On May 15th, Bonaventura Francesco Luisi---a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO),an internationally renowned structural biologist and biochemist, a professor of University of Cambridge and Dean William Gabriel---an internationally renowned plant pathologist,a member of the American Society of Plant Pathology (APS Fellow) and a professor of University of Florida visited Qingdao Agricultural University(QAU) and both of them were employed  as  specially-appointed professors. Yuan Yongbing,vice president of QAU,awarded them with certificates of employment. Zheng Dan, Director of the International Cooperation and Exchange Division of QAU, presided over the appointment ceremony,and the relevant responsible persons of the Personnel Department and the College of Phytomedicine attended it.

Yuan Yongbing congratulated two professors for being special professors of QAU, and said that their participation will play a positive roll in the construction of international faculty and the further improvement of construction of high-level scientific research teams.It will also be of great importance to the discipline construction and globalization of education. Yuan Yongbing wished the two professors a happy work&life time when they were in QAU, and expressed his hope of establishing a good interactive relationship with the teachers and students as soon as possible,effectively promoting the talents cultivating and scientific research development.

Bonaventura Francesco Luisi---a professor of University of Cambridge, a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and an internationally renowned structural biologist and biochemist. Dean William Gabriel---a professor of University of Florida, a internationally renowned plant pathologist and a member of the American Society of Plant Pathology (APS Fellow).