Shuhua Yang is a professor in the College of Biological Science, China Agricultural University. She received B.S. and M.S. degrees at Nankai University, China, and a Ph.D degree at National University of Singapore. After completing postdoctoral research at Cornell University, she joined the faculty at China Agricultural University. She is currently the Director for the State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. Her laboratory mainly focuses on the study of molecular mechanism of plant responses to low temperatures. As one of important environmental factors, low temperatures restrict plant growth, development and distribution. How plants sense and respond to low temperatures is poorly understood. To understand the molecular mechanism underlying plants’ response to low temperatures, her lab has been undertaking genetic, biochemical and molecular approaches to identify novel components essential for low temperature signaling pathway and investigate the functions of these components in cold responses using Arabidopsis thaliana and maize as research systems. She is also investigating the crosstalk of cold signaling and plant hormone signaling. Her research aims at deep understanding of how plants perceive and respond to the environmental temperature change.