State Key Laboratory of freshwater ecology and Biotechnology

The State Key Laboratory of freshwater ecology and biotechnology was established in August 1987 by the Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The Institute is located in the eastern suburb of Wuchang District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, facing the vast East Lake and the beautiful Luojia mountain. It covers an area of 26 hectares, with complete living and working facilities, quiet environment and convenient transportation. It is an ideal garden for scientific research and academic pursuit. The laboratory was awarded the excellent State Key Laboratory in 1996 and 2001 respectively.

State Key Laboratory of freshwater ecology and Biotechnology

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The State Key Laboratory of freshwater ecology and biotechnology generally refers to the State Key Laboratory of freshwater ecology and Biotechnology (Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

The State Key Laboratory of freshwater ecology and biotechnology was established in August 1987 by the Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The Institute is located in the eastern suburb of Wuchang District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, facing the vast East Lake and the beautiful Luojia mountain. It covers an area of 26 hectares, with complete living and working facilities, quiet environment and convenient transportation. It is an ideal garden for scientific research and academic pursuit. The laboratory was awarded the excellent State Key Laboratory in 1996 and 2001 respectively.

Brief overview

State Key Laboratory of freshwater ecology and Biotechnology

Based on the Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, it was built in August 1987. The Institute is located in the eastern suburb of Wuchang District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, facing the vast East Lake and the beautiful Luojia mountain. It covers an area of 26 hectares, with complete living and working facilities, quiet environment and convenient transportation. It is an ideal garden for scientific research and academic pursuit. The laboratory was awarded the excellent State Key Laboratory in 1996 and 2001 respectively. Since June 1999, it has been included in the construction of the knowledge innovation project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Scientific research platform

The laboratory has basically completed the ecological technology research platform and molecular biology technology research platform, with more than 40 sets of large-scale instruments and equipment, with a total value of more than 20 million yuan. Each large-scale instrument is set up in each discipline group, and the supporting unit is equipped with special technical personnel to be responsible for the management (maintenance, recording, etc.), and the laboratory is given the operation fee. The fixed personnel, graduate students and mobile personnel (including guest researchers) of the laboratory are free of charge. If other personnel need to use it, they must make an appointment in advance. On the premise of not affecting the normal experiment of the laboratory, they can use it and charge a certain fee.

Organization management

The academic committee is the academic guidance organization of the laboratory. The vice chairman and members of the academic committee are appointed by the supporting units. The main tasks of the academic committee are to review the objectives, tasks and research directions of the laboratory, listen to the annual work report of the director of the laboratory, review the major academic activities of the laboratory, discuss and formulate the application guide for open research projects of the State Key Laboratory of freshwater ecology and biotechnology according to the national needs and the development direction of the laboratory, and approve open research projects. The "Application guide" and "open project application form" can be viewed and downloaded from the laboratory's website. The laboratory carries out the director responsibility system. At the same time, the leading group of the laboratory is composed of 3-4 deputy directors and 1 full-time secretary recommended by the director of the laboratory. Its task is to organize researchers, technicians, visiting researchers and postgraduates to carry out scientific research activities and academic exchanges, and coordinate the relationship between the laboratory and other laboratories. The laboratory as a whole is divided into four levels. One is the decision-making level composed of the director of the laboratory and the director of the laboratory academic committee, which makes decisions on the overall development of the laboratory. The second is the management, which is composed of the director, deputy director and Secretary of the laboratory. Its main responsibility is to give instructions to the decision-making level and carry out organization and coordination. The third is the implementation supervision layer composed of the laboratory director or the discipline team leader recommended by the academic committee. The responsibility of the discipline team leader is to employ researchers according to the needs of scientific research projects, determine the research plan, steps, division of labor and implementation plan, reasonably control the project funds, and be responsible for the implementation, acceptance and conclusion of the scientific research projects. The fourth is the executive level, which is composed of researchers, technicians, visitors and graduate students. They are the executors and completers of scientific research tasks.

