Chuan Xue

Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Contact Info

School of Mathematics
127 Vincent Hall
206 Church St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA

Office: Vincent Hall 539
Email: cxue@umn.edu
Phone: 612-625-3570

Education and Employment

BS in Computational Mathematics, Peking University, 2003
PhD in Mathematics, University of Minnesota, 2008
Postdoc, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University, 2008-2011
Assistant and Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Ohio State University, 2011-2020
Associate Director, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University, 2019-2020
Associate Professor, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, 2020-now

Research Interests

Mathematical Biology, Applied Mathematics

Group and opportunities

We are a group of researchers who are interested in discovering the underlying principles of life, using mathematics, in collaboration with several experimental labs. Our recent main focus is to develop new mathematical models and methods to address questions arising from cell biology and neuroscience. We always welcome highly motivated postdocs, graduate students and undergraduate students to join us. If you are interested in learning more about what we do and how we have fun, please feel free to contact me by email. Our research has been continuously supported by NSF and other sources since 2013.

Important Links

The Cold Place Mathematical Biology Reading Club (new)
The Cold Place Mathematical Biology Seminar (new)

Selected publications

X. Lai, A. Brown, and C. Xue. A stochastic model that explains axonal organelle pileups induced by a reduction of molecular motors. J Royal Soc. Interface, 2018. Link to PDF

C. Xue and G. Jameson. Recent mathematical models of axonal transport. Stochastic Processes, Multiscale Modeling, and Numerical Methods for Computational Cellular Biology. Springer, Cham, 2017. 265-285. Link

C. Xue, B. Shtylla, and A. Brown. A Stochastic Multiscale Model that Explains the Segregation of Axonal Microtubules and Neurofilaments in Neurological Diseases, PLoS Computational Biology, 2015. Link to Journal | typographical errors introduced by the publisher

A. Friedman, B. Hu, and C. Xue. On a multiphase multicomponent model of biofilm growth, Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., 211(1): 257-300, 2014. Link to Journal

A. Friedman, B. Hu, and C. Xue. Analysis of a mathematical model of ischemic cutaneous wounds, SIAM J. Math. Anal., Vol 42, Issue 5, pp. 2013-2040, 2010.

C. Xue, A. Friedman, and C. K. Sen. A mathematical model of ischemic cutaneous wounds, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol. 106, No. 39, pp. 16782-16787, 2009. (with PNAS highlight) PDF

Other publications please see my Google Scholar page.

Courses at Minnesota

Spring 2021: Math 5490 Topics in Applied Mathematics -- Mathematical Models in Biology
         Lecture time: TTh 12:20pm - 2:15pm. Office hour: WF 12:20pm - 2:15pm. Syllabus

Awards and recognizations

Jiang Zehan Scholarship, Peking University, 2002
NSF Career Award, 2016
PECASE Award, 2019

Quotes

"Mathematics is biology's next microscope, only better; biology is mathematics' next physics, only better" --- Joel E. Cohen

"All models are wrong, but some are useful" --- George Box