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Name:
Xigang Liu
Education:
 
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Academic title:
Professor
Postal Code:
050021
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Mailing Address:
286 Huaizhong Road, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China
E-mail:
xgliu@sjziam.ac.cn

Resume:

Education

09/2000-07/2004 Ph.D Major: Molecular and cell biology

College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal University

09/1998-08/2000 M.S. Major: Molecular and Cell Biology

College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal University

09/1993-07/1997 B.S. Major: Biology

College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal University

Positions and employment

10/2012-Present : Principal Investigator

The Center for Agricultural Resources Research

Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of CAS

07/2011-09/2012 : Assistant Specialist Type III

Department of Botany and Plant Sciences

University of California, Riverside

08/2009-06/2011: Visiting Assistant Researcher

Department of Botany and Plant Sciences

University of California, Riverside

11/2007- 08/2009: Postdoctoral Research Scholar,

Department of Botany and Plant Sciences

University of California, Riverside

08/2004-10/2007: Postdoctoral fellow,

National Institute of Biological Sciences (NIBS), Beijing

08/1997-07/1998: Teacher,

Hebei Shenzhou Middle School,

Hebei, China

Research:

Our research is focused on: 1,the molecular mechanism of plant meristem maintenance and determinacy in monocot and dicot; 2, the molecular mechanisms of plant root development and the response to abiotic stress.

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Article:

Zhang K, Wang R, Zi H, Li Y, Cao X, Li D, Guo L, Tong J, Pan Y, Jiao Y, Liu R, Xiao L, Liu X. (2018) AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR3 Regulates Floral Meristem Determinacy By Repressing Cytokinin Biosynthesis and Signaling. Plant Cell. pii: tpc.00705.2017. doi: 10.1105/tpc.17.00705.

Guan C, Wu B, Yu T, Wang Q, Krogan NT, Liu X, Jiao Y.(2017) Spatial Auxin Signaling Controls Leaf Flattening in Arabidopsis. Curr Biol. 9;27(19):2940-2950.

Li D, Palanca AMS, Won SY, Gao L, Feng Y, Vashisht AA, Liu L, Zhao Y, Liu X, Wu X, Li S, Le B, Kim YJ, Yang G, Li S, Liu J, Wohlschlegel JA, Guo H, Mo B, Chen X, Law JA.(2017) The MBD7 complex promotes expression of methylated transgenes without significantly altering their methylation status. eLife 6:e19893 doi: 10.7554/eLife.19893

Li D, Fu X, Guo L, Huang Z, Li Y, Liu Y, He Z, Cao X, Ma X, Zhao M, Zhu G, Xiao L, Wang H, Chen X, Liu R and Liu X.2016 FAR-RED ELONGATED HYPOCOTYL3 activates SEPALLATA2 but inhibits CLAVATA3 to regulate meristem determinacy and maintenance in Arabidopsis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 113(33):9375-80. 

Liu L, Li B, Liu X.2016 FAR-RED ELONGATED HYPOCOTYL3 promotes floral meristem determinacy in Arabidopsis. Plant Signal Behav. 11(10):e1238545. 

Huang Z, Shi T, Zheng B, Yumul RE, Liu X, You C, Gao Z, Xiao L, Chen X.2016 APETALA2 antagonizes the transcriptional activity of AGAMOUS in regulating floral stem cells in Arabidopsis thaliana. New Phytol. doi: 10.1111/nph.14151. 

Cao X, He Z, Guo L, Liu X. (2015) Epigenetic mechanisms are critical for the regulation of WUSCHEL expression in floral meristems. Plant Physiology  168(4):1189-96.  

Liu X*, Dinh TT, Li D, Shi B, Li Y, Cao X, Guo L, Pan Y, Jiao Y, Chen X*.(2014) AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR 3 integrates the functions of AGAMOUS and APETALA2 in floral meristem determinacy. Plant Jounal. 80(4):629-41. (* Corresponding Author)  

   Selected for F1000 Prime 

Liu X, Gao L, Dinh TT, Shi T, Li D, Wang R, Guo L, Xiao L, Chen X.(2014) DNA topoisomerase I affects polycomb group protein-mediated epigenetic regulation and plant development by altering nucleosome distribution in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell. 26(7):2803-17. 

Dinh TT, Gao L, Liu X, Li D, Li S, Zhao Y, O'Leary M, Le B, Schmitz RJ, Manavella P, Li S, Weigel D, Pontes O, Ecker JR, Chen X.(2014) DNA topoisomerase 1α promotes transcriptional silencing of transposable elements through DNA methylation and histone lysine 9 dimethylation in Arabidopsis. PLoS Genetics. 3;10(7):e1004446  

Dinh TT, Luscher E, Li S, Liu X, Won SY, Chen X. (2014) Genetic screens for floral mutants in Arabidopsis thaliana: enhancers and suppressors. Methods Mol Biol. 1110:127-56.  

Li S, Liu L, Zhuang X, Yu Y, Liu X, Pan S, Raikhel N, Jiang L, Chen X. (2013) microRNAs inhibit the translation of target mRNAs on the endoplasmic reticulumin Arabidopsis. Cell 25;153(3):562-74.   

Dinh TT, O'Leary M, Won SY, Li S, Arroyo L, Liu X, Defries A, Zheng B, Cutler SR, Chen X.2013Generation of a luciferase-based reporter for CHH and CG DNA methylation in Arabidopsis thaliana. Silence. 5;4(1):1.   

Qiao Y, Liu L, Xiong Q, Flores C, Wong J, Shi J, Wang X, Liu X, Xiang Q, Jiang S, Zhang F, Wang Y, Judelson HS, Chen X, Ma W.2013Oomycete pathogens encode RNA silencing suppressors. Nat Genetics. 45(3):330-3.   

Yumul RE, Kim YJ, Liu X, Wang R, Ding J, Xiao L, Chen X.(2013) POWERDRESS and diversified expression of the MIR172 gene family bolster the floral stem cell network. PLoS Genetics 9(1):e1003218.   

Tang X, Bian S, Tang M, Lu Q, Li S, Liu X, Tian G, Nguyen V, Tsang E, Wang A, Rothstein SJ, Chen X, Cui Y.(2012)  MicroRNA-Mediated Repression of the Seed Maturation Program during Vegetative Development in ArabidopsisPLoS Genetics: 8(11):e1003091,    

Dinh TT, Girke T, Liu X, Yant L, Schmid M, Chen X.(2012) The floral homeotic protein APETALA2 recognizes and acts through an AT-rich sequence element. Development;139 1978-1986  

Liu X, KimY, Muller R, Yumul RE. Liu C, Pan Y, Cao X, Goodrich J, Chen X. (2011) AGAMOUS terminates floral stem cell maintenance in Arabidopsis by directly repressing WUSCHEL through recruitment of Polycomb Group proteins. Plant Cell 23(10):3654-70.  

   Selected for F1000 Prime 

Ji L, Liu X, Yan J, Wang W, Yumul RE, Kim Y, Dinh TT, Liu J, Cui X, Zheng B, Agarwal M, Liu C, Cao X, Tang G and Chen X. (2011) ARGONAUTE10 and ARGONAUTE1 Regulate the Termination of Floral Stem Cells through Two microRNAs in Arabidopsis. PLoS Genetics 7 (3): e1001358.  

 

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