Dr. Zhang Yongjiang, a graduate of Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG), has been recently informed of being supported by postdoctoral fellowships of Harvard University. He will go to Harvard University to conduct studies on “The importance of fog in maintaining tropical rainforests in SW China: physiological and hydrological basis for forest conservation and sustainable development” for one year.

Moreover, Dr. Hao Guangyou who received postdoctoral fellowships of Harvard University in 2010 will be financed by a postdoctoral fellowship of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard to study “Xylem hydraulic structure and cold resistance of gymnosperm”. His faculty host at Harvard is N. Michele Holbrook.

Prof. Cao Kunfang was supervisor of Dr. Zhang Yongjiang and Dr. Hao Guangyou for their studies at XTBG.

Hao Guangyou’s doctoral dissertation was on plant hydraulics of savanna-forest congeneric species in Central Brazil and coastal red mangroves in South Florida.

Zhang Yongjiang (left 1), Cao Kunfang (left2), Hao Guangyou (right 1), N. Michele Holbrook (right 2)