Research Divisions

The Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota (AEPB), Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences lays a solid foundation for systematic and evolutionary biology. The research scopes include fauna and flora taxonomy, floristics and biogeography, the origins and phylogenies of animals and higher plants, population biology and conservation genetics. It plays an important role in international and domestic academic cooperation and exchange on plateau biology research. The laboratory was emerged from the laboratory of Qinghai-Tibet Biological Evolution and Adaptation, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, and is becoming a key laboratory of CAS in 2007.Currently the center has a total of 62 staff members. Among them are: 1 academicians, 19 professors, and 25 associate professors. There are 145 graduate students (including 4 postdotoral fellows).Facilities include a confocal microscope, a fluorescent microscope, automatic sequencers, etc.