Liu Lab, Fifield Hall 1206-1208
​                                                We are located in the beautiful Gainesville campus at the University of Florida. 
​                                      Picture taken at Lake Alice which is about five minutes walking distance from the lab.  

TIE LIU
Assistant Professor
​Office: 352-846-2638, Email: tieliu@ufl.edu
Twitter: ltie52

​Tie Liu did his graduate study in both Peking University and Yale University with Dr. Timothy Nelson and Dr. Xing-Wang Deng concentrated on the entire genome of rice cell-type specific transcriptional regulation using Laser Capture Microdissection (LCM). He started his postdoctoral research on stomata development in the lab of Dr. Dominique Bergmann at Stanford University. While there, he conceived comparative genetic and cell imaging approaches to discover stomatal genes functions 
in rice and maize. He continued his research in the lab of Dr. Kathryn Barton at Stanford to study the transcriptional regulatory networks on plant meristem and leaf development.
His lab is focused on understanding the mechanisms that plants integrate developmental pathways and abiotic stress pathways in Arabidopsis and crop plants. His lab is also characterizing the genes that are involved in postharvest senescence in broccoli and tuber dormancy in potato using quantitative genetic, genomics, phenomics, and genome-editing approaches.

Yogesh Ahlawat
Biological Scientist II

​Yogesh is a plant molecular biologist with wide research experience in molecular biology and plant tissue culture in different model plants. He graduated from Michigan Technological University and his PhD research was focused on plant cell wall modification for enhancing saccharification in poplar. 
His current project is studying the pathways that regulate senescence in Arabidopsis and Brassica plants. 
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Mingxi Zhou
Undergraduate student

She is characterizing the functional properties of several downstream targets of STM by analyzing the gain-of-function and loss-of-function mutants in Arabidopsis. She is also developing methods to study  functions of their homologues in strawberry. 

Yang Yue
Undergraduate student

Yang is interested in potato dormancy and working on analyzing the endodormancy and ecodormancy of several Florida potato varieties. 

Zilfinia Ames

Zilfinia is interested in studying how environmental changes affect glucoraphanin accumulation in broccoli.  
Interested in Joining?

We are always looking for highly motivated students and postdocs to form a research group. We are currently recruiting for research scientist, graduate student, and postdoc to study postharvest senescence in broccoli and tuber sprouting in potato. Please email your CV to tieliu@ufl.edu.