
Jian Liu, Ph.D.
websiteDepartment of Cell Biology
Center for Cell Dynamics
855 N. Wolfe Street
456 Rangos
Baltimore, MD 21205
The central theme of my research is to understand how mechanical actions feedback to biochemical pathways in cellular processes, and how such mechanochemical crosstalk among key cellular players governs spatial-temporal regulation and shapes cell functions. I confront these challenges by bringing together theoretical and computational studies, rooted in statistical mechanics, with a diversity of biological experiments. My current research interest spans three cellular processes – cell migration, membrane trafficking, and cell division.
Alumni:
2011-2016 Jing Chen, Ph.D., Tenure-track assistant professor at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
2012-2014 Alex Szatmary, Ph.D., Assistant professor at King’s College, PA
2012-2018 Zhanghan Wu, Ph.D., Data scientist at K12, VA
2015-2018 Donovan Ruth, Ph.D., Data scientist at Affiniti, DC
2015-2018 Seyit Kale, Ph.D., Postdoc at NIH, Bethesda, MD
2010-2012 Daniel B. Smith, Ph.D., Staff software engineer at Datadog, NYC
2013-2017 Thomas Stephens, Ph.D., Research scientist at Teledyne Scientific and Imaging, Chapel Hill, NC