Liu,Xiuli

Brief Bio

2002              Medical Doctor (M.D.)      

                       Clinical Medicine, TongjiMedical University, Wuhan, China

2005/2009    Master of Engineering (M.E.)/Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

     Biomedical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China

2009-2011    Postdoctoral Fellow

     The Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan, China

2010.2-8        Visiting scholar

                                        Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy,

                                        University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

2011-              Lecture

      The Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan, China

Research Areas

During doctoral and postdocor career, Xiuli LIU has taken advantage of two-photon imaging to look at some interesting questions, such as neuronal calcium signals, dendritic spines, dynamics of olfactory-bulb neuronal circuits and neural activities stimulatde by femtosecond laser. These works has been published on Applied Physics Letters and Joural of Biomedical optics. Recently, she has continued to focus on struture and functional imaging of whole-brain neural networks combined with fluorescence dyes and virus-fluorescence protein labeling techniques.

Publications

1.    Liu X., Quan, T., Zeng, S., Lv, X. Identification of the direction of the neural network activation with a cellular resolution by fast two-photon imaging, Journal of Biomedical optics, 2011, 16(08), 080506.

2.    Quan,T., Liu, X.*, Lv, X., Chen, R. W., Zeng, S. Method to reconstruct neuronal action potential train from two-photon calcium imaging, Journal of Biomedical optics, 2010,15(6), 066002. (Corresponding author)

3.    Liu, X., Lv, X., Zeng, S., Zhou, W., Luo Q. Noncontact and nondestructive identification of neural circuits with a femtosecond laser. Applied Physics Letters 94: 06113, 2009.

4.    Liu, X., Zhou, W., Zeng S. Recent progress in controlling neural activities with light. Progress in Biochemistry and Biophysics (Chinese), 2009, 36(12), 1509-1515.

5.    Liu, X., Gong, H., Li, X., Zhou, W. Monitoring calcium concentration in neurons with cameleon. Journal Bioscience and Bioengineering 105: 106-109, 2008.

6.    Liu, X., Quan, T. and Zhou, W. Optoelectronic monitoring of neural activity. Proceedings of SPIE 7280: 67-71, 2008.