Pengpeng Bi (Bee) grew up in Shandong, an eastern province of China. He completed his doctoral study in Dr. Shihuan Kuang’s group in Purdue University. Next, he joined Dr. Eric Olson‘s group in the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center as a postdoctoral researcher. His graduate and postdoctoral work mainly focused on the molecular regulation of cell fate choice in muscle and adipose tissues. In Aug 2018, Pengpeng launched a new lab in Center for Molecular Medicine at the University of Georgia. His academic home is Department of Genetics, where he teaches classes and accepts students.