Bioinorganic Research Group at Purdue
About Us
We are an interdisciplinary research group in the Department of Chemistry and Purdue Institute of Integrative Neuroscience to decipher the molecular mechanisms underlying the complex biological systems. We aim to investigate the roles of metal ions homeostasis in neurodegenerative diseases, design functional metalloproteins for biosynthetic, biotechnological and pharmaceutical applications, and elucidate the molecular basis of the mechanism of magnetoreception.
News
01/2025 - Congratulations to Eli and Andrew! Their research, titled "Secondary Sphere Interactions Modulate Peroxynitrite Scavenging by the E2 Domain of Amyloid Precursor Protein," has been published in Dalton Transactions! Link
11/2024 - Our collaborative research paper 'Enantioconvergent copper-catalysed difluoromethylation of alkyl halides' has been successfully published in Nat. Catal. A big congratulations to the entire team on this achievement! Link
11/2024 - The Tian Lab is excited to welcome three new first-year graduate students—Maryam, Xinyu, and Damilare! We look forward to embarking on exciting new scientific endeavors together.
10/2024 - Our collaborative research paper 'Evaluation of Alpha-Synuclein and Tau Antiaggregation Activity of Urea and Thiourea-Based Small Molecules for Neurodegenerative Disease Therapeutics' has been successfully published in ACS Chem. Neurosci. Congratulations to the entire team! Link
09/2024 - Tian Lab welcomes CHM19700 students Minji Kim and Ryan Pifher to our team!
07/2024 - We are excited to share that our collaborative research paper, "Understanding Europium and Terbium Speciation and Ion Pairing in Carbonate Complexes Using Advanced Spectroscopy Techniques," has been published in Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. Congratulations to the entire team on this accomplishment! Link