Dr. Z. Yan Wang is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Biology at the University of Washington, Seattle. She is a neuroethologist interested in the evolutionary neuroscience, social behaviors, and senescence. Yan completed her postdoctoral work at Princeton University, studying the effects of social isolation on the brains and behaviors of bumblebees, and her graduate work at the University of Chicago, investigating the molecular neuroendocrinology of maternal behaviors and death in the octopus.