Yanan Tian is an associate professor at Texas A&M University (College Station). He earned his B.S. in Agronomy and Ph.D. in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at South China Agricultural University in 1981 and 1984, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Microbiology at Rutgers University in 1992 and received postdoctoral training under the mentoring of Dr. Michael Gallo at UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Jersey, USA. His research interests include the mechanisms of regulation of xenobiotic metabolism mechanisms and the roles of noncoding RNA in regulating the pathogenesis of diseases such as type 2 diabetes and sepsis.