Affiliation: State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests-Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences,

Dr. Xifeng Wang received his PhD in Plant Pathology from the School of Graduated Students, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in 1998, where he studied the transmission mechanism of barley yellow dwarf viruses by cereal aphids. Since then, he has been a Principal Investigator and team leader at the State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. His research focuses on the transmission mechanisms of rice and wheat viruses by insect vectors (planthopper and aphids), epidemics and management of cereal viral diseases, and new virus identification in insects and plants. Now, he is a Councillor of International Society for Plant Pathology (ISPP) and Vice President of the Chinese Society of Plant Pathology (2010-2018).