创新奖获奖人 钟伯坚

钟伯坚，南京师范大学生命科学学院教授、博士生导师、院长，国家优秀青年基金和江苏省“攀登项目”获得者。2007年获中国地质大学（武汉）理学学士学位，2010年获复旦大学硕士学位，2014年获新西兰梅西大学博士学位。2014年10月起任南京师范大学教授，现任院长。长期从事植物进化基因组学与适应性进化研究，聚焦绿色植物起源、登陆与多样化过程，在Nature Communications、Current Biology等期刊发表多篇论文。获国家优秀青年科学基金、吴征镒植物学奖创新奖、江苏省青年科技奖、卫志明青年创新奖，入选江苏省“青蓝工程”中青年学术带头人及“六大人才高峰”高层次人才计划。

兼任中国植物学会理事、植物分类与系统进化专业委员会副主任、江苏省植物学会副理事长，担任Journal of Systematics and Evolution和Journal of Molecular Evolution副主编及JIPB编委。主持国家自然科学基金、江苏省攀登项目等，多次受邀主讲“重建植物生命之树”、“植物复杂信号调控网络起源与演化”等学术报告。

钟伯坚教授，长期从事植物环境适应性及进化基因组学研究，建立了早期绿色植物生命之树的系统发育框架，揭示了绿色植物起源演化与地球大气环境演变的耦合关系，阐释了绿藻适应复杂环境的分子基础。研究构建的跨尺度整合分析范式，为解决绿色植物重要类群间的亲缘关系及关键性状的起源等问题提供了可借鉴框架；耦合分子钟定年与古气候演变的分析策略，为解析生物地球化学循环关键转折期的绿色植物适应性辐射机制建立新基准。这些成果革新了分子系统学的传统研究路径，不仅解决了绿色植物演化中的关键难题，更为理解生命与环境协同演化的根本规律提供了研究新范式。

Zhong Bojian‌ is a professor, doctoral supervisor, and dean at the School of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University. He is a recipient of the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars and Jiangsu's "Climbing Project." He earned his Bachelor of Science from China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) in 2007, a Master's degree from Fudan University in 2010, and a Ph.D. from Massey University, New Zealand, in 2014. Since October 2014, he has served as a professor at Nanjing Normal University and is currently the dean. His long-term research focuses on plant evolutionary genomics and adaptive evolution, particularly on the origin, colonization, and diversification of green plants. He has published multiple papers in journals such as Nature Communications and Current Biology.

He has been awarded the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars, the Wu Zhengyi Award for Innovation in Botany, the Jiangsu Youth Science and Technology Award, and the Wei Zhiming Youth Innovation Award. He has also been selected as an academic leader in Jiangsu's "Qinglan Project" and a high-level talent in the "Six Talent Peaks" program.

Zhong Bojian also holds concurrent positions as a director of the Botanical Society of China, deputy director of the Committee on Plant Taxonomy and Systematic Evolution, and vice chairman of the Jiangsu Botanical Society. He serves as an associate editor for Journal of Systematics and Evolution and Journal of Molecular Evolution, and an editorial board member for JIPB. He has presided over national and provincial research projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Jiangsu's "Climbing Project." He has been frequently invited to deliver academic lectures on topics such as "Reconstructing the Tree of Life for Plants" and "Origins and Evolution of Plant Complex Signal Regulatory Networks."

‌Research Contributions:‌
Professor Zhong Bojian has long been engaged in the study of plant environmental adaptation and evolutionary genomics. He has established a phylogenetic framework for the early tree of life of green plants, revealing the coupling relationship between the origin and evolution of green plants and the evolution of Earth's atmospheric environment. His work has elucidated the molecular basis of green algae adapting to complex environments. The cross-scale integrated analytical framework developed in his research provides a reference for resolving the phylogenetic relationships among major green plant groups and the origins of key traits. By coupling molecular clock dating with paleoclimate evolution analysis, his strategies have set new benchmarks for deciphering the mechanisms of adaptive radiation in green plants during critical turning points in biogeochemical cycles. These achievements have revolutionized traditional approaches in molecular systematics, not only solving key puzzles in green plant evolution but also establishing a new paradigm for understanding the fundamental laws of co-evolution between life and the environment.