Areas of Focus
- Silage maize breeding
- Molecular mechanisms of hybrid vigor
- Identification and application of genes and regulatory sequences related to important agronomic traits in maize
Work Experience
- 2019-2022 - Chinese Academy of Sciences, Postdoctoral Researcher
- 2022-present - Beijing Agricultural College, Lecturer
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2008 - Bachelor of Science: Beijing Forestry University
- 2011 - Master of Agriculture: China Agricultural University
- 2016 - PhD in Agriculture: China Agricultural University
- First to implement ChIA-PET 3D genomics in plants, revealing chromatin interactions in maize genome.
Publications
- Conservation and variability of long-range interactions in structurally diverse maize genomes, Han Liu et al.
- Evolutionary and functional genomics of DNA methylation in maize domestication and improvement, Gen Xu, Jing Lyu, Qing Li, Han Liu, Dafang Wang, Mei Zhang, Nathan M. Springer, Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra & Jinliang Yang, 2020
- Long-range interactions between proximal and distal regulatory regions in maize, En Li, Han Liu, Liangliang Huang, Xiangbo Zhang, Xiaomei Dong, Weibin Song, Haiming Zhao & Jinsheng Lai, 2019
- Identification of minor effect QTLs for plant architecture related traits using super high density genotyping and large recombinant inbred population in maize (Zea mays), Baobao Wang, Han Liu, Zhipeng Liu, Xiaomei Dong, Jinjie Guo, Wei Li, Jing Chen, Chi Gao, Yanbin Zhu, Xinmei Zheng, Zongliang Chen, Jian Chen, Weibin Song, Andrew Hauck & Jinsheng Lai, 2018
- Extensive intraspecific gene order and gene structural variations between Mo17 and other maize genomes, Silong Sun, Yingsi Zhou, Jian Chen, Junpeng Shi, Haiming Zhao, Hainan Zhao, Weibin Song, Mei Zhang, Yang Cui, Xiaomei Dong, Han Liu, Xuxu Ma, Yinping Jiao, Bo Wang, Xuehong Wei, Joshua C. Stein, Jeff C. Glaubitz, Fei Lu, Guoliang Yu, Chengzhi Liang, Kevin Fengler, Bailin Li, Antoni Rafalski, Patrick S. Schnable, Doreen H. Ware, Edward S. Buckler & Jinsheng Lai, 2018