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​, Ph.D. 
Assistant Professor
​Office: Fifield Hall 1213, Phone: 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 focuses on understanding the mechanisms that plants integrate developmental pathways and abiotic stress pathways in model and horticultural plants. His lab is also characterizing the genes and gene regulatory networks that are involved in postharvest senescence and deterioration using quantitative genetic, genomics, phenomics, and genome-editing approaches.

Chiwah Tseung, Ph.D. 
Biological Scientist II. 

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 Jesus Preciado
 PMCB PhD graduate student

Jesus is studying the fuction of NAC transcription factors ​

​Ellen Garcia, PhD student
McKnight Fellow
Passion fruit development

Kaitlyn Vonracek, PhD student in Plant Breeding program

Strawberry runnnerless 
Kathryn Chase, Master student
She is characterizing the SAGs genes in lettuce. ​
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Utsab Ghimire, Master student 

Postharvest senescence

Alana Brinley
Master student

Development of abscission zone
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Kiley Epperson
OPS,
​Function of small peptide in plant development
Olivia Zimmer
OPS

Grape berry ripening and postharvest quality

Stephanie Miller
ALP undergraduate student

Qiaowen Chen
ALP undergraduate student

Hailey Phan
​ALP undergraduate student
Merce Satana
​Lab technician
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. Please email your CV to tieliu@ufl.edu. 


OUR FORMER LAB MEMBERS (Current position)
Jesus Preciado (Graduated in 2022)
​Yogesh Alawat (Bioscientist II, faculty, India)
Zilfinia Rubio-Ames (Faculty in UGA, USA)
Larissa Laforest (Ph.D.student, Dr. Swathi Lab)
Dingpeng, Zhang 
Tianxiao Yang (Ph.D. student, Dr. Mark Settle Lab)
Emily Reed (Ph.D. student, Dr. Wilfred Vermerris Lab)

FORMER UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHERS (Current position)
Kinfe Bankole
Kayana Haeusser 
Andres Gonzales (PhD. student, Emory University)
Kimberly Walters
​Emily Merrill 
Marina Bunn
Mimi Ngyen
Caleb Wang
Tyson Thorpe
Jaelles Coradin
Roxana Cabrera
Yue Yang (Master student, John Inners Center, UK)
Lola Myer 
Brett Treadway
Catherine Monore
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