Lijuan Yang received a B.S. degree in animal science from Shihezi University, Shihezi City, China, in 2002 and an M.S. degree in animal medicine from Shihezi University, Shihezi City, China, in 2005. She worked for Tarim University in Xinjiang from 2005 to 2017. She received a Ph.D. degree in biology from the School of Life Science, Tshinghua University, Beijing, China. Her research interests include Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. After Ph.D. graduation, she has taught at the Sichuan University of Science and Engineering since 2017.