Liu, Liang

Liang Liu
Assistant Professor
Bioinformatics
Phylogenetics, evolutionary biology, statistics.
Phylogenetics, evolutionary biology, statistics.
Population epigenomics and mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance.
Cancer genomics; human junk DNA; genomic instability.
Immunological carbohydrate-protein interactions studied by computational simulation and experimental methods.
Growth-defense tradeoff, phenylpropanoid metabolism and carbon allocation,
gene family evolution and functional diversification, alternative splicing and gene duplication.
Mechanisms of immunity and disease in Trypanosoma cruzi infection (Chagas Disease); Basic and applied biology of T. cruzi.
Use bioinformatics and comparative genomics to study relationships between the genomic DNA sequence and the organism’s physiological characteristics,and regulatory processes that govern the flow of genetic information.
Parasite genomics and the biology of genome evolution.
Evolutionary systems biology; protein kinase signaling in plants, pathogens and microbes. Evolution and classification of glycoenzymes.