Bian Liu

  • Position: Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Hometown: Shandong, China

  • Research Projects:

    1. Regulation of endosomal trafficking of AMPA receptors

    2. Optogenetic control of synaptic plasticity

    3. Super-resolution imaging of AMPA receptors and interacting proteins during basal transmission and synaptic plasticity

  • Publications:

    1. Diering, G.H., Heo, S., Hussain, N., Liu, B., and Huganir, R.L. (2016). Extensive phosphorylation of AMPA receptors in neurons. PNAS 113, E4920-E4927

    2. Gu, Y., Chiu, S.-L.*, Liu, B.*, Wu, P.-H.*, Delannoy, M., Lin, D.T., Wirtz, D., and Huganir, R.L. (2016). Differential Vesicular Sorting of AMPA and GABAA Receptors. PNAS 113, E922-E931. (* Equal contribution)

    3. Bell, J. C.*, Liu, B.*, and Kowalczykowski, S.C. (2015). Imaging and energetics of single SSB-ssDNA molecules reveal intramolecular condensation and insight into RecOR function. ELife 4, e08646. (* Equal contribution)

    4. Liu, B., Baskin, R., and Kowalczykowski, S.C. (2013). DNA Unwinding Heterogeneity by RecBCD Results from Static Molecules able to Equilibrate. Nature 500, 482-485.

    5. Tian, N., Zhang, L., Liu, B., Wang, P., Li, Y., and Ma, W. (2012). Four-dimensional visualization and quantitative analysis of meiotic spindle movements in live mouse oocytes. Journal of Microscopy 247, 252-258

    6. Yang, L., Handa, N., Liu, B., Dillingham, M.S., Wigley, D.B., and Kowalczykowski, S.C. (2012). Alteration of χ recognition by RecBCD reveals a regulated molecular latch and suggests a channel-bypass mechanism for biological control. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109, 8907-8912.

    7. Amitani, I.*, Liu, B.*, Dombrowski, C.C., Baskin, R.J., and Kowalczykowski, S.C. (2010). Watching individual proteins acting on single molecules of DNA. Methods Enzymol 472, 261- 291. (* Equal authorship)