Lianhui Zhang is the Professor and of Microbiology and Plant pathology in South China Agricultural University, where he heads the Integrative Microbiology Research Center. His research interest is in microbial quorum sensing and pathogen-host chemical communication systems， and has published more than 150 papers with SCI citation over 8,000 times. He had been invited as an invited speaker in Asia-Pacific Biofilms 2021 and China Biofilms 2019 in Guangzhou China.