Dr. Myeong-Je Cho obtained a B.S. and M.S. in Agronomy from Seoul National University. He received his Ph.D. in Soybean Physiology and Biochemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1991 and carried out a postdoctoral study on Soybean Transformation/Molecular Biology at the same university. Later, he worked as a Specialist on Cereal Transformation and Gene Expression in the Plant and Microbial Biology Department at the University of California-Berkeley. In 2001, Myeong-Je joined a biotech company, Byotix, Inc. in Richmond, CA, as a cofounder and VP to lead the Plant Biotechnology and Genomics Programs. In 2004, he worked as a Research Scientist/Manager at DuPont-Pioneer for 11 years. Myeong-Je joined IGI in November 2016 and is currently the Director and PI of the Plant Genomics and Transformation Facility. He also serves as a Scientific Advisor at FarmHannong, Ltd., a LG company, and as an Adjunct Professor at Jeju National University, S. Korea. He has published over 70 papers/four book chapters regarding plant tissue culture/transformation, gene expression, gene isolation/characterization and genome editing.  He has 13 US patents issued and 11 pending.