Dr. Qing He graduated from Shandong Normal University with a B.S. in biotechnology and got her Ph.D. in microbiology from Shandong University. Her graduate work focused on ­­­the structural and functional study of c-di-NMP related proteins, and the many biochemical experiments. Dr. He’s main lab competencies lie in ­­­cloning, protein purification, crystallization and small molecular and protein interaction tests. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship in the lab of Dr. Huilin Li and was promoted to research scientist at Van Andel Institute in 2026.