Xiangfeng Tan was conffered with a PhD degree in Forest Biology and Management from the University of Alberta. Since he joined Dr. Ma’s lab as a postdoc researcher in 2019, Xiangfeng has been working on the projects of plant-microbe interactions using rice and other plant materials. Through exploiting multi-omics approach, Xiangfeng would like to uncover the host factors in driving microbiome assembly from diverse perspectives. Other research interests include co-evolution of hosts and microorganisms, microbial functional traits, and rhizospheric substrate flow.