Ying (Shirley) Deng

Lead an editorial development team for 3 Frontiers journals in China: Frontiers in Plant Science, Frontiers in Marine Science, and Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution: - oversee the team targets for content acquisition goals, achieved 2022 target within 9 months - manage a team of specialists - build strong relationships with internal and external partners - organize editorial board meetings, support the board expansion in China - promote Frontiers journals through conferences and social media

Engage with high-profile researchers to collaborate with Frontiers' journals Develop Research Topic projects for Life Science program journals Support journal development through identifying and engaging leading scholars

Dissertation: Ecological and evolutionary relevance of plant responses to environmental variability. - Ecological experiments (common environment, reciprocal transplant), R statistical analysis, linear/mixed models, phylogenetic signal etc. - Conference contributions (GfÖ, EAB, PopBio) - Publications - Other tasks: student project instructor

Master thesis: Epigenetic regulatory factors in an invasive plant (funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China) Ecological experiments (common garden) Molecular analysis (DNA/RNA preparation, gene sequencing, gene expression, DNA methylation analysis, microRNA sequencing data analysis) Publications (1 first-authorship, 1 second-authorship) Other tasks: assist plant biology course

- Courses: general biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, cell biology, ecology, biostatistics etc. - Summer excursions: Nanjing University (2008), Sichuan University (2009).