About Judy
I am a microbial ecologist and currently a postdoctoral researcher in King lab at UBC. I love fairy tales, detective stories and puzzles. I am passionate about accessible science communication (see Outreach), and promoting equity and inclusion in science (see EDI). When I am away from my desk and lab bench, I like hiking, swimming and observing moving objects.
Research Interests
Microbial symbiosis is ubiquitous in nature, spanning the mutualism-to-parasitism continuum. My research integrates multi-omics, quantitative ecology and experimental evolution to investigate how environmental change reshapes host-microbiome-pathogen interactions, and how these dynamics feed back onto host fitness. I currently use metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, individual-based modeling and phylogenetic approaches to study microbial communities across individual and population levels in wild mammals such as polar bears.
Education
2024 - Present: Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Canada
Oct 2020 - Jan 2024: DPhil in Biology, University of Oxford, UK
2019 - 2020 Bioinformatician Trainee, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL_EBI), UK
2017 - 2019 M.S. Bioinformatics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
2013 - 2017 B.S. Biotechnology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China