Bo Liang, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of BiochemistryÂ
Co-Scientific Director, Robert P. Apkarian Integrated Electron Microscopy CoreÂ
Dr. Bo Liang obtained his B.S. in Biology and B.E. in Computer Science from the University of Science and Technology of China. Dr. Liang received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics (Mentor: Dr. Hong Li) at Florida State University. Dr. Liang completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology (BCMP) and Microbiology and Immunobiology (MBIB) (Mentors: Drs. Stephen Harrison and Sean Whelan) at Harvard Medical School. Together, Dr. Liang received outstanding training in structural biology, with specific expertise in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) and x-ray crystallography and RNA biology and virology.
Dr. Liang’s primary scholarly focus is on the structures and mechanisms of macromolecules with an emphasis on the RNA synthesis machinery of non-segmented negative-sense (NNS) RNA viruses and neurobiological disease-related proteins using integrated approaches of cryo-EM and crystallography. His articles have been published in several leading journals, including Cell, Molecular Cell, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology (NSMB), and Nature Communications. Dr. Liang is on the editorial board of the Journal of Molecular Cell Biology and the Journal of Virology and has been invited to review many reputable peer-review scientific journals. Dr. Liang’s research is supported by NIH, MP3, ADRC, ALA, CDC, and URC, and he participates in multiple federal and regional grant reviews.
y NIH, MP3, ADRC, and URC, and he participates in multiple federal and regional grant reviews.