Dongyou Liu, Ph.D., undertook veterinary science education at Hunan Agricultural University, China and postgraduate training at University of Melbourne, Australia. Over the past two decades, he has worked at several research and clinical laboratories in Australia and the United States of America, with focuses on molecular characterization and virulence determination of microbial pathogens such as ovine footrot bacterium (Dichelobacter nodosus), dermatophyte fungi (Trichophyton, Microsporum and Epidermophyton) and listeriae (Listeria spp.), as well as development of nucleic acid-based quality assurance models for security sensitive and emerging viral pathogens.

He is the author of > 50 original research and review articles in various international journals, the contributor of 165 book chapters, and the editor of “Handbook of Listeria monocytogenes” (۲۰۰۸), “Handbook of Nucleic Acid Purification” (2009), “Molecular Detection of Foodborne Pathogens” (2009), “Molecular Detection of Human Viral Pathogens” (2010), “Molecular Detection of Human Bacterial Pathogens” (2011), “Molecular Detection of Human Fungal Pathogens” (2011), “Molecular Detection of Human Parasitic Pathogens” (2012), “Manual of Security Sensitive Microbes and Toxins” (2014), and “Molecular Detection of Animal Viral Pathogens” (2016), which are published by CRC Press. He is also a co-editor for “Molecular Medical Microbiology 2^nd edition” (2014), which is released by Elsevier.