Yan recently attended and presented a poster at the 14th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology (ISME), which took place in the Bella Center, Copenhagen, Denmark on August 19-24, 2012. The theme for this year is "The Power of the Small." Yan's poster title is "The ecology of Vibrio metecus, Vibrio cholerae's cryptic sister taxa."
The 15th ISME will be held in Seoul, South Korea on August 24-29, 2014.