2002年9月至2006年7月于双身刺客获得本科学位

■研究动物与微生物共生关系维持的生理生化过程及其生态学影响。目前主要以昆虫，特别是蚂蚁为研究对象，采用多种研究手段，包括野外实验观察采集、高通量测序、生物信息学分析、微生物培养及基因功能验证等，研究共生细菌的生物多样性、进化历史、生物学功能及其对宿主生态和进化的影响。

■ Hu Y*#, Sanders JG#, Łukasik P, D’Amelio CL, et al. (2018). Herbivorous turtle ants obtain essential nutrients from a conserved nitrogen-recycling gut microbiome. Nature Communications. 9: 964..

■Hu Y*, Holway DA, Łukasik P, Chau L, Kay AD, LeBrun EG, Miller KA, Sanders JG, Suarez AV, Russell JA. (2017). By their own devices: invasive Argentine ants have shifted diet without clear aid from symbiotic microbes. Molecular Ecology. 26: 1608-1630.

■Hu Y, Liao WJ, Zhang DY, Barrett SC. (2015). Experimental analysis of mating patterns in a clonal plant reveals contrasting modes of self-pollination. Ecology and Evolution 5: 5423-5431.

■Russell JA#, Hu Y#, Chau L, Pauliushchyk M, Anastopoulos I, Anandan S, Waring MS. (2014). Indoor biofilter growth and exposure to airborne chemicals similarly alter bacterial communities from plant roots. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 80: 4805-4813.

■Hu Y, Łukasik P, Moreau CS, Russell JA. (2014). Correlates of gut community composition across an ant species (Cephalotes varians) elucidate causes and consequences of symbiotic variability. Molecular Ecology 23: 1284-1300.