Yinyue Deng is now a professor of Sun Yat-sen University in China. He studied at the Department of Microbiology at the Nankai University from 1997 to 2004 and obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees. He then obtained a PhD degree from the Department of Biological Sciences at the National University of Singapore in 2010. His major research interests focus on microbial quorum sensing, intracellular nucleotide second messenger and antibacterial drugs, etc. In the past 5 years, he published more than 30 research papers as corresponding author in journals such as Nature Communications, PNAS, Cell Reports, Cell Death and Differentiation, ISME J, PLOS Pathogens. He has also hosted several research projects in China.