Lulu Qian
Professor of Bioengineering
B.E., Southeast University, 2002; Ph.D., Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2007. Assistant Professor, Caltech, 2013-18; Professor, 2019-.
Overview
The Qian lab is interested in designing and constructing nucleic-acid systems from scratch that exhibit programmable behaviors – at the basic level, such as recognizing molecular events from the environment, processing information, making decisions and taking actions; at the advanced level, such as learning and evolving – to explore the principles of molecular programs that nature creates, to embed control within biochemical systems that directly interact with molecules, and eventually, to re-create synthetic molecular programs that approach the complexity and sophistication of life itself.
Publications
- Sarraf, Namita;Rodriguez, Kellen R. et al. (2023) Modular reconfiguration of DNA origami assemblies using tile displacementScience Robotics
- Lapteva, Anna P.;Sarraf, Namita et al. (2022) DNA Strand-Displacement Temporal Logic CircuitsJournal of the American Chemical Society
- Glynn, Allison T.;Davidson, Samuel R. et al. (2022) Developmental Self-Assembly of a DNA Ring with Stimulus-Responsive Size and Growth DirectionJournal of the American Chemical Society
- Rodriguez, Kellen R.;Sarraf, Namita et al. (2021) A Loser-Take-All DNA CircuitACS Synthetic Biology
- Taylor, Dallas N.;Davidson, Samuel R. et al. (2021) A Cooperative DNA CatalystJournal of the American Chemical Society
- Clamons, Samuel;Qian, Lulu et al. (2020) Programming and simulating chemical reaction networks on a surfaceJournal of the Royal Society Interface
- Tikhomirov, Grigory;Petersen, Philip et al. (2018) Triangular DNA Origami TilingsJournal of the American Chemical Society
- Petersen, Philip;Tikhomirov, Grigory et al. (2018) Information-based autonomous reconfiguration in systems of interacting DNA nanostructuresNature Communications
- Brijder, Robert;Qian, Lulu (2018) PrefaceNatural Computing
- Cherry, Kevin M.;Qian, Lulu (2018) Scaling up molecular pattern recognition with DNA-based winner-take-all neural networksNature
Related Courses
2022-23
BE/CS 196 ab – Design and Construction of Programmable Molecular Systems
2021-22
ACM 11 – Introduction to Computational Science and Engineering
BE/CS 196 ab – Design and Construction of Programmable Molecular Systems
ACM/IDS 213 – Topics in Optimization
2020-21
ACM 11 – Introduction to Matlab and Mathematica
BE/CS 196 a – Design and Construction of Programmable Molecular Systems