News

03.17.2026
Congratulations to Dr. Xiong, Dr. Bajracharya, Ranjeeta, and Anupa! Our paper on the PIF4 sequence-function relationship has been accepted by Nature Communications and published online. Special thanks to two brilliant undergraduate students, Eden Bayer and Alyssa Stoner, for their hard work on characterizing some of the transgenic plants, and to our collaborators at USDA-ARS and UCR. Check the link here for details.

03.06.2026
Congratulations to Berry! Our review paper on techniques for studying protein-protein interactions has been accepted by Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences and published online. We appreciate Dr. Sixue Chen’s instructions and collaborations as well as contributions from Dr. Yatendra Singh and Sibesh Maharjan from the Chen lab. Check the link here for details.

01.19.2026
A new undergraduate student, Shuiba, joins the Qiu lab! Welcome on board!

10.08.2025
Congratulations to Ranjeeta! Through collaboration with Dr. Sayaka Miura’s group in our home department, Ranjeeta co-authored a paper evaluating the effectiveness of various computational tools previously developed to predict DNA-binding proteins. The paper has been accepted by the International Journal of Molecular Sciences and published online. Check this link for details.

09.03.2025
We submitted a preprint reporting the unexpected function of PIF4 in Arabidopsis thermomorphogenesis. It’s now available on the Research Square platform.