Sanzhen Liu

Dr. Sanzhen Liu holds BS and MS degrees from Xiamen University and completed his PhD and postdoctoral research at Iowa State University. Currently, he serves as a Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology at Kansas State University in the US. His research primarily focuses on genetics, genomics, and computational approaches applied to maize, wheat, and their associated pathogens. Dr. Liu has developed valuable tools such as MuClone and BSR-seq, facilitating gene mapping and cloning. Additionally, his research group has contributed various computational pipelines, including KAD, CGRD, and Homotools, aiming at improving genome assembly evaluation and comparative genomics.