Li Ling,^1,* Fangfang Li,^1,* Pinglan Yang,^1,* Robert D. Oates,² Sherman Silber,³ Cornelia Kurischko,⁴ Francis C. Luca,⁴ N. Adrian Leu,⁴ Jinwen Zhang,¹ Qiuling Yue,¹ Helen Skaletsky,⁵ Laura G. Brown,⁵ Steve G. Rozen,⁶ David C. Page,⁵ P. Jeremy Wang,^4,** Ke Zheng<sup>1,**,***

1</sup>State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
²Department of Urology, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
³Infertility Center of St. Louis, St. Luke's Hospital, St. Louis, MO, USA
⁴Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
⁵Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Whitehead Institute, and Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
⁶Centre for Computational Biology, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore

^*Li Ling, Fangfang Li and Pinglan Yang contributed equally to this work.
^**Correspondence: State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, China. E-mail: kezheng@njmu.edu.cn or Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. E-mail: pwang@vet.upenn.edu
^***Dr. Ke Zheng is a Professor of the State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine at Nanjing Medical University in China. Dr. Zheng received his PhD from Zhejiang University, China in 2007. Dr. Zheng completed his post-doc training in Prof. P. Jeremy Wang's lab at University of Pennsylvania, USA, from 2007 to 2013. Dr. Zheng started to pursue independent academic career as a principal investigator. By employing cross-disciplinary approaches, Dr. Zheng's laboratory has been focused on the study of the epigenetic and posttranscriptional mechanisms underlying mammalian spermatogenesis encompassing noncoding RNAs and RNA-binding proteins, representatively including the critical role of RNA helicase MOV10L1 in piRNA biogenesis. Dr. Zheng has so far published ∼20 research articles with hundreds of citations. Dr. Zheng was awarded the Bayard T. Storey Award for Excellence in Research in USA in 2010 and the Distinguished Youth Fund of Jiangsu Province in China in 2015.