Xiaoyi Wan

Xiaoyi is a PhD student in the School of Medicine at Trinity College Dublin. Her research focuses on abnormal post-translational modifications of tau and their role in tauopathies, with an interest in how these changes contribute to disease and how synaptic plasticity, including LTP and LTD, may influence tau PTMs. 

Xiaoyi completed her undergraduate degree in Biotechnology at Sun Yat-sen University before completing an MSc in Molecular Medicine at Trinity College Dublin. During her MSc, she investigated extracellular vesicle biomarkers in non-small cell lung cancer. Outside of the lab, Xiaoyi enjoys fencing and has a background in Taekwondo.