Prof. Dr. Xingguo Liang is a Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Marine Food Processing & Safety Control, College of Food Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University, majoring in fine chemicals. In 2001, he received his doctorate from the University of Tokyo, Japan, majoring in biotechnology, and carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Tokyo and Boston University in the United States. He is also a visiting professor at Nagoya University and vice-president of Qingdao Bioengineering Society. His main research interests include nucleic acid metabolism and nutrition, cyclization, function and application of single-stranded nucleic acid, preparation of stable left-handed helical DNA, nucleic acid amplification and detection, nucleic acid structure and function and nanotechnology, and DNA storage.