Dongyeop Lee, DVM, is an integrated MS/PhD student in veterinary microbiology and infectious diseases at Konkuk University, Republic of Korea. His research focuses on wildlife and zoonotic viral diseases, avian influenza viruses, next-generation sequencing, whole-genome sequencing, phylogenetic analysis and the genomic characterisation of animal viruses using bioinformatics. He is also involved in pathogen surveillance and molecular epidemiology studies in domestic and wild animals.