Dr. Huaqi Pan currently serves as a Senior Research Fellow at the Shenyang Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE), Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he leads the Agricultural Microbiology and Synthetic Biotechnology Group. He earned his Ph.D. in Natural Medicinal Chemistry from Shenyang Pharmaceutical University in 2013, under the supervision of Professor Huiming Hua. His primary research focuses on the excavation and utilization of special microbial resources and their bioactive products. Key areas of his work include the following: 1) microbial diversity and the discovery of novel microbial resources, 2) lead compound discovery via genome mining and molecular networking, 3) biosynthesis of natural products and metabolic engineering, and 4) discovery and development of biopesticides.