Dr. Xiufang Xin got her bachelor’s degree at China Agricultural University in China in 2008 and, afterwards, pursued her Ph.D. degree at Department of Plant Biology/DOE-Plant Research Laboratory at Michigan State University in USA from 2008 to 2014. Dr. Xin finished her postdoctoral training at Michigan State University in 2017 and joined CEPAMS/ Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology in Shanghai as a group leader starting August of 2017. Dr. Xin has been studying molecular plant-microbe interactions, and specific research areas in her lab include (1) interplay between bacterial pathogenesis and plant immunity, (2) mechanisms of environmental influence on plant diseases and (3) plant-microbiome interactions.