Feng Xue is a professor at the College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University. He received his Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine from the School of Veterinary Medicine, Yangzhou University, in 2000 and earned a Ph.D.in Preventive Veterinary Medicine at the same university in 2007. His current research areas include the etiology, bacterial pathogenesis, and bacterial to host interaction mechanism, development of new diagnostics and diagnostic techniques and prevention and control of zoonosis, and food safety control.