{"id":5,"date":"2019-11-06T22:04:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T03:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/template-faculty01\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2023-06-07T15:35:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T19:35:02","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/txiang\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:28px\"><strong>We discover the biology that powers coral-algal symbiosis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Our laboratory has moved to the Department of Bioengineering at the University of California, Riverside. Please check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/thexianglab\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/thexianglab\">new website<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">We are broadly interested in host-microbe interactions. The dinoflagellate in the family Symbiodiniaceae forms a symbiotic relationship with many hosts including coral, anemones, jellyfish, and clams. They provide coral with photosynthetically fixed carbon while the coral supplies the algae with inorganic nutrients and a haven from predation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Our laboratory is interested in answering fundamental questions about the biology and metabolism of dinoflagellates.&nbsp;In particular, we apply systems biology (metabolomics, transcriptomics, genomics), cell biology, and genetic approaches to understand coral-algal symbiosis and toxin biosynthesis in red tide dinoflagellates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/lHgjHdsAPxbmYwZ1PEpbeSJiNglziYG99U8TAT5_Uhhi5CiRqYBzaTCdXFJrf-_ntJrNuwlMB8I5ywgGCFEdc19rwTwikVFZsPnfMxhWHVz7Rt0fXxk9ZOywT8AcOBqo5iPmUDoxNbc=s1600\" style=\"width: 500px\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We discover the biology that powers coral-algal symbiosis Our laboratory has moved to the Department of Bioengineering at the University of California, Riverside. Please check out our new website. We are broadly interested in host-microbe interactions. The dinoflagellate in the family Symbiodiniaceae forms a symbiotic relationship with many hosts including coral, anemones, jellyfish, and clams. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3117,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/txiang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/txiang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/txiang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/txiang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/txiang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":52,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/txiang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/txiang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/txiang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}