Liang Liu
Ph.D. Ohio State University
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University,
26 Oxford Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138
MCZ Room 500C
Tel: 617-496-9389
Fax: 617-495-5667
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Research Interests:
In my 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. In my postdoc, 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.
Recent Publications
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Edwards, S., Liu, L. and D.K. Pearl. High resolution species trees without concatenation. PNAS. (pdf)
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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.
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Wolfe, A.D., Randle, C.P., Liu, L. and Steiner, K.E. Phylogeny and biogeography of orobanchaceae. Folia Geobotanica, 2005, 40(115-125).
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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).