Liyuan Liu

Titles

Associate Research Scientist

Liyuan is an Associate Research Scientist in the lab focusing on the ‘Towards Life with a Reduced Protein Alphabet’ project. He received his PhD in Genetics from the Kunming Institute of Zoology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and is interested in developing new bioengineering strategies. In the laboratory, he performs recombineering and variant fitness measurements.


Education History

University Of Chinese Academy Of Sciences (2014-2017)


Publications

(# denotes equal contribution)

Liu, L.#, Huang, Y.#, & Wang, H. H. (2023). Fast and efficient template-mediated synthesis of genetic variants. Nature Methods, 20(6), 841–848.

Wang, Q.#, Guo, Y.#, Liu, L.#, Schwanz, L.T., …, Wang, H.H., Liu, L., Ho, D.D. (2023a). Antigenicity and receptor affinity of SARS-CoV-2 BA.2.86 spike. Nature, 624(7992), 639–644.

Wang, Q.#, Iketani, S.#, Li, Z.#, Liu, L.#, Guo, Y.#, Huang, Y., ... & Ho, D. D. (2023b). Alarming antibody evasion properties of rising SARS-CoV-2 BQ and XBB subvariants. Cell,186, 279-286 e8.

Iketani, S.#, Liu, L.#, Guo, Y.#, Liu, L.#, Chan, J. F. W.#, Huang, Y., ... & Ho, D. D. (2022). Antibody evasion properties of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron sublineages. Nature, 604(7906), 553-556.

Liu, L.#, Iketani, S.#, Guo, Y.#, Chan, J. F. W.#, Wang, M.#, Liu, L.#, ... & Ho, D. D. (2022). Striking antibody evasion manifested by the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2. Nature, 602(7898), 676-681.

Cerutti, G.#, Guo, Y.#, Liu, L.#, Liu, L.#, Zhang, Z., Luo, Y., ... & Shapiro, L. (2022). Cryo-EM structure of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron spike. Cell reports, 38(9), 110428.