Ziying Xu, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She earned her Ph.D. in Biology of Aging from UT Health San Antonio, with prior training in Biotechnology at Georgetown University and Wenzhou Medical University. Her work focuses on shotgun lipidomics, glial crosstalk and neurodegeneration, and host-microbiota lipid metabolism. She has published in Nature Communications and Molecular Neurodegeneration, chaired the Lipidomics Gordon Research Seminar, is a member of ASMS, AGE, and SfN, and received the Joe and Bettie Ward Award