Ying (she/her) is a final-year PhD candidate from University of Queensland (UQ). After earning her bachelor's degree in China, she completed a Master of Biotechnology (Research Extensive) in UQ. During her master's program, she conducted a one-year research project on somatic reprogramming in Christian Nefzger's lab at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, UQ. Building on her interest and laboratory foundation in reprogramming, she continued her PhD training in the same lab, focusing on the role of somatic transcription factors in induced reprogramming, using cutting-edge multi-omic technologies.