Hanqing Liu

Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University
Postdoctoral Fellow, Greenberg Lab, Harvard Medical School

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Hi, I am Hanqing Liu (刘翰青).

I am currently a Harvard Junior Fellow working with the Greenberg lab at Harvard Medical School.

Before joining Harvard, I was a postdoctoral fellow in the Ecker lab at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, where I got my PhD in Biology from UCSD under the guidance of Dr. Joseph Ecker. My doctoral research focuses on developing single-cell multi-omic technologies and analytical frameworks to investigate and decipher the epigenomic diversity of mammalian brains across spatial and temporal dimensions.

I got my BSc in Biotechnology from the Zhejiang University in China, graduating with honors from the Chu Kochen Honors College. I also had one year clinical training at the Zhejiang University School of Medicine, before I decided to change my career path to basic research.

I grow up in Hangzhou, the capital city of Zhejiang Province in China. I enjoy taking photos and going to classical music concerts in my spare time.

Education

  • 2022
    Doctor of Philosophy, Biology
    University of California, San Diego, California, United States
    • PhD advisor, Prof. Joseph R. Ecker
    • Dissertation Title, "DNA methylation landscape of the mouse and human brain at single-cell resolution"
  • 2016
    Bachelor of Science, Biotechnology
    Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China

Experience

  • 2023 -
    Junior Fellow
    Society of Fellows, Harvard University
  • 2023 -
    Postdoc Fellow, Michael Greenberg Lab
    Harvard Medical School
  • 2022 - 2023
    Postdoc Fellow, Joseph Ecker Lab
    Salk Institute for Biological Studies
  • 2017 - 2022
    Graduate Student, Joseph Ecker Lab
    Salk Institute for Biological Studies & University of California, San Diego

Honors and Awards

  • 2023
    Junior Fellowship
    Society of Fellows, Harvard University
  • 2022
    Pioneer Fund Postdoctoral Scholar Award
    Salk Institute For Biological Studies
  • 2021
    Founding Faculty Award
    Division of Biological Science, UCSD
  • 2020
    David V. Goeddel Endowed Graduate Fellowship
    Division of Biological Science, UCSD

Selected Publications

  1. Nature Cover 14 Dec 2023.png
    Single-cell DNA methylome and 3D multi-omic atlas of the adult mouse brain
    Hanqing Liu*, Qiurui Zeng*, Jingtian Zhou, Anna Bartlett, Bang-An Wang, Peter Berube, Wei Tian, Mia Kenworthy, Jordan Altshul, Joseph R Nery, Huaming Chen, Rosa G Castanon, Songpeng Zu, Yang Eric Li, Jacinta Lucero, Julia K Osteen, Antonio Pinto-Duarte, Jasper Lee, Jon Rink, Silvia Cho, Nora Emerson, Michael Nunn, Carolyn O’Connor, Zhanghao Wu, Ion Stoica, Zizhen Yao, Kimberly A Smith, Bosiljka Tasic, Chongyuan Luo, Jesse R Dixon, Hongkui Zeng, Bing Ren, M Margarita Behrens, and Joseph R Ecker
    Nature, Dec 2023
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    Single nucleus multi-omics identifies human cortical cell regulatory genome diversity
    Chongyuan Luo*, Hanqing Liu*, Fangming Xie*, Ethan J Armand, Kimberly Siletti, Trygve E Bakken, Rongxin Fang, Wayne I Doyle, Tim Stuart, Rebecca D Hodge, Lijuan Hu, Bang-An Wang, Zhuzhu Zhang, Sebastian Preissl, Dong-Sung Lee, Jingtian Zhou, Sheng-Yong Niu, Rosa Castanon, Anna Bartlett, Angeline Rivkin, Xinxin Wang, Jacinta Lucero, Joseph R Nery, David A Davis, Deborah C Mash, Rahul Satija, Jesse R Dixon, Sten Linnarsson, Ed Lein, M Margarita Behrens, Bing Ren, Eran A Mukamel, and Joseph R Ecker
    Cell Genomics, Mar 2022
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    DNA methylation atlas of the mouse brain at single-cell resolution
    Hanqing Liu*, Jingtian Zhou*, Wei Tian, Chongyuan Luo, Anna Bartlett, Andrew Aldridge, Jacinta Lucero, Julia K Osteen, Joseph R Nery, Huaming Chen, Angeline Rivkin, Rosa G Castanon, Ben Clock, Yang Eric Li, Xiaomeng Hou, Olivier B Poirion, Sebastian Preissl, Antonio Pinto-Duarte, Carolyn O’Connor, Lara Boggeman, Conor Fitzpatrick, Michael Nunn, Eran A Mukamel, Zhuzhu Zhang, Edward M Callaway, Bing Ren, Jesse R Dixon, M Margarita Behrens, and Joseph R Ecker
    Nature, Oct 2021
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    A transcriptomic and epigenomic cell atlas of the mouse primary motor cortex
    Zizhen Yao*, Hanqing Liu*, Fangming Xie*, Stephan Fischer*, Ricky S Adkins, Andrew I Aldridge, Seth A Ament, Anna Bartlett, M Margarita Behrens, Koen Berge, Darren Bertagnolli, Hector Roux Bézieux, Tommaso Biancalani, A Sina Booeshaghi, Héctor Corrada Bravo, Tamara Casper, Carlo Colantuoni, Jonathan Crabtree, Heather Creasy, Kirsten Crichton, Megan Crow, Nick Dee, Elizabeth L Dougherty, Wayne I Doyle, Sandrine Dudoit, Rongxin Fang, Victor Felix, Olivia Fong, Michelle Giglio, Jeff Goldy, Mike Hawrylycz, Brian R Herb, Ronna Hertzano, Xiaomeng Hou, Qiwen Hu, Jayaram Kancherla, Matthew Kroll, Kanan Lathia, Yang Eric Li, Jacinta D Lucero, and 43 more authors
    Nature, Oct 2021