Books By Yanping Xue, Meredith Blackwell - Author

Yen-Ping Hsueh was born in Taipei, Taiwan. Biology has always been her favorite subject in school so she followed her interest and majored in Plant Pathology and Microbiology at the National Taiwan University as an undergraduate. She received B.Sc. (2001) and M.Sc. (2003) degrees, and moved to Duke University to pursue her PhD under the guidance of Dr. Joseph Heitman. Her PhD work mainly focused on the sexual cycle of the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans. After receiving her Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology from Duke University in 2008, she continued to work with Heitman briefly and then moved to Cal Tech to start her postdoctoral training with Dr. Paul W. Sternberg in 2010. Her postdoctoral work was an investigation of the interactions between nematode-trapping fungi and the model nematode C. elegans. 

In 2015 Hsueh returned to Taiwan, to begin her independent career at the Institute of Molecular Biology in AcademiaSinica where she is cu