Dr. Cangliang Shen, Food Microbiologist and Associate Professor/Extension Specialist, Ph.D., Division of Animal and Nutritional Sciences, Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources & Design, West Virginia University. Dr. Shen has received several awards including the most recent Outstanding Volunteer Award of Food Microbiology Division, Institute of Food Technologists 2018. He is the Chair of Food Microbiology for IFT and has received 12 funded research grants in food safety. He is the co-author of the book, Food Microbiology Laboratory for the Food Science Student: A Practical Approach, published by Springer in 2017, and has published ~41 journal articles. He serves as the Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Food Protection and Food Protection Trends.Dr. Yifan Zhang, Professor of Wayne State University, has an extensive research and teaching experience in food microbiology. Dr. Zhang has led multiple projects supported by the US Department of Agriculture to understand the role that food and agricultural environment play in transmitting human pathogenic bacteria and antimicrobial resistance in urban agricultural settings. She is the co-author of Food Microbiology Laboratory for the Food Science Student: A Practical Approach, published by Springer in 2017. Dr. Zhang is on the editorial board of Frontiers in Microbiology and Journal of Food Protection. Prior to her current position, she completed postdoctoral training at Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, The Ohio State University. Dr. Zhang received the PhD degree in Food Science from the University of Maryland, College Park.