Meet the editors

Vincenzo Neri has held numerous positions at the University of Foggia, Italy, including full professor, director of the Division of General Surgery, Residency School of General Surgery, and the Department of Surgical Sciences, and president of the Course of Degree of Medicine and Surgery. He is now retired. Dr. Neri graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 1970 and completed postgraduate training in General Surgery in 1975 and in Emergency

Surgery in 1979 at the University of Bari, Italy. He received an MEd in University Health Science Pedagogy from the University Paris-Nord Bobigny in 1995. His clinical and research interest is hepatobiliary pancreatic surgery, with a focus on the management of acute pancreatitis and treatment of pancreatic and liver tumours. He has published several research papers, reviews, congress proceedings, and book chapters. During 1991–2016, he attended for short periods every year the Hepatobiliary Pancreatic Surgery Service of Beaujon Hospital, Universitè de Paris, Clichy. As part of the ERASMUS Program 2010–2011, Dr. Neri developed a seminar on "Cystic Tumours of the Pancreas" at Ghent University, Belgium. He is also a member of SIC, IHPBA, EASL, NESA, and SLS.

Dr. Lixing Huang is an associate professor at Jimei University, China. He is engaged in research of molecular mechanisms of bacterial pathogen-host interaction, including but not limited to applying dual RNA-seq and dual iTRAQ approaches to complex infection settings comprising bacterial pathogens, their hosts, and resident gut microbiota; the interplay between host cell microRNAs/proteins and bacterial infection; the impact of bacterial

pathogens on host cell RNA metabolism; the effect of bacterial non-coding RNAs/ proteins on key host intracellular pathways; and nutritional immunity, the struggle for nutrient metals between hosts and pathogens. He is the author of more than sixty research articles. He is also a member of the China Society of Fisheries (CSF) and the Chinese Society of Toxicology (CST).

Dr. Jie Li is an Associate Professor and Research Fellow of the Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences. He completed a Ph.D. at the Institute of Oceanology, the Chinese Academy of Science. His research is directed at the epidemiology and immunology of bacterial pathogens in farming fish, including but not limited to fish disease control, fish vaccine development, and pathogenicity mechanisms of

fish pathogens. He is the author of ten research articles and a member of the China Society of Fisheries (CSF).
