Prof. Huo received his B.Sc. degree (2008) at Tianjin University, China. He obtained his M.Sc. degree (2010) and PhD degree (2014) at Saarland University, Germany, under the supervision of Prof. Rolf Müller. Then he joined Prof. Wilfred A. van der Donk's lab for three-year postdoctoral research at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA. In 2017 he returned to China as a“Qilu”Youth Scholar Professor at Shandong University. His research interests focus on genome mining and genetic engineering of microbial natural products, as well as biochemical studies on interesting biosynthetic tailoring enzymes.