Affiliation: Texas A&M University

Dr. Huan Zhang received her PhD degree in the Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology at Texas A&M University. During her PhD study, Dr. Zhang worked on the fungal development and pathogenesis in Fusarium verticillioides. She is currently a postdoc research associate in the Department of Biology at Texas A&M University, mainly working on the cell wall synthesis mechanism using the soil bacterium Myxococcus xanthus as a model organism as well as working on interspecies interactions between bacteria and fungus.