News

May 2023

Xiaojun will be promoted to Associate Professor and granted Tenure effective in the Fall.

April 2023

Xiaojun receives SBHSE Outstanding Assistant Professor Award. Congratulations!

Feb 2023

Austin passed his prospectus exam. One more step to be a Ph.D. Keep it up!

Jan 2023

Juan starts his job as a postdoc in the lab!

Dec 2022

Austin passed his comprehensive exam. Good job, Austin.

Hanah’s collaboration project with Halden lab on Covid19 pandemic using the established wastewater monitoring network is officially published online in The Lancet Microbe.

Nov 2022

Xiaojun gives a talk at AIChE.

Austin’s paper is online now. Check it out ACS Synthetic Biology.

Oct 2022

Juan successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation! Congratulations, Dr. Melendez-Alvarez!

Xiaojun gives a talk at CELLS 2022 (Computing among Cells Workshop) at DISC 2022.

Austin’s project on the NCR Feedforward Controller has been accepted by ACS Synthetic Biology.

Dr. Tae Seok Moon visited our lab and gave us a seminar for all BME students!

Sept 2022

Juan’s paper is online now PLoS Computational Biology. Check it out.

Aug 2022

Sadikshya and Abdelrahaman join the lab! Welcome!

Juan’s paper is accepted by PLoS Computational Biology. Congratulations, Juan.

July 2022

The collaborative paper on the biological memory effect in microbial fuel cell biosensors with Jianwei is accepted by IEEE Sensors Journal.

June 2022

Juan, Austin, and Xiaojun share our research at the qBio conference.

May 2022

Juan passes his prospectus. Congratulations, Juan. One more step to be Dr. Melendez-Alvarez.

April 2022

Hanah successfully defended her dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Goetz.

March 2022

Xiaojun gives an invited talk and poster at the APS March Meeting.

Feb 2022

Xiaojun is featured in ASU-FSE Full Circle story

https://fullcircle.asu.edu/faculty/how-to-entertain-a-gene-circuit-without-exhausting-its-host/

Feb 2022

Austin gives poster presentations at the 66th  Biophysical Society Annual Meeting.

Feb 2022

Both Xiaojun and Rong give oral presentations at the Winter-Qbio conference.

Feb 2022

Our work on the Double‐Edged Role of Resource Competition in Gene Expression Noise and Control is online now. Check it out.

Jan 2022

Xiaojun receives an NSF Career award.

Jan 2022

Hanah and Austin’s work on the ‘Double-edged role of resource competition in gene expression noise and control’ is accepted by Advanced Genetics. Congratulations, everyone.

Nov 2021

Xiaojun gives a virtual seminar in the Department of Computational and Systems Biology at the Univerisity of Pittsburgh. So excited to be back to PITT.

Nov 2021

Diego and Juan’s paper is accepted by PLoS Computational Biology. Here is the Link. Congratulations, everyone.

Nov 2021

Xiaojun gives one presentation at NSF Workshop: Systems and Control Theory for Synthetic Biology.

Nov 2021

Hanah and Austin’s collaboration work is now shared in BioRxiv

Oct 2021

Xiaojun gives a talk at UCI CMCF 2021 Annual Symposium.

Oct 2021

Xiaojun gives a talk at #SynBYSS. Here is the record on Youtube.

Oct 2021

Hanah passed her Prospectus Exam! Congratulations, Hanah.

Sept 2021

Dr. Xiling Shen visits our lab and give us a wonderful talk for our BME seminar.

Sept 2021

The paper on fibrotic kidney local microenvironment, led by Dr. Zhou, is online. Great work, the Team!


Sept 2021

Juan passed his Qualifying Exam. Congratulations, Juan.

Aug 2021

Xiaojun was awarded a 5-yr R35 MIRA grant.

Aug 2021

Austin’s paper on controlling Winner-Take-All Resource Competition is online. Check it out here https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9483381

July 2021

Xiaojun gives International Mammalian Synthetic Biology Workshop (mSBW).

June 2021

Excited to see the plasmids from our lab shared in Addgene finally.

https://www.addgene.org/Xiaojun_Tian/

May 2021

Xiaojun gives a talk about NCR controller for resource competition at 2021 American Control Conference (ACC).

May 2021

Congratulations to Juan and Austin on being awarded the Biological Design Excellence Award and SBHSE Graduate Excellence award respectively! Excellent Job, Juan and Austin! So proud of you!

April 2021

Hanah gives a wonderful invited talk at the Biological Modeling and Mining (BMM) one-day event organized by Dr. Minghan Chen and Dr. Natalia Khuri at Wake Forest University. Great Job, Hanah.

April 2021

Our paper titled ‘Emergent Damped Oscillation Induced by Nutrient-Modulating Growth Feedback’ is published at ACS Synthetic Biology. Congratulations to all the authors.

April 2021

Diego Barra Avila successfully defended his Master Thesis. Congratulations, Diego.

March 2021

Xiaojun gives a talk for MPET VFM Seminar at Mayo Clinic.

