Prof. Dr. Runmao Lin is a Senior Associate Professor and Doctoral and Master's supervisor at the Department of Plant Protection, School of Tropical Agriculture and Forestry, Hainan University. He has worked in the Biotechnology Research Group of BGI, the Rice Research Institute of Sichuan Agricultural University, and the Vegetable and Flower Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, mainly focusing on genomics and computational biology, pathogen-host interaction, and biological control research. He obtained a Master's degree in Agronomy from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in 2015 and a PhD in Science from Beijing Normal University in 2018. He was once rated as an E-class talent at Hainan Free Trade Port. To explore how microorganisms adapt to plant hosts and activate host immune responses, as well as the coevolution between microorganisms and hosts, he conducted the following research: (1) microbial genomes; (2) single-cell transcriptome; (3) micr
Prof. Dr. Tong Liu is a Professor, Doctoral supervisor, Vice Dean, and Department Head
at the Hainan University, College of Plant Protection. In addition, he is also a leading talent in Hainan Province, the director of the Hainan Green Agricultural Biopharmaceutical Creation Engineering Research Center, the vice chairman of the National Agricultural Microbiology Technology and Industry Alliance, the leader of the plant pathology discipline, and the leader of the Microecology and Control Team for Important Tropical Crop Diseases. He received a PhD at the Shanghai Jiaotong University, majoring in biomedical engineering, from 2009 to 2014. After obtaining the Ph.D. degree, he entered the University of Hawai for Postdoctoral research. He mainly engages in the exploration of biocontrol microbial resources, the mechanism and development of functional molecules (shuttle miRNA and activator proteins), and other related work. His research focuses on the resource mining and genomic evolution analysis of Trichoderma, th