Dr. Bai-Xiong Chen completed PhD studies in Microbiology at South China Agricultural University and is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Bioengineering, Zunyi Medical University. In addition to conducting postdoctoral research in food science at South China Agricultural University and publishing over 21 papers in various journals, he also served as a Visiting Scholar at Boston University and recently led an NSFC-funded project (National Natural Science Foundation of China) and a Guangdong Provincial Department of Education Young Innovative Talents project. He serves as a Council Member of the Cordyceps industry branch of the MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CHINA. His teaching disciplines include serving as the course leader for undergraduate biochemistry and postgraduate synthetic biology, and his research interests include the genome editing and molecular breeding of edible and medicinal macrofungi, as well as the synthetic biology of valuable natural products.