Dr. Haihua Liang is a professor in the School of Medicine at the Southern University of Science and Technology. He earned his BSc from JiangXi Agricultural University in 2003 and his PhD from Northwest University in 2009. He worked with Chuan He at The University of Chicago from 2011 to 2014. Prior to SUSTech, he was a full professor in Department of Life Sciences at Northwest University. Dr. Liang's research focuses on microbial functional genomics and the interactions between pathogen and phage. He is an associate editor of Microbial cell factories and Microorganisms.