Qian Xu

Qian received her B.S. in Biopharmaceutics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2018. As a research assistant, she worked in Dr. Guohong Li’s lab at the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where she investigated the chromatin structure organization and DNA centromere sequence for the composition of the artificial chromosome. Qian began her Ph.D. studies at Yale in the fall of 2018 and joined the Chang lab in June 2019. She is excited to study neuronal regulation in cardio physiology and pathology, from molecular mechanisms to system neuronal circuits. She is also interested in modeling the organ physiology. Fun facts: I learned dancing for 10 years. I lived in the Amazon forest with indigenous people. I don’t like meat. I registered for the NYC Marathon successfully.