Prof. Dr. Jong-Seong Jeon is a distinguished professor at the Plant Functional Genomics Lab within the Graduate School of Green-Bio Science, Kyung Hee University. He earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees and Ph.D. in Biology from Seoul National University. After completing his academic training, he pursued postdoctoral research at POSTECH and the University of California. Davis. Prof. Jeon also serves as the President of The Botanical Society of Korea and is the director of the Brain Korea 21-Four Project. At the Plant Functional Genomics Lab, his mission is to enhance plant productivity and immunity, focusing on the development of 'super rice' with improved yield, creating novel rice varieties with enhanced nutritional value, and establishing broad-spectrum resistance to rice pathogens. His research also explores the signaling networks involved in rice innate immunity.