perspective articles about the conservation genetics, conservation ecology, evolutionary conservation biology, population genomics and gut metagenomics of giant pandas by the journals Molecular Biology and Evolution, Molecular Ecology, Conservation Biology and Trends in Microbiology.