News
02/2024 - Our collaborative paper titled 'Multi-electron Oxidation of Ce(III) Complexes Facilitated by Redox-Active Ligands' has been successfully published in Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. Link
12/2023 - Our collaborative paper titled '1,4-Diurea- and 1,4-Dithiourea-Substituted Aromatic Derivatives Selectively Inhibit α-Synuclein Oligomer Formation In Vitro' has been successfully published in ACS Omega. Link
11/2023 - Tian Lab is excited to welcome two new members to our team: graduate student Joey Palazzo and undergraduate student Alana Thomas!
09/2023 - Tian Lab welcomes undergraduate students Caitlin Birthright and Maggie Kim to our team!
06/2023 - The joint publication entitled "Enabling Charge Delocalization in Iron (III) Macrocyclic Complexes through Ring Unsaturation" has been published by Inorg. Chem.
06/2023 - Andrew's noteworthy research paper, "The E2 Domain of Amyloid Precursor Protein Possesses Peroxynitrite Scavenging Activity," has received acceptance from Inorg. Chem. Kudos to him! Link
06/2023 - Andrew Poore won William F. Epple Teaching Award! Excellent work!
05/2023 - Andrew Poore won Ian P. Rothwell Outstanding Inorganic Literature Seminar! Well done, Andrew!
04/2023 - Undergraduate researcher Christian Denault (CJ) won Summer Research Fellowship. Well earned, CJ!
11/2022 - Tian Lab welcomes first-year graduate student Stephen Yachuw to our team!
09/2022 - Our collaboration paper on 'Actinide–Oxygen Multiple Bonds from Air: Synthesis and Characterization of a Thorium Oxo Supported by Redox-Active Ligands' has been published in JACS!
08/2022 - Tian lab welcomes undergrad student David Toba from the Universidad Nacional in Colombia to our team! David is supported by the Undergraduate Research Experience Purdue-Colombia (UREP-C) program.
08/2022 - Tian lab welcomes undergrad student Caslyn Whitesell to our team!
06/2022 - Congratulations to Peter Voss on receiving the research support from the Ross-Lynn Research Scholars Grant.
04/2022 - Undergraduate researcher Eli Zuercher won M. Isaks & Tanner Scholarship for Excellence in Chemistry and Summer Research Fellowship. Congratulations!
01/2022 - Tian Lab welcomes undergrad students Christian Denault, Natasha Das, and Natalia Benesiewicz to our team!
11/2021 - Shimadzu LC-2050C equipped with PDA detector has been installed! Time to separate the enantiomers.
09/2021 - Tian Lab welcomes CHM19700 student Samuel Lechlitner to our team! Sam will work on metalloprotein engineering.
05/2021 - Tian Lab welcomes first-year graduate student Calvin to our team!
05/2021 - Tian Lab welcomes undergrad student Eli Zuercher to our team! Eli is the first undergrad working in our lab!
04/2021 - Shiliang's research paper on 'Stepwise nitrosylation of the nonheme iron site in an engineered azurin and a molecular basis for nitric oxide signaling mediated by nonheme iron proteins' has been published in Chemical Science! It has been selected for the "2021 Chemical Science HOT Article Collection".
04/2021 - JASCO J-1700 circular dichroism spectrometer has been installed! It enables us to obtain data at wavelengths up to 2500 nm without manually switching light sources and detectors.
03/2021 - All the first-year graduate students have successfully passed their cumulative exams required for the Ph.D. Congratulations!
02/2021 - SX20 stopped-flow system from Applied Photophysics has been installed!
11/2020 - Tian Lab welcomes three first-year graduate students Andrew, Khai, and Peter to our team!
09/2020 - We're recruiting! We have openings for two postdocs with research experiences in mechanistic studies of metalloproteins or enzymology, several graduate and undergraduate students interested in bioinorganic research.
09/2020 - Shiliang's research paper on 'Role of a Tyrosine Radical in Human Ceruloplasmin Catalysis' has been published in ACS Central Science! This work indicates the relationship between Fe dysregulation and ROS formation in neurons.
08/2020 - The Tian Lab starts at Purdue! 1600 sqft fully renovated research space! New instruments ordered. Happy unpacking!
