Crop plants’ genome orgin, studying their evolution and organization at the DNA to genome levels: large-scale processes with chromosomes, polyploidy and DNA sequence. Microscopy, image processing, bioinformatics, in situ hybridization, molecular genetics and phylogenetics. Research interests: Crop genome origin in Eleusine, Sorghum, Panicum, Avena and Chloridoideae phylogeny.

South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences

March 2002–March 2005. Ph.D.: Botany. Dissertation title: Systematic and evolutionary studies of the subfamily Chloridoideae (Poaceae).

July 1998–July 2001. Master of Science: Botany. Dissertation title: Studies on the taxonomy (South China) and phytogeography of the subfamily Chloridoideae (Gramineae).

Harbin Normal University, Department of Biology

July 1993–July 1997. Bachelor of Science: Biology education. Dissertation title: Studies of gland hairs and secretion micromorphology in Labiatae plants.

Master's Supervisor

April 2009–Present. Bin Jiang, Yu Zhang, Huan Liu, Lei Lin, Xiangying Zhou, Xiaoyu Li.

Outstanding Postgraduate Tutor of Guangzhou Education Base of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2018

1.      Heslop-Harrison JS, Schwarzacher T, Liu Q*. Polyploidy: its consequences and enabling role in plant diversification and evolution. Annals of Botany 2023, 131(1): 1–9.

2.      Wang ZW, Rouard M, Biswas MK, Droc G, Cui DL, Roux N, Baurens FC, Ge XJ, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JS*, Liu Q*. A chromosome-level reference genome of Ensete glaucum gives insight into diversity and chromosomal and repetitive sequence evolution in the Musaceae. GigaScience 2022, 11(1): giac027.

3.      Liu Q*, Li XY, Li MZ, Xu WK, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JS*. Comparative chloroplast genome analyses of Avena: insights into evolutionary dynamics and phylogeny. BMC Plant Biology 2020, 20(1): 406.

4.      Liu Q*, Li XY, Zhou XY, Li MZ, Zhang FJ, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JS*. The repetitive DNA landscape in Avena (Poaceae): chromosome and genome evolution defined by major repeat classes in whole-genome sequence reads. BMC Plant Biology 2019, 19(1): 226.

5.      Liu Q*, Lin L, Zhou XY, Peterson PM, Wen J*. Unraveling the evolutionary dynamics of ancient and recent polyploidization events in Avena (Poaceae). Scientific Reports 2017, 7(1): 41944. 

Microscopy, image processing, bioinformatics, in situ hybridization, molecular genetics and phylogenetics. Research interests: Crop genome origin in Eleusine, Sorghum, Panicum, Avena and Chloridoideae phylogeny.

Liu Q*, Xiaoyu Li, Xiangying Zhou, Mingzhi Li, Fengjiao Zhang, Trude Schwarzacher, Pat Heslop Harrison. The repetitive DNA landscape in Avena (Poaceae): chromosome and genome evolution defined by major repeat classes in whole-genome sequence reads. Oral presentation at Plant and Animal Genome Conference XXVII. W750. San Diego, USA. 12 to 16 January 2019.

Liu Q*, Liu H. 2015. Multicolor Genomic in situ Hybridization Identifies Genomic Relationships of Sorghum bicolor (Poaceae) and Closely Related Species. Oral presentation at the 10th European Cytogenetics Conference. Strasbourg, France. 4 to 7 July 2015.

Jiang B, Liu Q*. 2011. Distribution of Eleusine indica AA Genome on E. coracana (Poaceae) Chromosomes Identified by Genomic in situ Hybridization and Optimization Method of Probe Length. Abstract collections of the 10th young Chinese Botanists Symposium on Botanical Systematics and Evolution. Kunming.

Zhang Y, Jiang B, Liu Q*. 2011. Geographical distribution of Themeda Forssk. (Poaceae). Abstract collections of the 10th young Chinese Botanists Symposium on Botanical Systematics and Evolution. Kunming.

Liu Q. 2008. Lemma micromorphology of the Chloridoideae (Poaceae). Abstract Collection of the Fourth International Conference on the Comparative Biology of the Monocotyledons and 5th International Symposium on Grass ematics and Evolution, Copenhagen, Denmark. Pp. 84.

Liu Q, Peterson PM, Travis C, Zhao NX, Hao G. 2006. Inflorescence diversification in “finger clade” (Chloridoideae, Poaceae). Oral presentation at the the 9th young Chinese Botanists Symposium on Botanical Systematics and Evolution. Xi’an, Shaanxi.

Visiting Scholar Fellow, November 2016–October 2017. Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester. Collaborator: Pat Heslop Harrison.

Project title: The Repetitive DNA Landscape in Avena (Poaceae).

Funds: China Scholarship Council. No. 201604910096.

Visiting Scholar Fellow, July 2012–December 2013. Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). Collaborators: Paul M. Peterson and Jun Wen.

Project title: Phylogeny of Sorghum (Poaceae) and the origin of cultivated sorghum and Johnsongrass.

Funds: Smithsonian Institution’s Small Grant Program. No. 2012-136.

Visiting Scholar Fellow, July 2009–July 2010. Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). Collaborator: Paul M. Peterson.

Project title: Phylogeny of Eleusine (Poaceae) and the origin of finger millet based on nuclear Pepc4 and EF-1α sequences.

Funds: National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration No. 8087-06 to PMP and China Scholarship Council No. 2008-3027 to QL.

Visiting Scholar Fellow, June–July 2006. Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History. Collaborator: Paul M. Peterson.

Project title: Phylogenetics of the grass ‘Aveneae-type plastid DNA clade’ (Poaceae: Pooideae, Poeae) based on plastid and nuclear ribosomal DNA sequence data

Fund: Smithsonian Institution Short-Term Visitor Award to QL.

Overseas Distinguished Scholar Project, Y861041001 (2018.8.1–2023.7.31) Collaborator: Prof. Pat Heslop Harrison

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