I am Shilan Wang, a Postdoctoral fellow in Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care and Microbiota I-Center (MagIC), The Chinese University of Hong Kong. I have been funded with National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) - Young Scientists Fund (Class C) 2025 and was selected as Young Scientist, Hong Kong Laureate Forum 2025. My current research interest mainly concentrated on the impact of maternal health and disease on the infant gut microbiome and growth, and I will further study the mechanism of why GDM affects the offspring’s neurodevelopment in sexual dimorphism and define the healthy early life gut microbiome.