Team Member

Yiping Qi is a professor at Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture at University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. His lab works on plant genome engineering and synthetic biology.  He is interested in developing and improving tools for editing plant genome, fine-tuning plant transcriptome, detecting plant pathogens and sensing environmental stresses.  Through collaboration with other scientists, his long-term goal is to conduct translational research for breeding and engineering better crops to reduce carbon emissions, and ensure global food and nutrition security.