Colleges & Faculties

I. Personal information

Han Liu, Ph.D., Lecturer, Member of the Communist Party of China. Born in Tianmen, Hubei Province.Graduated from the College of Agriculture, China Agricultural University in 2016 with a Ph.D. in Agriculture.Postdoctoral research at the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2019 to 2022.Worked at the College of Plant Science and Technology, Beijing University of Agriculture since August 2022.

II. Research interests

Silage maize breeding, molecular mechanism of heterosis.

III. Major Achievements

First implemented the ChIA-PET three-dimensional genomics method in plants, revealing long-range chromatin interactions mediated by H3K4me3 and H3K27ac in the maize genome.

Developed genotyping methods for gene exon region enrichment widely applicable to different plant species.

Representative papers

1. Conservation and variability of long-range interactions in structurally diverse maize genomes, First Author.

2. Ge Yan, Xuxu Ma*, Wei Huang, Chunyu Wang, Yingjia Han, Shufang Wang, Han Liu*, Mei Zhang*.Decoding the complexity of coding and non-coding RNAs across maize anther development at the isoform level.Journal of Genetics and Genomics,2025.

3. Kong Q*, Jiang Y*, Sun M, Wang Y, Zhang L, Zeng X, Wang Z, Wang Z, Liu Y, Gan Y, Liu H, Gao X, Yang X, Song X#, Liu Hongjun#, Shi J#. Biparental graph strategy to represent and analyze hybrid plant genomes. Plant Physiology, 2024, 196(2):1284-1297.https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiae375.

4. Gen Xu, Jing Lyu, Qing Li, Han Liu, Dafang Wang, Mei Zhang, Nathan M. Springer, Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra & Jinliang Yang*. Evolutionary and functional genomics of DNA methylation in maize domestication and improvement. Nat Commun 11, 5539 (2020).

5. En Li#, Han Liu#, Liangliang Huang, Xiangbo Zhang, Xiaomei Dong, Weibin Song, Haiming Zhao & Jinsheng Lai*. Long-range interactions between proximal and distal regulatory regions in maize. Nat Commun 10, 2633 (2019).

6. Baobao Wang#, Han Liu#, Zhipeng Liu#, Xiaomei Dong, Jinjie Guo, Wei Li, Jing Chen, Chi Gao, Yanbin Zhu, Xinmei Zheng, Zongliang Chen, Jian Chen, Weibin Song, Andrew Hauck & Jinsheng Lai*. Identification of minor effect QTLs for plant architecture related traits using super high density genotyping and large recombinant inbred population in maize (Zea mays). BMC Plant Biol 18, 17 (2018).

IV.Contact information

Postal address: College of Plant Science and Technology, Beijing University of Agriculture, No. 7, Beinong Road, Huilongguan, Changping, Beijing, 102206

Email: hliu@bua.edu.cn