Yang Liu
Assistant Professor
Shenzhen University
Yang Liu is an assistant professor/principal investigator of Institute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University, China. He aims to run a lab for system microbiology, to integrate basic microbiological information with multi-omics and mathematics to create an integrated model of how a microbial cell or community functions.
Yang has a broad interests about biology. He believes that any advances in mathematics, physics, and chemistry would serve as tools for the ultimate purposes to fully understand Life on Earth and find extraterrestrial life.
Yang observed the responses of rice root cells to Cadium, and obtained bacterial and fungal isolates from marine environments for hazardous substance removal at Yangzhou University, China during his undergraduate and graduate studies. He investigated the effects of interactions between meiofauna, microalgae and bacteria on nitrogen cycles at EcoLab Toulouse, France. During his post-doc and research fellowship in Shenzhen University, Yang started his fascination about multi-omics data-driven approaches for hunting novel microbial lineages e.g., Asgard archaea, and understanding the microbial interactions that drive the carbon, nitrogen and sulfur cycles in various ecosystems, mainly coastal marine sediments.
- Microbial interactions
- Microbial evolution
- Bioinformatics
- R language
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Ph.D in Functional Ecology, 2016
Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, France
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Master in Environmental Science, 2012
Yangzhou University, China
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Bachelor in Agriculture Resources and Environment, 2009
Yangzhou University, China