Autumn Qiu, PhD profile page

Prof. Tian (Autumn) Qiu earned her Bachelor of Science in chemistry from Peking University and her PhD from the University of Minnesota. Autumn’s PhD studies focused on nanotoxicity mechanisms in environmental bacteria at the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology. She was a Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and worked on D-amino acids in the microbiome-gut-brain axis. She joined Michigan State University as an Assistant Professor in 2022. Her lab investigates interactions among environmental contaminants, microbial metabolism, and host responses using mass spectrometry, particularly MALDI-MS, integrated with animal models and toxicological analyses.