Dr. Zhihua Liao received his PhD degree from Fudan University in 2004, supervised by Professor Kexuan Tang. As a full professor, he has been working in School of Life Sciences, Southwest University since the summer of 2004. His research interests include: 1) discovering the biosynthesis genes (key enzymes) and regulatory genes (transcription factors, kinases and etc) involved in the biosynthesis of plant natural products; 2) metabolic engineering of the biosynthetic pathways to produce high-value metabolites, such as terpenes and alkaloids; and 3) plant-based synthetic biology. He, as the corresponding author, has published more than 100 papers in international journals, such as Nature Communications, Metabolic Engineering, Molecular Plants, etc, and has obtained over 10 authorized patents and developed some new commercial plant varieties with high-yield natural products.