Qixin He

Title:

Assistant Professor

PhD Granting Institution:

University of Michigan

Contact:

Email Address: heqixin@purdue.edu
Office Phone: 765-494-3151
Lab Website Link: https://www.qixinhe.net

Primary Training Group:

Computational and Systems Biology

Secondary Training Groups:

Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases

Research Areas:

Infectious disease modeling, phylogenomics, antigen evolution, epitope prediction

Current Projects:

- Infectious disease modeling of multi-strain diseases - Drug resistance evolution in malaria - Innovative epitope prediction - Allergen evolution of house dust mites

Importance of Interdisciplinary Research:

Our lab integrates concepts and tools from population genetics, genomic evolution, and disease ecology and develops new methodologies to answer questions regarding antigen evolution, infectious disease modeling, and phylogenomics. We focus on utilizing data science and statistical modeling to tackle long-standing problems related to various aspects of infectious diseases and allergies.