Mykola Borysyuk (Nikolai Borisjuk) is a professor at the School of Life Sciences of Huaiyin Normal University, China. He has graduated from the T. Shevchenko Kiev State University (Kiev, Ukraine), majoring in microbiology, and received his PhD in Molecular Biology in 1988. In 1990, he moved to Tuebingen University in Germany as a fellow of the A. von Humboldt foundation, and since then he has been working at various international research institutions in Germany, the USA, Australia, and China. He has published more than 50 research papers devoted to plant genome structure and evolution, plant genetic engineering, and stress resistance in prestigious scientific journals such as Nature Biotechnology, PNAS, Plant Physiology, and New Phytologist. He taught molecular biology and plant genetic engineering courses and supervised undergraduate and postgraduate students at the Kiev State University, Institute of Plant Genetics (Gatersleben, Germany), Rutgers University (New Brunswick, USA), Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, USA), and the University of Adelaide (Adelaide, Australia).