Meng Li, from Canada, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia in Canada, where she acquired her M.Sc and Ph.D degrees. She has been working with Dr. Gurcharn Singh Brar and Dr. Guus Bakkeren on multiple research projects funded by The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Genome British Columbia and Mitacs. Her research activities have focused on wheat and rust genetics, especially on genomic and transcriptomic analysis to leaf rust, stripe rust and infected wheat host. As leading a 2-year joint project between University of British Columbia, Agriculture and Agri-food Canada and a local industry company, she has developed technologies to study the efficiencies and molecular mechanisms of fungicides on controlling wheat rust disease severity applicable to greenhouse and field. Now, she continues working on genomic analysis and marker-assisted breeding of Canadian wheat cultivars.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy in Botany, University of British Columbia
• Master of Science in Botany, University of British Columbia
• Bachelor’s in Biology, Peking University