Yu-Liang Yang received his PhD in Pharmaceutical Science from Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan, under the supervision of Prof. Yang-Chang Wu. Currently, he is an associate research fellow and deputy director of the Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Dr Yang's research mainly focuses on revealing the functional roles of natural products in microbial interactions. His group incorporated imaging mass spectrometry, comparative metabolomics, genome/transcriptome mining, and synthetic biology approach as an integrated strategy to uncover metabolic communication in microbial interactions.