Dr. Minho Song was born in Seoul, South Korea. He earned his B. S. degree in Applied Animal Science from Korea University in Seoul in 2003. He then migrated to the U. S. and earned his MS degree in swine nutrition under the guidance of Dr. Samuel Baidoo at the University of Minnesota in 2007. His Master's thesis was on the effects of distillers dried grains with soluble on performance, energy and nitrogen digestibility, and milk composition of lactating sows. After completion of his Master's degree, he joined the Animal Sciences Department at the University of Illinois and earned his Ph. D. degree in swine nutritional immunology and microbiology under the guidance of Dr. James Pettigrew in 2011. Dr. Song's Ph. D. and postdoctoral research focused on evaluations of feed ingredients as well as of dietary effects on pig health and productive performance, using nutritional, microbiological, and immunological approaches. From 2011 to 2012, he was a postdoctoral research associate in swine nutrition and physiology under the guidance of Dr. Hans Stein. In 2012, Dr. Song took a position as an assistant professor of nonruminant nutrition at Chungnam National University in Daejeon, South Korea.