Prof. Liang Wu and two postdocs Zhengrui Qin and Pingchuan Deng attended “the 12th congress of the international plant molecular biology” conference, which was held in Montpellier, France on August 5th-10th, 2018. During this conference, Dr. Qin and Dr. Deng exhibited posters entitled " Regulation of FT splicing by an endogenous cue in temperate grasses" and “Intron bridging interactions between gene expression and genetic complexity in plants”, respectively.

There were more than 1000 plant scientists, including professors, postdocs and students from Europe, America and Asia attended the conference. Prof. Wu talked a lot with several experts on plant molecular biology, and formed some initial collaborations with them.