Colleges & Faculties

I. Personal information

Ziyan Liu, Ph.D, Associate Professor and Master's Supervisor in the Horticulture Department of the College of Plant Science and Technology, Beijing University of Agriculture (BUA).

II. Research Interests:

Molecular Mechanisms of Plant Stress Responses (using tomato, tobacco, maize, etc., as research subjects)

III. Education:

Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences, Hebei Normal University, September 2007 - June 2011

Ph.D in Botany, China Agricultural University, September 2011 - June 2017

IV. Work Experience:

Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, July 2017 - July 2019

Assistant Researcher, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, August 2019 - July 2021

Lecturer, Beijing Agricultural College, August 2021 - December 2022

Associate Professor, Beijing Agricultural College, January 2023 - present

V. Contact Information:

Email: liuziyan8028@163.com

VI. Publications:

1. Liu, Z., Hu, T., Yu, C., Tan, W., Shen, Y., and Duan, L. (2023). Design of aminoethoxyvinylglycine functional analogues to delay postharvest ripening of tomato fruit. Postharvest Biology and Technology 195.

2. Liu, Z., Li, Z., Wu, S., Yu, C., Wang, X., Wang, Y., Peng, Z., Gao, Y., Li, R., Shen, Y., et al. (2022). Coronatine enhances chilling tolerance of tomato plants by inducing chilling-related epigenetic adaptations and transcriptional reprogramming. Int J Mol Sci 23.

3. Liu Z, Jia Y, Ding Y, Shi Y, Zhang X, Li Z, Guo Y, Gong Z, Yang S* (2017) Plasma membrane CRPK1-mediated phosphorylation of 14-3-3 proteins induces their nuclear import to fine-tune CBF signaling during cold response. Molecular Cell 66: 117-128. (Highlighted with a Preview article in Mol Cell; Selected for F1000 Prime)