cultivating first-class innovative talents in microbiology based on National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology

Abstract:

Microbiology is a basic course of biological sciences, biotechnology, bioengineering, and other agriculture-related majors in agricultural colleges and universities, with the main teaching content of microorganisms and their life activities. Facing the major needs of the country and focusing on the frontiers of agricultural microbiology, the National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology (NKLAM) of Huazhong Agricultural University has been exploring and practicing the cultivation of innovative talents in microbiology with the support of high-level scientific research. The teachers, also the researchers of the NKLAM, transformed the discipline and research advantages into teaching resources for the standardized, systematic, and cutting-edge research training of students. The NKLAM has used the advantages of first-class disciplines to cultivate students’ interdisciplinary thinking and international cooperation programs to expand students’ global vision. Meanwhile, the NKLAM has strengthened students’ practical skills through production-education-research-learning cooperation and promoted students’ all-round development by carrying forward the cultural spirits of scientific research. In short, by taking various measures, the NKLAM has achieved remarkable effect in talent cultivation, fostering a large number of innovative talents in microbiology-related fields for the bio-industry and rural revitalization.