Prof. Dr. Wenjun Liu is an Academician and Research Scholar at the College of Food Science and Engineering, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, China, and is affiliated with the Key Laboratory of Dairy Biotechnology and Engineering, Ministry of Education, P.R. China. His primary research expertise lies in Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS), with a strong focus on lactic acid bacteria. He is actively engaged in the construction, evaluation, and innovative development of lactic acid bacteria germplasm resource libraries, contributing significantly to microbial biotechnology and food science. Prof. Liu also serves as an expert evaluator for talent projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology and key national R&D programs, and as a reviewer for the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He was an editorial board member of Microbiological Research