Wusheng Liu, PhD, is a research assistant professor of plant biotechnology and plant synthetic biology in the Dept. of Plant Sciences at the Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville (Email: wliu2@utk.edu). He received his BS and MS from Northeast Forestry Univ. in China, and his PhD from the Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, and then worked for C. Neal Stewart Jr. as a postdoc. His research focuses on genetic engineering, plant synthetic biology, and genome editing