Yang Liu

Dedicated professional skillful in microbiology, host-microbe interactions, molecular biology, experimental design, and data analysis. Reliable individual with excellent leadership, mentorship, and communication skills.

1.  Yang Liu, Zhexian Liu, George A. O’Toole, Cara H. Haney. Mechanisms of bacterial biofilm required for protection against rhizosphere pathogens. Manuscript in Preparation. Anticipated submission to ISME winter 2023.

2.  Yang Liu, Andrew J. Wilson, Jiatong Han, Alisa Hui, Lucy O’Sullivan, Tao Huan, Cara H. Haney. Amino Acid Availability Determines Plant Immune Homeostasis in the Rhizosphere Microbiome. mBio (2023). doi.org/10.1128/mbio.03424-22

3.  David Thoms, Melissa Y. Chen, Yang Liu, Zayda Morales Moreira, Youqing Luo, Siyu Song, Nicole R. Wang, Cara H. Haney. Innate Immunity Can Distinguish Beneficial from Pathogenic Rhizosphere Microbiota. bioRxiv preprint doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.07.523123. In Review, Nature Microbiology(2023).

4.  Siyu Song, Yang Liu, Nicole Wang, Cara H. Haney. Mechanisms in Plant–Microbiome Interactions: Lessons from Model Systems. Current Opinion in Plant Biology (2021).doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.2021.102003 (Cover Image)

5.  Yi Song, Andrew J. Wilson, Xue-Cheng Zhang, David Thoms, Reza Sohrabi, Siyu Song, Quentin Geissmann, Yang Liu, Lauren Walgen, Sheng Yang He, Cara H. Haney. FERONIA Restricts Pseudomonas in the Rhizosphere Microbiome via Regulation of Reactive Oxygen Species. Nature Plants (2021). dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41477-021-00914-0

6.  Polina Beskrovnaya, Ryan A. Melnyk, Zhexian Liu, Yang Liu, Melanie A. Higgins, Yi Song, Katherine S. Ryan, Cara H. Haney. Comparative Genomics Identified a Genetic Locus in Plant-Associated Pseudomonas spp. That Is Necessary for Induced Systemic Susceptibility. mBio (2020). doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00575-20

7.  Kishore Vishwanathan, Krysztof Zienkiewicz, Yang Liu, Dennis Janz, Ivo Feussner, Andrea Polle, Cara H. Haney. Ectomycorrhizal Fungi Induce Systemic Resistance Against Insects on a Nonmycorrhizal Plant in a CERK1-dependent Manner. New Phytologist (2020). doi.org/10.1111/nph.16715

8.  Ke Yu, Yang Liu, Ramon Tichelaar, Niharika Savant, Ellen Lagendijk, Sanne JL van Kuijk, Ioannis A. Stringlis, Anja JH van Dijken, Corne MJ Pieterse, Peter AHM Barkker, Cara H. Haney, Roeland L. Berendsen. Rhizosphere-Associated Pseudomonas Suppress Local Root Immune Responses by Gluconic Acid-Mediated Lowering of Environmental pH. Current Biology (2019). doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.09.015

• 2023 CSPB2023 George H. Duff travel award ($300)
• 2022 CSPB2022 President Award for the best poster presentation ($200)
• 2022 Novo Nordisk Foundation travel award
• 2022 UBC Graduate student travel award ($500)
• 2022 Robert Emmanuel & Mary Day Endowment travel award ($750)
• 2021-2023 PRoTECT Scholarship ($10,000/year)
• 2020-2023 President’s Excellence Initiative PhD award ($325~$1,080/year)
• 2017-2023 UBC tuition award ($6,800/year)
• 2017-2021 Chinese Scholarship Council ($1600~$2200/year)
• 2016 National Scholarship of China ($2000)
• 2014 Outstanding undergraduate thesis award
• 2012-2013 National undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship training program (team leader, $2000)
• 2011-2013 Department of Agronomy undergraduate award ($200~$400/year)

• 2023 IS-MPMI (poster, Rhode Island, USA)
• 2023 PRoTECT retreat (talk, Göttingen, Germany)
• 2022 ISME18 (talk and poster, Lausanne, Switzerland)
• 2022 Plant-microbe interactions (poster, Copenhagen, Denmark)
• 2022 ASPB-CSPB2022 (poster, Portland, USA)
• 2021 ICAR2021(poster, online)
• 2020 PRoTECT retreat (poster, Göttingen, Germany)
• 2019 PRoTECT retreat (talk, Summerland, CA)

Journal review activities

• 2022 Co-reviewer, Plant Physiology
• 2020 Co-reviewer, Plos Pathogen and New Phytologist
• 2021 Co-reviewer, MPMI and Nature Communications

Scientific outreach

• 2023 Department of Microbiology and Immunology Research day poster judge
• 2022 Volunteer at UBC farm science exhibition
• 2018 Volunteer at the 6th Pan American plant membrane biology workshop
• 2016 Part-time coordinator at Sino-US Food Quality and Safety Research Center in the Northwest A&F University