Erin McCrum, UT Houston Medical School, Summer Intern 2008

       

Sherille Bradley, Texas State University, Summer Intern 2009


Xiaofeng Fu, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2010


Gianmarco Raddi, Rice University, Summer Intern 2010


Charles Chen, Duke University, Summer intern 2010


Yesha Zheng, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2011

                       

Dustin Morado, Georgia Tech, Summer intern 2010, 2011


Sam Ruder, Rice University, Summer Intern 2012


Martin Chien, China Medical University, Taiwan, Summer intern 2012

Sang (Michael) Xie, Clements High School, Summer intern 2012


Hongyi Shi, Los Altos High School, Los Altos, CA, Summer intern 2012

                        

Brian A. Tong, Bellaire High School, Summer intern 2010, 2011, 2012


Alan Pan, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, Summer intern 2012, 2013


Xiaomin Li, Visiting Student, 2013​​​


​Jonas Actor, University of Chicago, Summer intern 2014


Qiang Chen, Visiting Student, 2014


Jiagang Tu, Postdoctoral fellow, 2012-2015


Xiaowei Zhao, Postdoctoral fellow, 2010-2015


​Wei-Ting Lin,  Fu Jen Catholic University, Summer intern 2015


Madeline Farley, Postdoctoral fellow, 2015-2016


Wendy Wang, Research Assistant, 2015-2016


Dustin Morado, Research Assistant, 2014-2017


Xiangan Liu, Research Assistant Professor 2015-2017


David Burton, University of Montana, Summer Intern 2017


Jeffery Yang, Emory University, Summer Intern 2017


​Bo Hu, Postdoctoral fellow 2010-2016; Assistant Professor 2016-2017


Tatsuro Nishikino, Nagoya University, Visiting Student 2018


Benjamin Crair, Guilford High School, Summer Intern 2018, 2019


Zhuan Qin, Postdoctoral fellow 2015-2018


Meijing Li, Tshinghua University, Visiting Student 2018


Wenwei Li, Postdoctoral fellow, 2017-2019


​Shiwei Zhu, Postdoctoral fellow, 2016-2019


Pei Wang, Institute of Biophysics (Beijing), Visiting Student, 2019


Katherine Haney Gibson, University of Georgia, Visiting Student, 2019


Cedric Hu, University of Rochester, Summer Intern, 2019; Research Assistant, 2021-2022


Liuqi Zhu, Nantong University, Visiting Student, 2019


Kevin Zhao, UCLA, Summer Student, 2019


Jun He, ShanghaiTech, Visiting Student, 2018-2019


Xia Li, Nantong University, China, Visiting Professor, 2017-2019


Xinrui Huang, Beijing University, Visiting Professor, 2019-2020


Ze Li, Fudan University, Visiting Professor, 2018-2020


​Qin Gong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Postdoctoral fellow, 2019-2020


Brittany Carrell, University of Vermont, Postdoctoral fellow, 2019-2021


Yunjie Chang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Postdoctoral fellow, 2017-2021


Meng Shao, Research Assistant, 2019-2021


Donghyun (Raphael) Park, Graduate Student, 2017-2022


Shuaiqi (Phil) Guo, Associate Research Scientist (2020-2023)


Liang Chen, Florida State University, Visiting Student (2022-2023)

Lab Members

Jack BoTTing

Research Assistant II (2023-Present)

UGA


Botting JM, Tachiyama S, Giboson KH, Liu J, Starai VJ, Hoover TR: FlgV forms a flagellar motor ring that is required for optimal motility of Helicobacter pylori. PLoS One 2023 18(11):e0287514.






ANA AFONSO

VISITING STUDENT (2023-Present)






SAMIRA HEYDAYI

Postdoctoral Fellow (2023-Present)






jun liu, ph.d.

Professor

Department of Microbial Pathogenesis

Microbial Sciences Institute

Yale School of Medicine


Ph.D. Physics, Institute of PhysicsChinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (1995-1998)

Postdoctorial Fellow, Florida State University, Florida, USA (1998-2005)

​Staff Scientist, National Cancer InstituteNational Institutes of Health, USA (2005-2007)

Assistant Professor & Associate Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, UTHealth (2007-2014)

Alumni 

Wangbiao (Seven) Guo

PostDoctoral Fellow (2021-Present)

Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China


Carroll BL, Nishikino T, Guo W, Zhu S, Kojima S, Homma M, Liu J: The flagellar motor of Vibrio alginolyticus undergoes major structural remodeling during rotational switching. Elife. 2020 Sep 7;9:e61446.

Kurniyati K, Chang Y, Guo W, Liu J, Malkowski MG, Li C. Anti-σ28 Factor FlgM Regulates Flagellin Gene Expression and Flagellar Polarity of Treponema denticola. J Bacteriol. 2023 Feb 22;205(2):e0046322​​

Jing Cheng

Postdoctoral Fellow (2024-Present)






Hang Zhao

Visiting Scholar (2024-Present)






Rajeev Kumar

Postdoctoral Fellow (2024-Present)






Electron Tomography at Yale University

Lab Gallery

Jian YuE

Postdoctoral Fellow (2023-Present)






Chunyan Wang, ph.d.

Associate Research Scientist (2021-Present)

Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-2021)

PH.D. Virology, Zhejiang University, China


Wang C, Tu J, Liu J, Molineux IJ:Structural Dynamics of Bacteriophage P22 Infection Initiation Revealed by Cryo-electron Tomography, Nature Microbiology, 2019.

​Gorman J, Wang C, Mason RD, Nazzari AF, Welles HC, Zhou T, Bess JW, Bylund T, Lee M, Tsybovsky Y, et al. Cryo-EM structures of prefusion SIV envelope trimer. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2022 29, 1080-1091.

Jennifer Aronson

Lab Coordinator (2020-Present)






​Updated on Jan. 5, 2024.

Shoichi Tachiyama

Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-Present)

PH.D. Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of Kansas


​Tachiyama S, Chan KL, Liu XL, Hathroubi S, Peterson B, Khan MF, Ottemann KM, Liu J, Roujeinikova A: The flagellar motor protein FliL forms a scaffold of circumferentially positioned rings required for stator activation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2022, 119 (4) e2118401119.

Liu X, Tachiyama S, Zhou X, Mathias RA, Bonny SQ, Khan MF, Xin V, Roujeinikova A, Liu J, and Ottemann KM. Bacterial flagella hijack type IV pili proteins to control motility. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023

Huaxin Yu

Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-Present)









The LIU LAB