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							                                         Liang Liu
             Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University,
                            26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
                  Tel: (617)495-2471             Email: lliu@oeb.harvard.edu

EDUCATION
Ph.D., Biostatistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2006.
M.S., Statistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2005.
M.S., Neuroscience, The Capital University of Medicine, Beijing, China, 2000.
B.S., Clinical Medicine, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China, 1995.

EXPERIENCE
Post doctoral fellow at Harvard University (Sep 2006 - Sep 2007).
I am currently working on a project of species tree estimation in the department of
organismic and evolutionary biology at Harvard.

Research Assistant at The Ohio State University (April 2005-August 2006).
I worked on a Pfizer’s project to detect liver toxicity at early phase of a drug. We
proposed a Bayesian hierarchical model to estimate liver function for each person across
time. The empirical results indicated that our technique could detect liver toxicity earlier
than the other commonly used techniques. We also performed normality test and equal
variance test to check the assumptions of the model.

Teaching Assistant at The Ohio State University (2001-2003).
I was a teaching assistant of an undergraduate level statistical course. My responsibilities
included teaching the recitation session, reviewing on lecture notes, solving statistical
problems, holding office hour, and grading homework.

Manager and Editor at Beijing Hon Yuan Cooperation (April 2000-June 2000).
My duty was to summarize the symptom, diagnosis and treatment of common diseases
such as cancer and diabetes and input them into the database.

Pediatrician at Tianjin Children’s Hospital (1995-1997).

SKILLS
Computer: C, FORTRAN, S-plus, R and SAS.
Phylogenetic programs: PAUP, PHYLIP, MrBayes.
Molecular biological techniques: PCR, Microarray, Northern blotting, western blotting.

RESEARCH
Post Doctoral Research: I continue to extend the Bayesian hierarchical model I proposed
for estimating species trees in my dissertation. The research will first incorporate multiple
alleles feature in the current model to improve the estimation of ancestral population
sizes. I will then construct an efficient algorithm to search for the Maximum Likelihood
estimate of the species tree.

PhD Dissertation: I proposed a Bayesian hierarchical model to make inference about
species trees and I wrote a program BEST (Bayesian Estimation of Species Trees) in C
language to implement the model.
Master Thesis in Neuroscience: Protective effect of protein-free supernatant of brain
homogenate taken from hypoxia preconditioned mice on synaptosome membrane
exposed to hypoxia.

PUBLICATION
Edwards, S., Liu, L. and D.K. Pearl. High resolution species trees without concatenation..
PNAS (on review).

Liu, L. and D.K. Pearl. Species trees from gene trees: reconstructing Bayesian posterior
distributions of a species phylogeny using estimated gene tree distributions.
Mathematical Biosciences Institute Technical Report #53. The Ohio State University,
2006.

Wolfe, A.D., Randle, C.P., Liu, L. and Steiner, K.E. Phylogeny and biogeography of
orobanchaceae. Folia Geobotanica, 2005, 40(115-125).

Liu, L. and G. Lu. Protective effect of protein-free supernatant of brain homogenate taken
from hypoxia preconditioned mice on synaptosome membrane exposed to hypoxia.
Chinese Journal of Neuroscience, 2001, 17(373-375).

PRESENTATION
“species tree estimation” , Bayesian Invasion symposium at Yale university.

“Reconstructing posterior distributions of a species phylogeny using estimated gene tree
distributions”, Joint Statistical Meeting, 2005.

“Reconstructing posterior distributions of a species phylogeny using estimated gene tree
distributions”, Joint Statistical Meeting, 2006.

“Reconstructing posterior distributions of a species phylogeny using estimated gene tree
distributions”, Poster, Evolution Meeting, 2006.

AWARDS
Travel award for Joint Statistical Meeting, 2005.
Research Assistantship at the Ohio State University, (2003-2006).
Teaching Assistantship at the Ohio State University, (2001-2003).

REFERENCE
Scott V. Edwards, Professor, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology,
Harvard University. Tel: 617-384-8082. Email: sedwards@fas.harvard.edu

Dennis K. Pearl, Professor. Department of statistics, The Ohio State University.
Tel: (614)292-3887. Email: dkp@stat.ohio-state.edu

Steven N. MaceEachern, Professor, Department of statistics, The Ohio State University
Tel: (614)292-5843. Email: snm@stat.ohio-state.edu