Feb 2021

Our new work on Emergent Oscillation Induced by Nutrient-Modulating Growth Feedback is shared online. Check it out here. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.09.430447v1

Feb 2021

Our paper on ‘WTA’ resource competition is online at Nature Communications.

‘Behind the paper’ at Nature Research Bioengineering Community: Unfair Yet Controllable Competition Between Synthetic Gene Circuits: Harnessing ‘Winner-Takes-All’ Resource Competition Through ‘Division of Labor’

ASU News: https://news.asu.edu/20210208-solutions-asu-synthetic-gene-circuit-process-opens-new-pathways-disease

Jan 2021

Our paper on NCR controller for resource competition is accepted by 2021 American Control Conference (ACC). Congratulations on your first publication, Austin. Good Job.

Jan 2021

Our paper on resource competition is accepted by Nature Communications. Excellent news for the great start of 2021. Thanks for all your contributions, everyone.

Dec 2020

Xiaojun, Austin, Juan’s talks at the 1st International BioDesign Research Conference are online. Please leave a comments if you have any questions or suggestions. Thanks.

Nov 2020

Hanah passed her comprehensive exam. Congratulations, Hanah.

Nov 2020

Xiaojun, Austin, Juan’s abstracts are accepted as Oral Presentation by the 1st International BioDesign Research Conference. Congratulations!

Nov 2020

Xiaojun gives a talk at the ASU Biological Design Seminar.

Nov 2020

Xiaojun gives a micro talk at the 3rd Annual Conference on Quantitative Approaches in Biology.

Oct 2020

Austin Stone did an excellent Oral Presentation at the 2nd International NanoBioEngineering Virtual Congress.

Oct 2020

Dr. Matthew Bennett visit us virtually and gives us a seminar ‘Engineering Multicellular Systems in Bacteria‘.

Oct 2020

Dr. Ido Golding visit us virtually and gives us a seminar ‘Illuminating Bacterial Individuality‘.

Sept 2020

Austin Stone, Hanah Goetz, and Juan Melendez-Alvarez’a abstracts have been selected for poster presentation by the Cell Bio Virtual 2020-An Online ASCB|EMBO Meeting. Congratulations

June 2020

Xiaojun Tian presents the work of resource competition at Evolutionary and ecological systems biology talks, a web-based seminar series organized by Dr Jeff Gore at MIT. https://sites.google.com/view/eesb-talks/home

May 2020

Our new work on resource competition is shared online. Take a look. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.23.103259v1

May 2020

Congratulations to Hanah on being awarded the Outstanding Graduate Student Award in the Biological Design Graduate Program in SEMTE! Excellent Job, Hanah! So proud of you!

April 2020

https://fullcircle.engineering.asu.edu/research/fulton-researchers-reveal-new-understanding-of-synthetic-gene-circuits/

April 2020

Our first synthetic biology paper ‘Topology-dependent interference of synthetic gene circuit function by growth feedback‘ is online at Nature Chemical Biology. Congratulations, everyone!

March 2020

Our paper ‘A Plausible Accelerating Function of Partial EMT States in Cancer Metastasis‘ is online at PLOS Computational Biology. Congratulations, Hanah and Juan.

April 2020

Xiaojun’s paper ‘Sequential Wnt Agonist then Antagonist Treatment Accelerates Tissue Repair and Minimizes Fibrosis‘ is published at iScience. Congratulations, everyone!

March 2020

Dr. Huimin Zhao from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign visits our lab.

Feb 2020

Rong and Xiaojun give two talks and two posters on our recent research circuit-host interactions at the Winter-Qbio conference.

Jan 2020

Hanah is attending  ‘A Short Course in Systems Biology: A Foundation for Interdisciplinary Careers’ organized by UC IRVINE/CCBS.

Jan 2020

Two papers accepted on the first day of Chinese New Year! Exciting! Congratulations, everyone!

  1. Zhang, R.Li J.Melendez-Alvarez, J., ChenX., Sochor, P., Zhang, Q.Goetz H, Ding, T., Wang, X., Tian, X.-J., Topology-Dependent Interference of Synthetic Gene Circuits by Growth Feedback. Nat.Chem.Biol. 2020. (Accepted)
  2. Goetz, H., Melendez-AlvarezJ., Chen, L, Tian, X.-J. A Plausible Accelerating Function of Partial EMT States in Cancer MetastasisPLOS Computational Biology. 2020. (Accepted)

Nov 2019

Our recent work titled ‘A Plausible Accelerating Function of Intermediate States in Cancer Metastasis’  is shared on biorxiv. Check it here.

Oct 2019

Dr. Wenying Shou from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center visits our lab.

Oct 2019

Xiaojun gives a talk and a poster at the 2nd Annual Symposium on Multiscale Cell Fate.

Oct 2019

Xiaojun gives a talk, Juan and Hanah give two posters at the ICMA VII. Hanah got the Best Poster Award! Congratulations!

Sep 2019

Andrea Borsenik, Austin Stone and Rishabh Guttal join the lab. Welcome!

Aug 2019

Our first experimental work is shared on biorxiv. Check it here.

