Yinwei Zeng was born on September 1994 in Chongqing, China. He earned a Bachelor of Agronomy in July 2018 at Northwest A&F University, China. During his bachelor study, he was fascinated by the plant-microbe interactions and investigated symbiosis's role in plant arsenic tolerance mechanism. At the end of 2019, He moved to Ghent University, Belgium to continue research on root development as a PhD candidate in the Department Plants and Crops, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering. Under the supervision of Danny Geelen and Steffen Vanneste, he gained profound insights into regulating adventitious root development using pro-auxin HYSPARIN. He completed his PhD in October 2023 and served as a post-doc to reveal the model of action of HYSPAIN for one year.
Yinwei joined Williams lab @UC Berkeley in November 2024 to study how epigenetics shape plant regeneration and aging.
