Dr. Jee Loon Foo received his Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry from the Australian National University in 2009. He had postdoctoral training in protein engineering and metabolic engineering at the Nanyang Technological University and the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests lie in the understanding and engineering of biological systems at the interface of chemistry and biology to confer novel functionalities. These include the construction of metabolic pathways in microbes for biosynthesizing valuable biochemicals, and the rewiring of metabolic flux via genome modification and synthetic genomics to alter the properties of organisms. He serves as an Assistant Editor for Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology and a reviewer for international journals such as ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, Bioresource Technology, Biotechnology Advances, Current Opinion in Biotechnology and Microbial Cell Factories.