Bo Liu
Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group
Beckman Institute, Room 3109
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
405 N. Mathews Ave
Urbana, IL 61801
Home Department: Biophysics and Computational Biology
Office Phone: (217)244-5042
Email Address: boliu@ks.uiuc.edu
Bo Liu graduated from his PhD in spring semester 2016. Dr. Bo Liu's current position: Robotics Engineer, Lab Manager at Intelligent Robotics Lab
Education
- Ph.D. in Biophysics and Computational Biology; Computational Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2016
- M.S. in Computational Physical Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Spring 2009
- B.S. in Geosciences (Computational), Nanjing University, Spring 2005
Research
- Computer Simulation and Modeling
- Supercomputing of Biological Machinery
- Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization
- Machine Learning-Assisted Analysis
- Deep Learning
- Machine Vision
- Computing Systems, Intelligent Autonomous Systems
Publications
- Carbon Nanotube Based Artificial Water Channel Protein: Membrane Perturbation and Water Transportation.
- Visualization of energy conversion processes in a light harvesting organelle at atomic detail.
- Macrolide antibiotics allosterically predispose the ribosome for translation arrest.
- Molecular dynamics simulations of large macromolecular complexes
- The ribosome can discriminate the chirality of amino acids within its peptidyl-transferase center.
- The nascent polypeptide assists the ribosome in discriminating between chemically distinct molecules.
- Atomic detail visualization of photosynthetic membranes with GPU-accelerated ray tracing
Bo Liu, Xiaoyi Li, Baolei Li, Bingqian Xu, and Yuliang Zhao. Nano Letters, 9(4):1386-1394, 2009.(Highlighted by Nature China)
Melih Sener, John E. Stone, Angela Barragan, Abhishek Singharoy, Ivan Teo, Kirby L. Vandivort, Barry Isralewitz, Bo Liu, Boon Chong Goh, James C. Phillips, Lena F. Kourkoutis, C. Neil Hunter, and Klaus Schulten. Proceedings of the International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC '14. IEEE Press, 2014.
Shanmugapriya Sothiselvam, Bo Liu, Wei Han, Dorota Klepacki, Gemma C. Atkinson, Age Brauer, Maido Remm, Tanel Tenson, Klaus Schulten, Nora Vázquez-Laslop, and Alexander S. Mankin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111:9804-9809, 2014.
Juan R. Perilla, Boon Chong Goh, C. Keith Cassidy, Bo Liu, Rafael C. Bernardi, Till Rudack, Hang Yu, Zhe Wu, and Klaus Schulten. Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 31:64-74, 2015.
Michael T. Englander, Joshua L. Avins, Rachel C. Fleisher, Bo Liu, Philip R. Effraim, Jiangning Wang, Klaus Schulten, Thomas S. Leyh, Ruben L. Gonzalez Jr., and Virginia W. Cornish.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112:6038-6043, 2015. (A F1000Prime paper!)
Pulkit Gupta, Bo Liu, Dorota Klepacki, Vrinda Gupta, Klaus Schulten, Alexander S. Mankin, and Nora Vazquez-Laslop. Nature Chemical Biology, 12, 153-158, 2016.
John E. Stone, Melih Sener, Kirby L. Vandivort, Angela Barragan, Abhishek Singharoy, Ivan Teo, Joao V. Ribeiro, Barry Isralewitz, Bo Liu, Boon Chong Goh, James C. Phillips, Craig MacGregor-Chatwin, Matthew P. Johnson, Lena F. Kourkoutis, C. Neil Hunter, and Klaus Schulten. Parallel Computing,, in-press, 2016.
