In 1981, under the auspices of Professors Zhang Zuoren, Lang Suo, Du Nanshan, Zhou Benxiang, Qian Guozhen, Yan Jiqiong, Zhou Shaoci, etc., and with the approval of the State Council, the first batch of zoology, plant physiology, physiology, and ecology institutes were established Master's degree, doctoral degree authorization point and postdoctoral mobile station in biology. Now it has developed into a first-level doctoral program in biology, which can recruit doctoral students in 8 majors: botany, zoology, aquatic zoology, physiology, ecology, biochemistry and molecular biology, biomedicine, and genomics, plus biology. Master students in 10 majors in Medical Engineering and Curriculum and Instruction Theory.
In recent years, the college has accelerated the pace of discipline and faculty construction, introduced talents from home and abroad, and successively established the Institute of Brain Functional Genomics, the Institute of Wildlife and Epidemiology, the Institute of Life Medicine, the Institute of Chemistry and Institute of Molecular Biology and Shanghai Cell Signaling Network Research Technology Platform. There are currently 1 key laboratory of the Ministry of Education, 2 national key disciplines, and 1 Shanghai key discipline. The college currently has 111 on-the-job teachers, including 26 professors, 27 associate professors (deputy senior professors), and 26 lecturers (engineers). , 60 teachers have doctorate degrees. Among them, there are young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions from the Ministry of Education, outstanding cross-century talents from the Ministry of Education, outstanding subject leaders in Shanghai, famous teachers in Shanghai, and youth science and technology stars in Shanghai, etc.
Since 2000, our institute has received approximately 51.7511 million yuan in scientific research funding, undertaken a total of 304 scientific research projects, published 964 papers, and applied for more than 40 invention patents. Significant progress has been made in basic and applied research in the fields of zoology, botany, ecology, medicinal phytochemistry, neurobiology, biomedicine and other fields. "Skin Anti-Aging Natural Activator" won the Silver Award at the 6th National Invention Exhibition and the Special Honor Award at the 83rd French International Invention Exhibition; "Golden Throat Throat Treasure" won the Gold Award at the Southeast Asia Medical and Health Care Expo; "GSF Special Food Products for Diabetes" "Won the gold medal at the 5th Shanghai "Four New Products" Expo; "Research on the Edible Value of Golden Ear - Golden Ear Pure" won the gold medal at the 5th Shanghai Science and Technology Expo; "Changbai Mountain Food and Drug Natural Resources (Bilberry)" The "In-depth Utilization Research and Development" project won the "First Prize for Excellent Exhibits in the Chinese University Exhibition Area at the Seventh Shanghai International Industrial Expo" issued by the Shanghai International Industrial Expo Education System Exhibition Organizing Committee; "The Nutrition and Development of Chinese Erioche Crab" Its "Research and Development of Environmentally Friendly Full-price Feed" project won the first prize of the Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award in 2005; its "Research on the Classification and Geographical Distribution of Liverwort Plants" project won the first prize of the Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education's 2007 Higher Education Science and Technology Awards. .
The college has always attached great importance to undergraduate education, guided by broad caliber, solid foundation, emphasis on practice, and high quality, based on the principle of basic requirements plus demand selection, focusing on undergraduate ability cultivation, and encouraging students' personality development. The college has a first-class undergraduate experimental teaching center with a laboratory area of ??4,300 square meters. It not only meets the needs of regular teaching, but also provides advanced precision instruments and funding for independent scientific research activities of college students. The funding coverage of college student scientific research funds reaches as much as 100% of current students. 80. Students have a strong atmosphere for scientific research, and their scientific and technological achievements have won successive awards. They have won the first prize of the Shanghai "Sun Island" Cup, the first and third prizes of the national "Challenge Cup", and the annual "Daxia Cup" student extracurricular scientific and technological works at the school level. Many people have won awards in the competition, and excellent scientific research papers have been published in various professional journals.
The college has established botany and zoology field practice bases in Zhejiang West Tianmu Mountain Nature Reserve and Zhejiang Tiantong Forest Park; it has established a teacher education practice base with the Shanghai Experimental Demonstration High School, and has hired famous middle school teachers. He is a part-time tutor for normal students; the institute's reference room has a collection of more than 40,000 volumes, and more than 150 Chinese journals and more than 120 foreign journals are currently being subscribed; the institute's herbarium has an extremely rich collection of rare animal specimens and plant specimens from southeast China.
The college currently recruits undergraduate students in two major categories: normal education and non-normal education. Among them, normal students are trained for free in accordance with relevant national policies. After graduation, they are engaged in biological science teaching and management of basic education.
Non-normal students are enrolled under the "Biological Science and Technology" category and enter the school to study two years of basic courses. After that, they enter the biological science or biotechnology major to continue their studies according to the students' wishes. Since the founding of the school, the Department of Biology has trained more than 4,000 undergraduates and about 600 master's and doctoral students. After graduation, students mainly go to universities, middle schools, scientific research institutions, publishing houses, pharmaceutical and biological products companies, and various industries. Work in level agencies and other units.