Xiyu Ma

Dr. Xiyu Ma grew up in Yunnan, China, and earned his B.S. in Life Sciences from the University of Science and Technology of China. He completed his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Biophysics at Texas A&M University, where his graduate work and first postdoctoral training focused on plant innate immune signaling, particularly the roles of post-translational modifications such as ubiquitination and phosphorylation. Dr. Ma then conducted a second postdoctoral fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, studying how human innate immunity is regulated by post-translational modifications such as proteolytic cleavage.