Dr. Gilles Aumont, head of International Scientific Partnerships of the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), visited BIG on April 20, 2011.
A genome sequence of Chinese ginseng (Panax ginseng) has been revealed, announced in a press conference in Beijing on March 4, 2011.
Beijing Institute of Genomics won the Genome Valley Excellence Award in BioAsia 2011 Conference on February 22, 2011.
Cuban scientist Prof. Vicente Vérez-Bencomo, director of the Center for Synthetic Antigens, University of Havana, visited BIG on November 22, 2010.
Beijing Institute of Genomics signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement on the ginseng genome research in Changchun on November 11, 2010.
Russian scientist Prof. Eugene Vysotski, from Institute of Biophysics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, visited Beijing Institute of Genomics (BIG) on November 1, 2010.