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Chapter 161 Don’t call me senior brother, you are much better than me
Ning Chen felt that when he was studying chemistry, he also quietly improved his subject ability in biology.

"Yes, there is indeed a very close connection between the two subjects of biology and chemistry. Some people say that the essence of biology is chemistry. This statement is somewhat absolute, but at least we can think that the foundation of biology is chemistry. One of them is chemistry..."

After the two chatted about professional issues for a while, Gao Hongliang introduced his current research direction.

"In fact, the research direction of biometallurgy is mainly carried out by teachers and students majoring in metallurgy. Their focus is on metallurgy. In my research, the focus is on the microorganisms themselves and the entire process. The various chemical changes involved."

As a professor of biology, Gao Hongliang is definitely better at biology and chemistry, while the research part of engineering is just an extension of biology and chemistry.

After a lively chat, the two had a good impression of each other.

Ning Chen thinks that what is special about Gao Hongliang is that in addition to his strong professional ability in biology itself, his level of chemistry is also very high, and he basically has the ability to be a professor in the chemistry department.

Ning Chen likes to be in contact with professors with comprehensive abilities, so that he can improve his abilities in all aspects.

Gao Hongliang also admired Ning Chen's abilities. After all, Ning Chen's attainments in materials science and mathematics even surpassed many professor-level figures in this field.

To achieve such an achievement at this age, Ning Chen's future is limitless.

Gao Hongliang did not expect Ning Chen to produce any outstanding results during his internship in the laboratory. It was an affirmation of himself that his project could be favored by someone of Ning Chen's level.

If Ning Chen can win awards such as the Nobel Prize or the Fields Medal in the future, then Ning Chen's internship experience with Gao Hongliang will also be an experience worth remembering.

The day after meeting Gao Hongliang, Ning Chen came to Gao Hongliang's laboratory to participate in the internship of the project.

The experimental project that Ning Chen participated in mainly focused on the improvement technology of mineral leaching microorganisms.

In this research topic, there are many directions for improvement, including physical improvement, chemical improvement, biological improvement, etc.

Before the experiment started, Gao Hongliang explained some experimental research methods to Ning Chen, as well as the precautions for various experiments.

"Ning Chen, our current research on this experiment is mainly divided into these three directions.

The first direction is physical improvement, which uses light, point, heat, magnetism and other methods to increase the frequency of biological gene breakthroughs, and select positive mutant strains to be cultivated as improved strains.

The second direction is chemical improvement, by adding various metal ions, surface catalysts, etc. to the leaching system to improve the activity of the bacteria and their oxidation ability.

The third direction is biological improvement, which will use methods such as genetic recombination, systems biology technology, ribosome engineering, and epigenetic modification.

My suggestion is that you can first choose one direction to focus on. Of course, as long as you have enough time, you can also consider these directions at the same time. "

Ning Chen is naturally interested in all these directions, but even if Ning Chen wants to take care of these directions at the same time, he must do it one by one.

Ning Chen thought for a while and decided to focus on the direction of chemical improvement first.

Although based on Ning Chen's current ability, physical improvement should be Ning Chen's best field, but after all, Ning Chen now wants to improve the subject level of chemistry instead of rushing to achieve some results.

Thinking of this, Ning Chen said:

"Professor Gao, then I will choose the direction of chemical improvement first."

"Yes, yes. Dr. Tong Chen's main research is the chemical improvement of mineral leaching microorganisms. You can do experiments with him first."

After Gao Hongliang explained something to a student, the student walked towards Ning Chen.

"Ning Chen, hello, my name is Tong Chen, I am a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Biology at Yanda."

"Hello, Senior Brother Tong."

In terms of grade, Tong Chen is probably two or three grades higher than Ning Chen, and Tong Chen is several years older than Ning Chen. Ning Chen calls Tong Chen "Senior Brother Tong", which is considered a very normal title.

