Dr. Jong Hyun Ham is a professor at the Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center. He earned, from Korea University, his B.S. in Agricultural Biology and M.S. in Plant Pathology in 1989 and 1991, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. in Plant Pathology from Cornell University in 1999. From 1998 to 2007, he took positions as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Ohio State University. Moreover, he is a member of the American Phytopathological Society.