Aug 2019

Xiaojun gives a poster at the qBio2019.

Xiaojun’s NSF proposal is awarded.   Congratulations!

June 2019

Xiaojun gives a talk at the conference  ‘Quantitative Biology 2019: Dynamic Signaling in Cells and Embryos’.  

May 2019

Hanah, Juan, and Xiaojun give two posters in the ‘Statewide Symposium in Regenerative Medicine’.  

May 2019

The work collaborated with Dr. Xiao Wang lab on ratio control is finally accepted by ACS Synthetic Biology! Congratulations! 

May 2019

Vishvak Rangarajan joins the lab! Welcome! 

May 2019

Renaad, Shaheeda, Jonathan successfully defended their applied projects.  Congratulations!  

April 2019

Erin successfully defended her Barrett Honors thesis.  Congratulations!  

March 2019

Xiaojun’s work ‘targeting temporal dynamics of hypoxia-induced tumor-secreted factors halts tumor migration’ is accepted by Cancer Research.  

 

March 2019

Xiaojun gives a talk at the APS March Meeting 2019 as an invited speaker.

 

February 2019

Chase Frailey and Daniel Khan join the lab! Welcome!

January 2019

Wesley Groves and Diego Barra join the lab! Welcome!

January 2019

Xiaojun’s review ‘Investigating epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition with integrated computational and experimental approaches’ is published in Physical Biology! Congratulations!

January 2019

Manuela and Hanah’s review Modeling ncRNA-Mediated Circuits in Cell Fate Decision is published as a book chapter! Congratulations!

January 2019

Shaheeda and Jonathan join the lab! Welcome!

December 2018

Xiaojun gives a talk at the Mayo Clinic Symposium on Regenerative Medicine & Surgery 2018.

 

November 2018

Dr. Jin Wang from Stony Brook Univ. visits our lab.

 

October 2018

Xiaojun gave a poster at the Inaugural Cell Fate Symposium, UC, Irvine.

September 2018

I am serving as a guest editor for a special issue on a special issue on “Mathematical Modeling of Cell Fate Decision-Making, Predicting and Controlling”, which will be published in the journal Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering. This special issue intends to focus on the mathematical model developments and theoretical analysis for biological systems with an emphasis on work related to cell fate decisions. The work should have a strong connection with biology. Experimental verification is appreciated but not required. More information can be found HERE.

September 2018

Jiao Li joins our lab. Welcome, Jiao!

 

August 2018

Hanah, Dashan, Juan, Renaad join our lab. Welcome, everyone!

July 2018

Dr. Luonan Chen Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences visit our lab during the HOT summer.

 

June 2018

Dr. James Collins and Dr. Tom Ellis visits Xiao lab and our lab.

 

June 2018

Xiaojun gives a poster at the 2018 Synthetic Biology SEED conference at Scottsdale AZ.

 

 

April 2018

The predictions about the partial EMT states with our first mathematical model for EMT in 2013 (PMID: 23972859) is now verified in vivo (PMID: 29670281). It is noted that in 2014 we verified our prediction in cell line MCF10A (PMID: 25270257). It is so amazing that we have several partial EMT states in cancer metastasis in vivo (PMID: 29670281). It is also noted that the idea of partial EMT also helped to resolve the debate of contribution of EMT on renal fibrosis (PMID: 26236989, 26236991). It is such a pleasure that all of these great research works cited our papers as our contribution to the idea of partial EMT. 

 

April 2018

Xiaojun’s collaborative work with Jingyu Zhang and Jianhua Xing is accepted by npj Systems Biology and Applications. Congratulations!!

April 2018

Rong Zhang joins our lab as a Lab Technician!  Welcome, Dr. Zhang.

March 2018

Fei Ye joins our lab as a visiting scholar!  Welcome, Prof. Fei Ye.

February 2018

Xiaojun gives a talk at Math Bio Seminar.

January 2018

Xiaojun gives proseminar for Biological Design doctoral students.

January 2018

Manuela Vanegas Ferro, Erin Sussex, and Anna Rothweil join our lab! Welcome, Manuela, Erin, and Anna.

December 2017

Xiaojun gives three posters at the 8th International Meeting on Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition @ Houston, TX.

November 2017

Xiaojun gives a talk at the BME 591 Seminar.

October 2017

Xiaojun gives a poster presentation at the Mayo Clinic / ASU Symposium.

September 2017

Jason Zhang joins our lab!  Welcome, Jason.

September 2017

Zhiwei Yang joins our lab!  Welcome, Zhiwei.

September 2017

Xiaojun gives a talk at the joint group meeting with Prof. Junwen Wang’s lab.

August 2017

Xiaojun arrives at campus on August 13.

August 2017

Xiaojun gives a talk at the 2017 International Conference on Systems Biology in Blacksburg, Virginia on August 6-12.

August 2017

The Tian Laboratory at the Arizona State University is launched. We’re currently looking for motivated graduate students and postdocs. Join us!

April 2017

Xiaojun accepts a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at the Arizona State University.