But after hearing this title, Tong Chen quickly waved his hand and said:
"Don't call me senior brother, just call me by my name. Compared with you, I'm far behind."

Tong Chen has known about Ning Chen for a long time. Ever since Ning Chen won the prize in the autumn competition, Tong Chen has paid great attention to Ning Chen.Until later, Ning Chen published three consecutive papers in the Journal of the American Mathematical Society to solve Qiu Chengtong's conjecture, and published several blockbuster papers in Nature, leading the world in the research field of iron-based superconductors.

Even most of the teachers at Yan University could not achieve such a level of achievement. How could Tong Chen dare to call himself Ning Chen's senior brother.

Seeing that Tong Chen was determined not to accept the title of senior brother, Ning Chen chose to respect Tong Chen's idea and directly addressed him by his first name.

After getting along for a period of time, Ning Chen and Tong Chen gradually became familiar with each other.

According to Tong Chen himself, before studying for a Ph.D., Tong Chen did not study biology.

Tong Chen's undergraduate and master's degrees were both studied in the Department of Chemistry at Yanda University. However, because of some concerns about the future employment situation of this major, Tong Chen had the idea of ​​​​changing his major.

After all, chemistry is known as one of the four major majors, but changing majors at this stage is not an easy task.

But later Tong Chen learned that Gao Hongliang's research direction was also related to chemistry. After some exchanges, Tong Chen successfully became Gao Hongliang's doctoral student, and his wish to change his major was realized.

After hearing Tong Chen's experiences, Ning Chen couldn't help but said:

"So, you jumped from one tiankeng major to another?"

Because the major known as the four major tiankeng is "biochemical environmental materials", and the "bio" in it refers to biology.

"Hey, there's nothing we can do about it. It's good to be able to jump out of a pit. I feel that the experimental environment here is much better than my previous laboratory."

What Tong Chen said was indeed true. Ning Chen had been to various laboratories, and the experimental environment at Gao Hongliang was relatively good.

"Actually, the so-called four major tiankeng majors are not as exaggerated as they say. The key is to see whether you can make results in your own research field..."

"Hey, I can't compete with you. If I remember correctly, you have published five papers in "Nature", right? But the two of us are also quite destined, and together we have four major sinkholes. Majors directly account for three.”

Ning Chen couldn't help laughing when he heard this, and wondered whether he should major in environmental studies and form a Tiankeng group with Tong Chen.

……

After a period of laboratory internship, Ning Chen's biology subject level was successfully upgraded to Lv1, and his chemistry subject level was very close to Lv2.

Among them, Tong Chen provided great help to Ning Chen in accumulating subject experience.

As a former chemistry major, Tong Chen, like Gao Hongliang, is good at both chemistry and biology.

Although Tong Chen would not explain to Ning Chen all the time, just staying by Tong Chen's side and watching every move of Tong Chen doing experiments was enough for Ning Chen to learn a lot from Tong Chen.

Of course, this is also due to Ning Chen's very powerful brain, which makes Ning Chen's learning ability reach a very terrifying level.

Finally, on this day, Ning Chen's chemistry experience had accumulated to 999 points.

This means that Ning Chen can upgrade his chemistry subject level to Lv1 by gaining 2 more point of subject experience.

However, thinking about how Qi Wan almost thought she was going to faint during the last physical upgrade, Ning Chen decided to go back to the dormitory to upgrade his level.

After returning to the dormitory, Ning Chen no longer relied on normal methods to gain subject experience, because even a little experience may not be accumulated before it can be completed.

Thinking of this, Ning Chen said silently in his mind:
"System, use 1 point of subject experience and add it to chemistry."

There was still a lot of subject experience that Ning Chen had been rewarded by completing various system tasks that he had not used, so he chose to directly use 1 point of subject experience to add points.

[Points have been added to the host, and the host’s chemistry subject level has been upgraded to Lv2]

(End of this chapter)