Yong Long is an Associate Researcher at the Institute of Hydrobiology (IHB), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Wuhan, China. He graduated from Southwest Agricultural University in 2002, majoring in Freshwater Fisheries, and obtained an M.Sc. in Aquaculture from the same institution in 2005, and a Ph.D. in Genetics from IHB CAS in 2011. He stayed in the institute as an Assistant Researcher in 2011 and was promoted to Associate Researcher in 2013. He was a visiting scholar at the University of California, San Francisco, USA, from 2015 to 2016. His research interests focus on taking zebrafish, largemouth bass and tilapia as research objects, we will comprehensively apply modern genomics, bioinformatics and gene editing methods to study the genetic regulation mechanism of economic traits such as resistance to adversity and stress, to provide a theoretical basis for the cultivation of high-quality new varieties of economically important fish species.