Overview


Professor Xiao's research interests lie in the areas of biosensors and biomaterials and their applications in solving a broad range of problems in vitro and in vivo. The goals of her research are directed towards employing new biomaterials, nanomaterials and new platforms to design ultra-sensitive sensors for specific in vitro or in vivo sensing in complex sample at the point-of-care. High specificity is achieved via biotechnology platforms - innovative selection technology (SELEX) are used to generate bio-functionalized elements capable of performing specific target recognition, and high sensitivity is obtained with subsequent biomolecular cascading, self-assembled amplifications. Such innovation will pave the way to bring highly sensitive sensors with great specificity into portable micro/nano-sized devices, which will impact the most pressing problems associated with analytical life sciences, including clinical diagnosis, drug abuse test, food safety and environmental pollution monitoring.

Lab News

04/17 - Congratulations to Bhargav Guntupalli who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on 04/20.

03/17 – Congratulations to Haixiang Yu who has been awarded the prestigious FIU Provost Award for Outstanding Paper or Manuscript (STEM) at FIU’s 2017 Annual Scholarly Forum during Graduate Student Appreciation Week (GSAW).

03/17 – Haixiang Yu and Juan Canoura were winners of oral presentation prize at FIU’s 2017 Annual Scholarly Forum during Graduate Student Appreciation Week (GSAW).

03/17 – Haixiang Yu gave an oral presentation on “A cooperative-binding split aptamer assay for rapid, specific and ultra-sensitive fluorescence detection of cocaine in saliva” at 2017 Pittcon Meeting.

03/17 – Daniel Roncancio gave an oral presentation on “A label-free aptamer-fluorophore assembly for highly sensitive and specific detection of cocaine” at 2017 Pittcon Meeting.

02/17 - Congratulations to Haixiang Yu whose paper entitled “A broadly applicable assay for rapidly and accurately quantifying DNA surface coverage on diverse particles” has been published in Bioconjugate Chemistry.

12/16 - Congratulations to Pinping Liang whose patent has been published (Patent No. US 20160376631 A1).

11/16 - Congratulations to Janak Paudyal who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on 11/09.

11/16 - Congratulations to Bhargav Guntupalli whose patent has been published (US 20160329121 A1).

09/16 - Congratulations to Haixiang Yu who continuously received NIJ Graduate Research Fellowship in STEM.

07/16 - Congratulations to Haixiang Yu whose paper entitled “A cooperative-binding split aptamer assay for rapid, specific and ultra-sensitive fluorescence detection of cocaine in saliva” has been published in Chemical Science.

7/16 - Congratulations to Pingping Liang who is being recognized as FIU Worlds Ahead Graduate.

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