Dr. Jingyuan Cong obtained her Bachelor's degree from Jilin university in 2019. Subsequently, she received her Ph.D. from the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2025, where her doctoral research focused on dissecting the transcription and replication mechanisms of viral genomes using structural biology approaches. In 2026, she joined Professor Li Shengying's laboratory at Shandong University for postdoctoral research.