Virology & Mycology
Open Access
ISSN: 2161-0517
ISSN: 2161-0517
Jie Liu
Scientist, Heyer Lab
University of California, USA
Dr. Jie Liu received her Ph.D. degree from the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Vermont, working with Dr. Scott W. Morrical on the biochemical and biophysical characterizations of recombination proteins in Bacteriophage T4. After completing her graduate work, she obtained a postdoctoral fellowship and worked with Dr. Wolf-Dietrich Heyer at the University of California, Davis, on the functional analysis of human breast cancer tumor suppressor protein BRCA2 and yeast Rad51 paralogs Rad55-Rad57 through a multi-disciplinary approach combining genetics, biochemistry, and structural work. She was one of the first to purify and characterize full-length human BRCA2 protein, revealing its mechanistic function in DNA repair and cancer prevention. She is currently working in Department of Microbiology at the University of California, Davis. Her research interest is to investigate the molecular and cellular roles of key recombination protein factors from Bacteriophage to human using a multi-disciplinary approach.
Dr. Jie Liu received her Ph.D. degree from the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Vermont, working with Dr. Scott W. Morrical on the biochemical and biophysical characterizations of recombination proteins in Bacteriophage T4. After completing her graduate work, she obtained a postdoctoral fellowship and worked with Dr. Wolf-Dietrich Heyer at the University of California, Davis, on the functional analysis of human breast cancer tumor suppressor protein BRCA2 and yeast Rad51 paralogs Rad55-Rad57 through a multi-disciplinary approach combining genetics, biochemistry, and structural work. She was one of the first to purify and characterize full-length human BRCA2 protein, revealing its mechanistic function in DNA repair and cancer prevention. She is currently working in Department of Microbiology at the University of California, Davis. Her research interest is to investigate the molecular and cellular roles of key recombination protein factors from Bacteriophage to human using a multi-disciplinary approach.