Graduate Student
Education
M.S., 2021, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
B.S., 2020, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
B.S., 2020, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China
Awards and Honors
- Conference Presentation Award (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2025)
- Muyuan scholarship (Westlake University, 2022)
- National grants & Westlake Education Foundation (Westlake University, 2022)
- Need-based scholarship (Brandeis University, 2020)
- Global-partnership Scholarship (Colorado State University, 2017-2020)
Recent Publications
Fan, H., Briercheck, A., Mutalik, V.K., Xiong, M., Zhang, Y. (2025) Cross-species phenotypic profiling uncovers functional determinants of bacterial cold shock adaptation. BioRxiv. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.22.676666
Tao, L., Fan, H. (2024) Two Recombinant Fimbriae Vaccines Protect Mice Against Enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC). Chinese Patent. No. CN117562988A