Dr. Qin Xiong is an Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Nanjing Forestry University. She received her BS in Plant Protection from Yangzhou University (2009) and her PhD in Molecular Plant Pathology (2014) (jointly trained by the University of California, Riverside, and Nanjing Agricultural University). From June 2019 to July 2020, she travelled to Oregon State University, College of Forestry, to research biotechnology as a State-Sponsored Visiting Scholar. Her teaching disciplines include Biochemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Immunology, Foundations of Conservation, and Plant Genomics and Proteomics. Her research interests include plant–pathogen interactions, plant–microbiome interactions, and molecular detection of important forest quarantine pathogens.