Liang Liu
Assistant Professor
- 242 Statistics Building
- Athens, GA
- Voice: 706-542-3309
- Fax: 706-542-3391
- lliu [at] uga [dot] 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
Research Interests
My research interests include phylogenetics, modeling biological data, statistical analysis of molecular data, and parallel computing. I am particularly interested in reconstructing species phylogenies from multilocus sequences. I and my colleagues have developed several phylogenetic methods for estimating the evolutionary history of species.
Other Information
Recent Publications
(In Press). Expression of a Bee-Venom phospholipase A2 from Apis cerana cerana in the Baculovirus-insect cell.
Journals of Zhejiang University Science.
(2010). Phybase: an R package for species tree analysis.
Bioinformatics.
(2010). Bayesian estimation of species trees: a practical guide to optimal sampling and analysis.
(, Ed.).Estimating species trees.
(2009). Coalescent methods for estimating multilocus phylogenetic trees.
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 53(1), 320-328.
(2009). Estimating species phylogenies using coalescence times among sequences.
Systematic Biology. 58(5), 468-477.
(2009). Phylogenetic Analysis in the Anomaly Zone.
Systematic Biology. 58(4), 452-460.
(2009). Maximum tree: a consistent estimator of the species tree.
Journal of Mathematical Biology. 60(1), 95-106.
(2009). Quasi-likelihood for Right-Censored Data in the Generalized Linear Model.
Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods. 38, 2187-2200.
(2008). Estimating species trees using multiple-allele DNA sequence data.
Evolution. 62(8), 2080-2091.
(2008). Multilocus phylogenetics of a rapid radiation in the genus Thomomys (Rodentia:Geomyidae).
Systematic Biology. 57, 294-310.
