Welcome to Yansheng Liu Lab
Group picture 02/2023
Group picture 07/2022
Dr. Yansheng Liu
Lab Head
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacology
Yale University School of Medicine
Institute Address:
Cancer Biology Institute
ABC 371C, 840 West Campus Drive,
PO Box 27400
West Haven, CT 06516
Tel: +1 (203)737-3853
Email: yansheng.liu@yale.edu
Dr. Liu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at Yale University School of Medicine. He is also a group leader in quantitative proteomics at the Yale Cancer Biology Institute and Yale Cancer Center. Dr. Liu received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011. He then carried out his post-doctoral training at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, under the mentorship of Ruedi Aebersold.
In December 2017, Yansheng joined the faculty at Yale and began his independent career. His research program is focused on analyzing protein turnover and post-translational modifications for understanding cancer aneuploidy, cellular signaling transduction, and biodiversity. The Liu Lab also aims to contribute to the development of multiplexed data-independent acquisition mass spectrometry (DIA-MS) approaches. Dr. Liu has received the 2021 ASMS Research Award, HUPO ECR Award (winner), and the 2023 US HUPO Robert J. Cotter Award.
Dr. Wenxue Li
Postdoctoral researcher
Wenxue Li completed his Ph.D. in 2018 February in University of Fribourg School of Medicine, Switzerland. His Ph.D. research focused on the mass spectrometry based analysis of neurodegenerative disease, measurements of biochemical molecules including the neuropeptides, and proteomics on extracellular vesicles associated proteins in the central nervous system.
Wenxue started as a postdoc in Dr. Yansheng Liu lab in Yale Cancer Biology Institute from March 2018. He is working on the data independent acquisition (DIA) based proteomics. His research focuses on proteome abundance and turnover profiling at translational and post-translational levels in cancer cells and disease processes.
Wenxue already has a few first author publications in Liu Lab.
Contact:
Address: Cancer Biology Institute, School of Medicine,
840 West Campus Drive, West Haven, Connecticut 06516
E-mail: wenxue.li@yale.edu
Dr. Yi Di
Postdoctoral researcher
Yi Di received his Doctor’s degree in Chemical Biology from Fudan University China in 2019. His Ph.D. research focused on the development of multiplex Data independent acquisition (DIA) methods. Also, his research included investigation of protein modification, such as glycosylation and specifically for sialylation. Dr. Yi has two first-author papers published in Analytical Chemistry during his Ph.D.
Yi joined Dr. Liu's lab in the Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology Institute at Yale University as a Postdoctoral in July 2019. His research focuses on protein interactions and quantification of protein modifications.
Contact:
Address: Cancer Biology Institute, School of Medicine,
840 West Campus Drive, West Haven, Connecticut 06516
E-mail: yi.di@yale.edu
Dr. Barbora Salovska
Postdoctoral researcher
Barbora Salovska completed her Ph.D. at the Faculty of Medicine of the Charles University in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, in 2017. Her Ph.D. research was mainly focused on phosphoproteomic analysis of signalling pathways triggered by ionizing radiation-induced DNA damage. As a post-doctoral researcher in the laboratory of Dr. Jiri Bartek at the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the ASCR, v. v. i. in Prague, Czech Republic, she investigated the role of oxidative stress in ionizing radiation-induced cellular senescence by redox proteomics.
Following a six-month internship at YCBI in 2018-2019, Barbora joined Dr. Liu's lab as a postdoctoral associate in January 2021. Her research focuses on bioinformatic analysis and pipeline establishment of DIA proteomics.
Contact:
Address: Cancer Biology Institute, School of Medicine,
840 West Campus Drive, West Haven, Connecticut 06516
E-mail: barbora.salovska@yale.edu
Dr. Zhenyi Hu
Postdoctoral researcher
Zhenyi Hu graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2018 with PhD in chemical biology focusing on innate immune system modulators. Zhenyi Hu then continued his study as a postdoc in Prof. Crews’ group in Yale university, working on development of PhosTACs and bifunctional molecules.
In November 2022, Dr. Hu joined Dr. Liu’s lab as a postdoc, continue working on investigation of protein regulations induced by PhosTACs with proteomic methods.
Contact:
Address: Cancer Biology Institute, School of Medicine,
840 West Campus Drive, West Haven, Connecticut 06516
E-mail: zhenyi.hu@yale.edu