June 1, 2012, Shi GuanMing, Ph.D. (Associate Professor), the United States University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, under the invitation of Professor Hu Ruifa, made a presentation entitled "An Analysis of Selectivity in the Productivity Evaluation of Biotechnology - An Application to Corn,” in the main building Room 317. Ma Ming, Head of the Department of Applied Economics, teacher Hou Gaolan and more than 20 graduate students participated in the report. Professor Hu Ruifa hosted the meeting.
　　Dr. Shi Guanming gave detailed report on the sample selection bias problem in transgenic technology research which failed to consider the impact of quality germplasm resources.
Speaker Profile:
　　Dr. Shi GuanMing graduated from the Department of International Finance, Fudan University, later received a Ph.D in agriculture and resource economics at the University of California at Berkeley. Now the Associate Professor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Agricultural and the Applied Economics. She is also a core member of the high-tech innovative enterprises research group of the University of Wisconsin School of Business. Her research focuses on applied microeconomics, industrial organization structure, competition and monopoly and its application of biotechnology and seed industry market research, intellectual property and technological innovation, and productivity and technology diffusion.