Mr WANG Gang and Ms YAN Juan successfully finish their thesis defense. Wang Gang’s research aims to understand how the pollinator-mediated  fig-fig wasp system facilitate the speciation and diversity of fig species. Yan Juan conducted a two year study to understand what is the machanism for the color change of a beautiful flowering plants of two Quisqualis spp. Profs Richard corlett, Gao Jiangyun, Yang Xiaodong, and Zhang Jiaolin of XTBG and two professors from KIB (Profs Li Shenghong, Lou Huairong) act as committee members for the defense.