Jian Liu received the B.S. degree in biotechnology from Yantai University, China, in 2003, the M.Sc. degree in genetics from Nanjing Agriculture University, China, in 2007, and the Ph.D. degree in microbial and enzymatic engineering from INSA-Toulouse, France, in 2015. From 2015 to 2017, he was appointed as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Toulouse White Biotechnology, France. Since June 2018, he has been a Lecturer with the Shandong Key Laboratory of Biophysics, Dezhou University (DZU), China. His research interests include microbiology, microbiome, plant disease, and biotechnology.