According to the measures for the construction and management of state key laboratories and the measures for the management of open research laboratories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the laboratory has formulated the regulations for the management of state key laboratories of freshwater ecology and biotechnology, which include: General principles, organization and operation, fixed and mobile personnel, open projects, cooperation and opening, operation cost management, subsidies and performance awards, Annual report and archives preservation, etc. The instruments and equipment purchased, renewed and reformed by the laboratory are the important hardware support platform for scientific research. Advanced laboratory equipment provides standard, efficient and accurate research means for research work from data collection, analysis to comparison. For the management of the purchase, installation and debugging, computer training, operating procedures, use records, maintenance, scrapping and disposal of laboratory instruments and equipment, we have formulated the "management measures for instruments and equipment of the State Key Laboratory of freshwater ecology and Biotechnology" to maintain the instruments and equipment in a good state of operation and sharing, improve the use efficiency, and develop other functions of the instruments and equipment, so as to ensure the safety of the laboratory Efficient operation of state-owned assets.

Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences is the supporting unit of our laboratory. From the preparation, construction, completion and evaluation of the laboratory to its opening at home and abroad, it is always strictly required that the laboratory should be managed and operated in accordance with the "measures for the construction and management of State Key Laboratories" and "measures for the management of open research laboratories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences" formulated by the former State Planning Commission. First of all, the Institute level leadership attaches great importance to it, and the director of the laboratory is the director for four consecutive terms, which ensures that the laboratory meets the needs of human, material and working environment. Second, the laboratory should be positioned as an important research unit of the supporting unit, so as to make it relatively independent. At the same time, the laboratory is also a platform to show the research level of the supporting units. Third, support the laboratory to introduce and employ well-known scholars at home and abroad to carry out various forms of cooperative research. At the same time, according to the application, send young and middle-aged research backbones of the laboratory to overseas famous laboratories for visits, further studies, lectures, cooperative research and participation in international academic conferences. Fourth, we should give priority to the living treatment of the laboratory subject leaders, so that they can devote themselves to the scientific research work. Fifthly, we should take care of the visiting researchers who come to the research room from time to time. At the same time, the instruments and equipment of the laboratory will be added to the Wuhan large-scale instrument sharing network and the analysis and test center of Wuhan Branch of Chinese Academy of Sciences to improve the utilization efficiency of instruments. Seventh, priority should be given to the recruitment of young scholars and postdoctoral students.

research field

Strategic positioning and development goals

In view of the deteriorating water environment, research on water environment protection and sustainable utilization of aquatic biological resources is carried out to provide theoretical basis and technical support for the maintenance and improvement of water environment, protection of freshwater resources and development of freshwater fishery. At the same time, we should aim at the national needs and solve the national problems in combination with the scientific development goals. Adhere to the basic, forward-looking and strategic principles, comprehensively enhance the scientific and technological innovation leap ability of the laboratory, implement the "open, mobile, joint and competitive" operation mechanism in accordance with the construction and management measures of the State Key Laboratory, and build it into an efficient, open, international level and sustainable national freshwater ecology and biotechnology knowledge innovation center and laboratory R & D center. At the same time, through the continuous updating of personnel, we will further gather the scientific and technological elites, form a group of scientists representing the highest level of the country and having an important position in the world, and become a training base and independent innovation platform for senior scientific and technological innovation talents in the field of freshwater ecology and biotechnology.

The main research directions of the laboratory are as follows

To explore the effects of environmental factors, especially human activities, on the structure and function of freshwater ecosystem, reveal the mechanism and harm of water pollution, and put forward prevention and control measures, so as to provide a theoretical basis for the protection and sustainable utilization of freshwater resources; to develop biotechnology, and devote to the genetic and developmental biology research related to fish genetic engineering and cell engineering, To explore the establishment of a new, efficient, healthy and sustainable development of Fisheries model. Based on the strategic positioning, research direction and development goals, and around the development of related disciplines in the world and the major national demand for water pollution control and governance and sustainable development of fisheries, the laboratory has set up six research teams: Lake Ecology, Fishery Ecology, water quality management and ecotoxicology, fish genetic engineering, fish development and cell engineering, and algae biotechnology.

Project achievements

Focusing on the development trend and major national needs of the above-mentioned domestic and foreign related disciplines, the laboratory has undertaken 134 scientific research projects, including two 973 national major basic research projects, which are "Research on lake eutrophication process and mechanism of cyanobacteria bloom outbreak" (launched in 2002, 28 million yuan, chief scientist, researcher Liu Yongding) and "important cultured fish" Genetic and developmental basis of variety improvement (2)