Epernicus: Shixin Liu, B.Sc.

Shixin Liu, B.Sc.

(Ph.D. in progress)

Position:
Graduate Student - Ph.D.

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
Advisor:
Xiaowei Zhuang
Degrees:

Ph.D. (in progress), Chemistry, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)

B.Sc., Biology, University of Science and Technology of China (Hefei, China)
Past Advisors:

Mian Wu (as Undergraduate Student)
Research:
Single molecule biophysics

Communities:

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Slide into action: dynamic shuttling of HIV reverse transcriptase on nucleic acid substrates.
Liu S, Abbondanzieri EA, Rausch JW, Le Grice SF, Zhuang X

Science (New York, N.Y.). 2008 Nov 14;322(5904):1092-7
Dissecting the multistep reaction pathway of an RNA enzyme by single-molecule kinetic "fingerprinting".
Liu S, Bokinsky G, Walter NG, Zhuang X

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2007 Jul 31;104(31):12634-9
Two distinct binding modes of a protein cofactor with its target RNA.
Bokinsky G, Nivón LG, Liu S, Chai G, Hong M, Weeks KM, Zhuang X

Journal of molecular biology. 2006 Aug 25;361(4):771-84
A single amino acid change (Asp 53 --> Ala53) converts Survivin from anti-apoptotic to pro-apoptotic.
Song Z, Liu S, He H, Hoti N, Wang Y, Feng S, Wu M

Molecular biology of the cell. 2004 Mar;15(3):1287-96

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