Service, Teaching & Mentoring

Teaching and mentoring

2024 — Climate Change Biology, UBC. Guest lecture for 30 undergraduate students.
2022 — Introduction to Microbiome Analysis. Two-day software workshop for approximately 25 graduate students from Canadian universities.
2022 — Microbial culture. Laboratory instruction for a group of six graduate students.
2019 — Biodiversity. Teaching assistant for a course of 12 graduate students.
2017 — Biology. Classroom instruction for 30 college students.

2026 — Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Oral presentation: “Pathogens and pests constrain poleward range shifts with climate change.”
2026 — Evolution Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Invited symposium talk: “Beyond taxonomy: quantifying biodiversity directly from eDNA sequences.”
2026 — Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Oral presentation: “Intensifying insect and disease pressure threatens over half of North American forests.”
2022 — Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Montréal, Québec, Canada. Oral presentation: “Community assembly and host specialization of leaf-associated bacteria.”
2022 — 11th International Symposium on Phyllosphere Microbiology, Davis, California, USA. Oral presentation: “Biogeography and diversity of phyllosphere bacteria.”
2021 — Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science Annual Symposium, online. Poster presentation: “Latitudinal diversity of phyllosphere bacteria.”
2017 — Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, USA. Oral presentation: “Community assembly of root-associated fungi in a subtropical forest.”

Journal peer review. New Phytologist, Ecology, Ecography, FEMS Microbiology Ecology and Environmental Microbiology.
2023 — High school research outreach. Introduced students to ecological research topics and day-to-day research life.
2022 — Montréal Chinese student research exchange. Organized a research exchange for Chinese international students in Montréal.
2018–2019 — Academic seminars, East China Normal University. Organized research talks for the university community.