Shaoqun (Simon) Zhou leads the Plant Metabolism and Biotic Stress Resistance Group in the Ecological Genomics Center of AGIS. Simon’s graduate training at Cornell University focused on plant chemical genetics and biotic stress resistance. After a brief industry post-doctoral fellowship at Elo Life Systems in Durham, NC, he joined AGIS as a research professor in July, 2019. His past work includes identification of novel fungal pathogen resistance factors and establishment of metabolite genome-wide association resources in maize using multi-omics analytics and quantitative genomics approaches.