Prof. Ningjia He is a Secondary Professor at the School of Biotechnology, Southwest University. She completed her PhD studies in Sericulture at the Southwest Agricultural University, and has been awarded the First Top Ten Youth Science and Technology Award of Chongqing Municipality. She led the China Mulberry Genome Project in 2013 and has published over 80 papers in various journals. Her research topics mainly include: genetics, plant development, stress, plant, silkworm, and mulberry.