After graduated from Peking University, Dr. Steve Mao obtained a Ph.D. in Cell Biology from UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. As a postdoctoral fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Harvard University, he focused his research on genome organization and single cell sequencing technologies, respectively. He worked as an Assistant, Associate, and Senior Scientific Editor in Cell for about five years before joining Science as a Senior Editor of molecular biology, biotechnology and synthetic biology. His areas of responsibility include DNA biology, RNA biology, transcription and epigenetics, nuclear and chromatin biology, ribosome biology, synthetic biology, and biotechnology development.