Invited by Prof. Yang, Professor Robert G (Bob) Gilbert visited our group on May 24th，2013. He gave a lecture called “Understanding starch and glycogen nanoparticle structure: new directions in human health”。

Professor Robert G (Bob) Gilbert is a Research Professor at the University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia). His research program centres on the relations between starch and glycogen structure (both being highly branched glucose polymers) and nutrition, especially diabetes and obesity. He also has interests in polymerization in disperse media, including emulsion polymerization.