Dong Qinghua, born in December 1966, Shouguang County, Shandong Province. In July 1992, graduated from department of horticulture, Beijing Agricultural University, major in pomology, with a master's degree of Agricultural Sciences. Now, deputy dean of plant science and technology college, associate professor, supervisor of postgraduate of Beijing University of Agriculture.

Main teaching courses: Leisure Gardening, Gardening Planning, Urban Agriculture Planning, Key Technology of Horticulture, General Horticulture and Scientific Paper Writing.

Main research direction: (1)fruit developmental molecular biology; (2) virus-free and rapid propagation system of new fruit varieties; (3) urban agriculture and leisure garden planning.

Working in the research: (1) the studies on microRNAs and its target gene function of strawberry fruit development; (2)study on the purity of strawberry cultivars and authenticity of detection technology; (3)virus-free and rapid propagation system establishment of three berries(strawberry, blueberry and raspberry);(4) agricultural theme park planning.

Representative results (SCI papers as the first author or corresponding author) :

(1)Deep sequencing discovery of novel and conserved microRNAs in strawberry. Physiologia Plantarum,2013，148（3）:387-396.

(2)Computational identification of MicroRNAs in strawberry expressed sequence tags and validation of their precise sequences by miR-RACE .Journal of Heredity, 2012,103 (2): 268-277.

(3)Characterization of SNPs in strawberry cultivars in  China，Genetics and Molecular Research,2013，12 (1): 639-645.

(4)Discovery and characterization of SNPs in Vitis vinifera and genetic assessment of some grapevine cultivars. Scientia Horticulturae，2010，125：233–238.

(5) Won the first prize in Beijing education and teaching achievements in 2012.

Communications: telephone: 010-80794570; email address: dongbac@126.com