On May 30th 2019, Prof. Yunyun Gong from the School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, visited Jiangsu University. She (Dr. Yunyun Gong) delivered an academic lecture entitled “Impact of individual and mixtures of mycotoxins and persistent organochloride pesticides on reproduction - in vitro investigations.” Prof. Huang Xingyi, Vice-dean of the School of Food and Biological Engineering (SFBE), Jiangsu University, hosted the lecture and performed the introduction of Dr. Yunyun Gong and her associate, Dr. Martin E. Kimanya from Tanzania. Some faculty members and Foreign –Sino students of the school (SFBE) attended the lecture. After the lecture, Prof. Gong and Dr. Martin visited our laboratory accompanied by Prof. Ma Haile.

Dr Yun Yun Gong is a professor in international food safety in the University of Leeds. She has a PhD degree in Food toxicology and started her research career at the University of Leeds in 2000. She has a strong research interest on dietary exposure to toxic chemicals (especially mycotoxins) and their impact on human health outcomes e.g. child stunting, cancer and reproductive health. More recently this is expanded to the detection and prevention of food born toxins exposure in high risk populations. Her other research interests include understanding the relationship between diet and cancer, and conducting food safety risk assessment at a global perspective. She collaborates with multi-disciplinary expertise from agriculture, plant science, health science and food safety policy makers. Her research was funded by the Bill and Gates Melinda Foundation, the Royal Society UK, the NIEHS in the US, etc. Dr Gong was a Scientific Visitor at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in 2013 and a working group member evaluating aflatoxin and human health for the WHO/IARC. She is a working group member for the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and an advisory role in China National Center for Food Safety and Risk Assessment (CFSA) on mycotoxin risk assessment.

(School of Food and Biological Engineering)