Jian Hou is an associate professor in College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University. In 2001, he obtained a Ph.D degree in physiology at China Agricultural University, and since then he has worked at the university for more than 20 years. His major research focus is on epigenetics in mammalian embryos and applications of animal reproductive technologies in livestock production. He has published more than 30 scientific papers in international journals, lots of which investigated the epigenetic modifications of mammalian embryos, in particular the cloned embryos produced by somatic cell nuclear transfer. In recent years, he has been funded by more than 10 national research projects and was recruited as a major scientist in China Agriculture Research Systems from 2016 up to now.