School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China ;
Wen Liu received his M.S., and Ph.D. from Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. He also worked as a Postdoc in Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis (2000-2001), University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Pharmacy (2001-2003). After that he was appointed as a Professor in Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2003-2025). Then as the chair professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2025-current). His research interests mainly focus on 1) biosynthesis of microbial natural products; 2) functional molecule-targeted technology and methodology of synthetic biology; and 3) effective biomanufacturing of antibiotic products.

School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China ;
Wenqing Chen received his Master degree from College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University in 2004; Ph.D. from School of Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2009. After obtaining Ph.D., he worked as a Postdoc in Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2009-2011), Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, in the laboratory of Prof. Yi Tang at University of California, Los Angeles (2013-2014). After that he was appointed as an associate Professor, and then Professor in School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University (2014-Current). His research interest mainly focuses on the studies of biosynthesis, physiological function and biological metabolism of important nucleoside functional molecules.

RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Wako, Japan ;
Takayoshi Awakawa received his B.S. from Agricultural department, The University of Tokyo in 2006, Ph.D. from Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, in 2011. After obtaining Ph.D., he worked as an Assistant Professor (2011-2017), Lecturer (2018-2019), and Associate Professor (2019-2022), and then was appointed as a team leader in RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (2022-Current). He also carried out postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Prof. Bradley S. Moore at UC San Diego, Scripps Institute of Oceanography (2014–2016) as a visiting scholar. His research interest mainly focuses on the engineered and co-factor derived natural product biosynthesis.

Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin, China ;
Min Xu received his B.S. from School of Bioengineering, East China University of Science and Technology in 2010, and Ph.D. from School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2017. After obtaining his Ph.D., he worked as a Postdoc fellow at Michael G. DeGroote Institute for In-fectious Disease Research, McMaster University (2017-2023), under the su-pervision of Prof. Gerard D. Wright and then was appointed as a professor at Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2023-Current). His group is mainly interested in: (1) microbial natural prod-ucts drug discovery and biomanufacturing; (2) biosynthesis, mode of action and resistance mechanisms of natural products; and (3) preparation of ‘un-natural’ natural products; to help tackle the antimicrobial resistance prob-lems.