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Wei Liu, Ph.D.

Dr. Wei Liu

Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics

 

Professional Interests

  • Molecular mechanisms of retinal development
  • Mouse genetics
  • Stem cell-based modeling and repair of retinal diseases

 

NIH-funded positions are available for highly self-motivated postdoctoral research fellow/graduate student.

 

Selected Publications

  1. Liu W, LagutinO, SwindellE, JamrichM and OliverG. Neuroretina specification in mouse embryos requires Six3-mediated suppression of Wnt8b in the anterior neural plate. J of Clin Invest,120: 3568-77, 2010.
  2. Liu W. Focus on Molecules: Wnt8b: A suppressor of early eye and retinal progenitor formation. Exp Eye Res 2011 Jan 8. [Epub ahead of print].
  3. Liu W, Lagutin OV, Mende M, Streit A and Oliver G. Six3 activation of Pax6 expression is essential for mammalian lens induction and specification. EMBO J 25: 5383-5395, 2006.
  4. Geng X, Speirs C, Lagutin O, Inbal A, Liu W, Solnica-Krezel L, Jeong Y, Epstein DJ, Oliver G. Haploinsufficiency of Six3 fails to activate Sonic hedgehog expression in the ventral forebrain and causes holoprosencephaly. Dev Cell15: 236-247, 2008.
  5. Geng X, Lavado A, Lagutin OV, Liu W, Oliver, G. Expression of Six3 Opposite Strand (Six3OS) during mouse embryonic development. Gene Expression Patterns7: 252-257, 2006.
 

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Contact

Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus
1300 Morris Park Avenue
Ullmann Building, Room 117
Bronx, NY 10461

Tel: 718.839.7926
wei.liu@einstein.yu.edu

 
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