Dr Yi Zhang, Professor of Biotechnology at Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, will visit campus from March 25 - 30 to interact with students and faculty. Wuhan University is a site to which we have sent BRAVO! students and to which we would like to send future BRAVO! students. We are looking for student volunteers to host Dr. Zhnag by taking her to lunch or dinner and by showing her some of Tucson.

Dr. Zhang received her PhD in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in 2000 and returned to China to join the faculty of Wuhan University. Her research interests include viral RNA folding and regulation mechanisms and biology of alterative splicing, identification of functional RNAs residing in nuclear mRNA introns, and Group I ribozyme applications (therapeutics and drug design). The National Basic Research Program of China funds her work on the regulation of pre-mRNA alternative splicing. On a personal note, Dr. Zhang is married to a scientist and has three children (in China this is highly unusual). This is an excellent opportunity to interact with a well-respected, young scientist, who is interested in using active learning techniques in her classroom, and who would like to continue to host BRAVO! students in her lab. Please contact Carol (621-9348) if you are interested in helping with Dr. Zhang's visit.