Le Liu

I am a highly motivated, results-driven bioinformatician with a strong collaborative spirit, deeply passionate about utilizing computational methods and cutting-edge sequencing and imaging technologies to address complex biological questions.

• In-depth knowledge and/or extensive experience of
  Sequencing technologies (Single-cell/nucleus Transcriptomics, Bulk RNA-seq)
• Machine Learning - based image analysis
• computational environmental operation (Linux/High-Performance Cluster), platform building (R Shiny App)
• CRISPR/Cas9 system and guide RNA design
• Communication on both the computational and biological aspects of the projects
• Quantitative Fluorescence Microscopy
• Molecular and Cell Biology

Seek a position in Computational Biology/Bioinformatics starting in summer 2024.

• 04/05/23, CNS Leadership Fellow, College of Natural Sciences (CNS) at UMass Amherst, one reception across 20 graduate programs.
• 03/23, Albert L. Delisle Scholarship, Plant Biology Program, UMass Amherst
• 02/23, Diversity Travel Awards for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows, College of Natural Sciences (CNS) at UMass Amherst
• 01/23, Lotta M. Crabtree fellowship, Lotta M. Crabtree Trust
• 05/22-08/22, USDA Hatch/CAFE Supplemental funding Support, Development and Physiology of the Stomatal Complex in Grasses
• 02/22, Lotta M. Crabtree fellowship, Lotta M. Crabtree Trust
• 08/21, Gilgut fellowship, Plant Biology Program, UMass Amherst
• 07/2015, Honorable Mention in National Speech Contest on TV and Internet, The Speech and Eloquence Association of China
• 11/2017, National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of P. R. China
• 04/2016, The Star of Eloquence, Northwest A&F University
• 10/2015, Excellent Student Scholarship (level II), Northwest A&F University

Le Liu, M. Arif Ashraf, Taylor Morrow, Michelle R. Facette , A receptor-like protein PAN2 is required for ABA-mediated stomatal closure via Ca2+ dependent pathway. (accepted in New Phytologist)

Michelle Jimenez , Elisa Gagliano , Le Liu , Anastasia Andriyash, MaryAnn Jaramillo, Antonia Gray, David Hanson, and Michelle Facette, Genetic variation in stomatal response rates across maize inbred lines (manuscript preparation, equal contribution) 

M. Arif Ashraf, Le Liu, Michelle R. Facette, A polarized nuclear position specifies the correct division plane during maize stomatal development Plant Physiology, https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiad329 

Gray A, Le Liu and Facette M (2020), Flanking Support: How Subsidiary Cells Contribute to Stomatal Form and Function. Front. Plant Sci. 11:881. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00881

Qiong Nan , Liang Hong , Janette Mendoza , Le Liu, Amit Fulzele, Amanda Wright, Eric Bennett, Carolyn Rasmussen and Michelle Facette, The OPAQUE1/DISCORIDA2 myosin XI is required for phragmoplast guidance during asymmetric cell division in maize. the Plant Cell, https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad099