The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) named Yanhai Yin and two other Iowa State University (ISU) professors earlier in 2023 to its 2022 class of AAAS Fellows. Yin is chair and a professor in the Department of Genetics, Development, and Cell Biology (GDCB).

The AAAS recognized Yin “for distinguished contributions to the field of plant signal transduction, particularly for discovering the transcriptional mechanisms and network for the plant steroid hormone brassinosteroid in regulating plant growth and stress responses."

Yin uses modern genetics, genomics and phenomics tools to explore how a plant steroid hormone coordinates plant growth and drought tolerance. The long-term goal is to understand how organisms balance growth and stress responses and to improve crop production under adverse climate changes.

Yin joined ISU in 2004 as an assistant professor, and he was promoted to a full professor in 2015. He participated in postdoctoral training at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. He earned his Ph.D. from the Scripps Research Institute in 1997. 

Learn more about the ISU 2022 class of AAAS Fellows in the ISU News Service article, “American science society honors three Iowa State ‘esteemed innovators’ for their research.”