Education

Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology, BCMB Program, Johns Hopkins Medical School, 2005

Current position

He is a postdoc fellow in Department of Developmental Biology at Stanford. His research focuses on functional genomics in Caenorhabditis elegans.

Publications

1. Liu, X., Long, F., Peng, H., Aerni, S. J., Jiang, M., Sanchez-Blanco, A., Murray, J. I., Preston, E., Mericle, B., Batzoglou, S., Myers, E. W. and Kim, S. K. (2009). Analysis of cell fate from single-cell gene expression profiles in C. elegans. Cell 139(3): 623-633.
   
2. Long, F., Peng, H., Liu, X., Kim, S. K. and Myers, E. (2009). A 3D digital atlas of C. elegans and its application to single-cell analyses. Nat Methods 6(9): 667-672.
   
3. Long, F., Peng, H., Liu, X., Kim, S.K., and Myers, G. (2008). Automatic Recognition of Cells (ARC) for 3D images o[1]f C. elegans. Recomb.
   
4. Peng, H., Long, F., Liu, X., Kim, S. K. and Myers, E. W. (2008). Straightening Caenorhabditis elegans images. Bioinformatics 24(2): 234-242.
   
5. Liu, X., C.K. Lee, N.D. Clarke, and J.D. Lieb (2006) Quantification of chromatin contributions to DNA-binding site utilization. Genome Res. 16: 1517 – 1528
   
6. Liu, X., Noll, D. M., Lieb, J. D. and Clarke, N. D. (2005). DIP-chip: rapid and accurate determination of DNA-binding specificity. Genome Res 15(3): 421-427.
   
7. Liu, X. and Clarke, N. D. (2002). Rationalization of gene regulation by a eukaryotic transcription factor: calculation of regulatory region occupancy from predicted binding affinities. J Mol Biol 323(1): 1-8.
   
8. Linask, K. K., Ludwig, C., Han, M. D., Liu, X., Radice, G. L. and Knudsen, K. A. (1998). N-cadherin/catenin-mediated morphoregulation of somite formation. Dev Biol 202(1): 85-102.