Yaxiong Song received a B.Sc. degree and an M.Sc. degree from Dalian University of Technology in 2013 and 2016, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Tennessee in 2022. He has been a Lecturer in the School of Medicine at Nankai University since January 2023. His research interests mainly focus on applying bacteriophages in food safety and researching the mechanism of foodborne pathogens resisting bacteriophages.