Xinyi Yan

Ecology, Education, and Art.

I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Zhu Lab (University of Michigan) and the Blesh Lab (Michigan State University). My research focuses on nutrient cycling, plant communities, and microbial interactions under global change and different agricultural practices.

I did my PhD at University of Texas at Austin, co-advised by Caroline Farrior and Amy Wolf, where I studied how soil microbes influence plant diversity and productivity.

Here, you can read about my ecology projects 🌲, instructional design materials 📝, and artworks 🎨.