Prof. Myunggi Baik is currently a professor at the Department of Agricultural Biotechnology at Seoul National University, Republic of Korea, starting in 2013. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Seoul National University and his doctoral degree in animal science from North Dakota State University, USA. He worked at NIH, USA, as a postdoctorate from 1991 to 1992 and as a professor at Chonnam National University from 1991 to 2013. He took a sabbatical at Michigan State University from 2005 to 2007. His major is in ruminant nutrition and physiology at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Professor Baik’s major research interests are molecular studies on the production of high-quality beef and the improvement of cattle productivity, animal welfare and stress mitigation, the mitigation of methane production, and rumen microbiomes and metagenomics.