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The first 3 years of my graduate study were spent primarily on engineering ribozyme-based RNA regulators in mammalian cells. Although I have created a few unpublished RNA regulators that work minimally (by my standard), my main achievement was the development of a method to directly select physiologically active ribozymes in mammalian cells, and a kinetic model to analyze and direct such selections. I then | The first 3 years of my graduate study were spent primarily on engineering ribozyme-based RNA regulators in mammalian cells. Although I have created a few unpublished RNA regulators that work minimally (by my standard), my main achievement was the development of a method to directly select physiologically active ribozymes in mammalian cells, and a kinetic model to analyze and direct such selections. I then extended this kinetic model to analyze and predict the performance of ribozyme- and deoxyribozyme-based sensors in vitro and in vivo. | ||
Since late 2008, I became interested in enzyme-free DNA circuits developed by the Winfree Lab and the Pierce Lab in Caltech. I have started designing and executing similar circuits for the purpose of biosensing and pattern formation. | Since late 2008, I became interested in enzyme-free DNA circuits initially developed by the Winfree Lab and the Pierce Lab in Caltech. I have started designing and executing similar circuits for the purpose of biosensing and pattern formation. | ||
After graduation, I stayed in the Ellington Lab to keep working on DNA circuits. | After graduation, I stayed in the Ellington Lab to keep working on DNA circuits. |
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Xi Chen
Xi Chen is currently a post-doc fellow in the lab of Andrew D. Ellington in the University of Texas at Austin. He is also a visiting fellow of the Yin Lab in Wyss Institute of Harvard University.
Research
The first 3 years of my graduate study were spent primarily on engineering ribozyme-based RNA regulators in mammalian cells. Although I have created a few unpublished RNA regulators that work minimally (by my standard), my main achievement was the development of a method to directly select physiologically active ribozymes in mammalian cells, and a kinetic model to analyze and direct such selections. I then extended this kinetic model to analyze and predict the performance of ribozyme- and deoxyribozyme-based sensors in vitro and in vivo.
Since late 2008, I became interested in enzyme-free DNA circuits initially developed by the Winfree Lab and the Pierce Lab in Caltech. I have started designing and executing similar circuits for the purpose of biosensing and pattern formation.
After graduation, I stayed in the Ellington Lab to keep working on DNA circuits.
Selected Publications
(Note: * denotes corresponding author or co-corresponding author)
- Eckhoff G, Codrea V, Ellington AD, Chen X*. (2010) Beyond allostery: Catalytic regulation of a deoxyribozyme through an entropy-driven DNA amplifier. J Syst Chem. 1:13
- Chen X, Ellington AD. (2010) Shaping up nucleic acid computation (Review). Curr Opin Biotechnol. 21(4):392-400
- Chen X, Ellington AD. (2009) Design Principles for Ligand-Sensing, Conformation-Switching Ribozymes. PLoS Comput Biol. 5(12):e1000620
- Chen X, Denison L, Levy M, Ellington AD. (2009) Direct selection for ribozyme cleavage activity in cells RNA;15(11):2035-45
- Chen X, Li N, Ellington AD. (2007) Ribozyme catalysis of metabolism in the RNA world. (Review) Chem Biodivers. 4(4):633-55.
- Chen X, Wang Y, Liu Q, Zhang Z, Fan C, He L. (2006) Construction of molecular logic gates with a DNA-cleaving deoxyribozyme. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 45(11):1759-62.
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Contact
xichen at mail dot utexas dot edu