Qing Liu

Qing Liu

  • Subject： Eco-genomics
  • Tel/Fax: +86-10-64807217  / 
  • Email： liuqing@ioz.ac.cn
  • Address： Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China
  • More： 生态基因组学及适应性研究组      

Resume

Qing Liu, Ph.D., Associate Professor. She received her B.S. from Hebei University in 2014 and her M.S. from the Institute of Zoology, CAS, in 2017. In 2022, she obtained dual Ph.D. degrees: one in Bioinformatics from the University of Copenhagen and another in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. From 2022 to 2026, she carried out postdoctoral research at the Beijing Institute of Life Sciences, CAS. Since January 2026, she has served as an Associate Professor at the Institute of Zoology, CAS.

Dr. Liu has published 15 SCI-indexed papers, including six as first or co-first author in journals such as Nature Genetics, Microbiome, BMC Biology, eLife, GigaScience, and Insect Science. She serves as a project leader for the Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and as a sub-project leader in the Strategic Priority Research Program of CAS. She has been selected for the National Postdoctoral Program for Overseas Talents and the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), and has also received support from the Bingzhi Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.

Research Interests

Major Interest: Epigenetics of Harmful Behaviors in Insects

To elucidate the epigenetic regulation underlying harmful behaviors in insects and their environmental adaptation, focusing on the molecular mechanisms that govern behavioral formation and plastic responses to environmental signals.

Selected Publications

  1. Liu Q①, Jiang F①, Li R①, Liu S①, Fang W①, Li X, Hu T, Feng L, Zhang J, Liu Z, He J, Guo W, Wang X, Sun Z, Li J, Gao Y, Yi J, Li Q, Wang X, Wei L, Kang L*. Chromatin dynamics of large-sized genome provides insights into polyphenism and X0 dosage compensation of locusts. Nature Genetics. 2025, 57(9):2264–2275.
  2. Liu Q①, Cui F①, Liu X, Fu Y, Fang W, Kang X, Lu H, Li S, Liu B, Guo W, Xia Q*, Kang L*, Jiang F*. Association of virome dynamics with mosquito species and environmental factors. Microbiome. 2023, 11(1):101.
  3. Liu Q①, Jiang F①, Zhang J, Li X, Kang L*. Transcription initiation of distant core promoters in a large-sized genome of an insect. BMC Biology. 2021, 19:62.
  4. Yang M①, Wang Y①, Liu Q①, Liu Z, Jiang F, Wang H, Guo X, Zhang J*, Kang L*. A β-carotene-binding protein carrying a red pigment regulates body-color transition between green and black in locusts. eLife. 2019, 8:e41362.
  5. Jiang F①, Liu Q①, Liu X, Wang XH, Kang L*. Genomic data reveal high conservation but divergent evolutionary pattern of Polycomb/Trithorax group genes in arthropods. Insect Science. 2019, 26(1): 20-34.
  6. Jiang F①, Liu Q①, Wang Y, Zhang J, Wang H, Song T, Yang M, Wang X*, Kang L*. Comparative genomic analysis of SET domain family reveals the origin, expansion, and putative function of the arthropod-specific SmydA genes as histone modifiers in insects. Gigascience. 2017, 6(6):1-16.
  7. Li X①, Jiang F①, Liu Q, Zhang Z, Fang W, Wang Y, Liu H, Kang L*. GAF-dependent chromatin plasticity determines promoter usage to mediate locust gregarious behavior. EMBO Journal. 2025, 44(10):2928–2948.
  8. Wang H①, Jiang F①, Liu X①, Liu Q, Fu Y, Li R, Hou L, Zhang J, He J, Kang L*. Piwi/piRNAs control food intake by promoting neuropeptide F expression in locusts. EMBO Reports. 2022, 23(3):e50851.
  9. Jiang F①, Zhang J①, Liu Q, Liu X, Wang H, He J, Kang L*. Long-read direct RNA sequencing by 5'-Cap capturing reveals the impact of Piwi on the widespread exonization of transposable elements in locusts. RNA Biology. 2019, 16(7): 950-959.
  10. Guo S①, Jiang F①, Yang P, Liu Q, Wang X, Kang L*. Characteristics and expression patterns of histone-modifying enzyme systems in the migratory locust. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 2016, 76:18-28.
  11. Jiang F, Wang H, Liu Q. Regulatory mechanisms of non-coding RNAs in ecological adaptation, in Ecological Genomics, edited by Kang L., Science Press, 2019. (In Chinese).