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Yu (Brandon) Xia

Academic title(s): 

Professor
Canada Research Chair in Computational and Systems Biology

Yu (Brandon) Xia
Contact Information
Email address: 
brandon.xia [at] mcgill.ca
Phone: 
514.398.5026
Office: 
McConnell Engineering Building, Room 360
Degree(s): 

Ph.D. Stanford University
B.S. Peking University

Areas of interest: 
  • Construction of genome-scale computer models of biomolecular networks with high spatial and temporal resolutions.
  • Use of genome-scale models to probe the biophysical and engineering principles of biological networks.
  • Use of genome-scale models to study the systems biology of diseases
  • Computational Structural Biology. Prediction and analysis of protein structure and function; evolutionary and design principles of proteins
  • Computational Systems Biology. Prediction and analysis of protein networks; evolutionary and design principles of protein networks.
  • Bioinformatics. Development and application of bioinformatics algorithms to analyze biological sequence, structural and functional data.
Courses: 
  • BIEN 310: Introduction to Biomolecular Engineering
  • BIEN 410: Computational Methods in Biomolecular Engineering
Selected publications: 

Estimating dispensable content in the human interactome. Ghadie MA, Xia Y. Nat. Commun. 10: 3205 (2019).

Structural principles within the human-virus protein-protein interaction network. Franzosa EA, Xia Y. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108: 10538-10543 (2011).

Structural determinants of protein evolution are context-sensitive at the residue level. Franzosa EA, Xia Y. Mol. Biol. Evol. 26: 2387-2395 (2009).

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