Fangyi Li

PhD Student (co-advised)

• Cohort PhD Students
• Tenure 2024
• Now Postdoc, Kunming Institute of Botany

Fangyi Li is a graduate student in the Complex Biosystems Progarm specializing in Integrated Plant Biology. Be co-advised by Dr. Schnable and Dr. Roston, her researches are focusing on learning plant cold tolerance through using computational and statistical methods.

In the News

• November 22, 2024 Fangyi Li defends PhD
  A big congratulations to Dr. Fangyi Li, a co-mentored PhD student of Prof. Schnable and Prof Roston, on defending her PhD dissertation! Her research focused on photosynthesis and cold tolerance in sorghum and maize. She (and her two cats) are headed to Kunming Institute of Botany where she’ll work as a postdoc.

Recent Publications

• Li F, Grzybowski M, Roston RL, Schnable JC (2025) Nighttime fluorescence phenotyping reduces environmental variability for photosynthetic traits and enables the identification of candidate loci in maize. Frontiers in Plant Science doi: 10.3389/fpls.2025.1595339
• Ali W, Grzybowski M, Torres-Rodriguez JV, Li F, Shrestha N, Mathivanan RK, de Bernardeaux G, Hoang K, Mural R, Roston RL, Schnable JC, Sahay S (2025) Quantitative genetics of photosynthetic trait variation in maize. Journal of Experimental Botany doi: 10.1093/jxb/eraf198 bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2024.11.25.625283