Ping LIU

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Title: Professor

Department: Department of Pathophysiology

Email: pingl@hust.edu.cn

Clinical Focus:

Research Focus/Interests: 1. The neural circuits and synaptic mechanisms underlying behaviors 2. The molecular mechanisms and functions of neuron-intestine communications

Biography

11/2008-11/2014       	Postdoctoral Fellowship
Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut Medical School
11/2014-02/2019        	Research Associate
Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut Medical School
02/2019-9/2019	      Instructor
Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut Medical School
9/2019-present	      Adjunct faculty
Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut Medical School
9/2019-present	      Professor
Department of Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medicine, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Education

09/1999-06/2003   Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Bachelor Degree, major in Biotechnology
09/2003-06/2008   Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Ph.D., major in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Advisor: Prof. Qing K. Wang and Mugen Liu

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations

Publications

1.	Liu P, Chen B, Wang ZW. GABAergic motor neurons bias locomotor decision-making in C. elegans. Nat Commun. 2020. 11(1): p. 5076.
2.	Niu L, Li Y, Zong P, Liu P, Shui Y, Chen B, Wang ZW. Melatonin promotes sleep by activating the BK channel in C. elegans. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2020. 117(40): p. 25128-25137.
3.	Shui Y, Liu P, Zhan H, Chen B, Wang ZW. Molecular basis of junctional current rectification at an electrical synapse. Sci. Adv. 2020. 6(27): p. eabb3076.
4.	Niu LG, Liu P, Wang ZW, Chen B. Slo2 Potassium Channel Function Depends on RNA Editing-Regulated Expression of a SCYL1 Protein. Elife. 2020. 9.
5.	Liu P, Wang SJ, Wang ZW, Chen B. HRPU-2, a Homolog of Mammalian hnRNP U, Regulates Synaptic Transmission by Controlling the Expression of SLO-2 Potassium Channel in Caenorhabditis elegans. J Neurosci. 2018. 38(5): p. 1073-1084.
Highlighted article: “This Week in The Journal”
6.	Hawk JD, Calvo AC, Liu P, Almoril-Porras A, Aljobeh A, Torruella-Suárez ML, Ren I, Cook N, Greenwood J, Luo L, Wang ZW, Samuel ADT, Colón-Ramos DA. Integration of Plasticity Mechanisms within a Single Sensory Neuron of C. elegans Actuates a Memory. Neuron. 2018. 97(2): p. 356-367 e4.
7.	Liu P, Chen B, Mailler R, Wang ZW. Antidromic-rectifying gap junctions amplify chemical transmission at functionally mixed electrical-chemical synapses. Nat Commun. 2017 Mar 20;8:14818.
8.	Chen B, Liu P, Hujber EJ, Li Y, Jorgensen EM, Wang ZW. AIP limits neurotransmitter release by inhibiting calcium bursts from the ryanodine receptor. Nat Commun. 2017. 8(1): p. 1380.
9.	Niu LG, Liu P, Shui Y, Mailler R, Wang ZW, Chen B. BKIP-1, an auxiliary subunit critical to SLO-1 function, inhibits SLO-2 potassium channel in vivo. Sci Rep. 2017. 7(1): p. 17843.
10.	Liu P, Chen B, Wang ZW. SLO-2 potassium channel is an important regulator of neurotransmitter release in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nat Commun. 2014. 5: p. 5155.
11.	Liu P, Chen B, Wang ZW. Postsynaptic current bursts instruct action potential firing at a graded synapse. Nat Commun. 2013. 4: p. 1911.

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