Prof. Dr. Jian Gao is an internationally reputed scientist with an illustrious professional career of spanning over thirty-four years and original contributions in the fields of plant genomics, molecular ecological physiology, and molecular breeding leading to the publication of more than 150 quality research articles and reviews, more than 10 chapters have been written for several books, including those published by FAO and edited five books. Her current area of research includes genome and transcriptome analyses in bamboo, mainly toward deciphering molecular mechanism of bamboo flowering and bamboo shoot fast growth. She has been honored with special allowance recipients of Anhui Provincial Government, Fellowship from DAAD-K. C. WONG, and won several awards by China Forestry Society, and national awards including the Ten million talents project of State Forestry Administration. She has served at prestigious positions in academia including as Dean of Forestry department in Anhui Agricultural University, Vice Director of Taiping experimental station, and Principal Scientist of ICBR. Recently, she has been awarded with the Women's model by the State Forestry Administration of China. She is also Principal Coordinator and chief scientist of the National Key R&D program of China.