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Group members


Group Leader:

Professor Luning Liu, Chair of Microbial Bioenergetics and Bioengineering


Prof. Luning Liu received his PhD in Microbiology in 2008 at Shandong University, China. He conducted a joint PhD project at Leiden University, Netherlands (2005-2008). After PhD, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Institute Curie, Paris (2008-2010), and obtained a Marie Curie fellowship to work as a research fellow at Queen Mary University of London (2010-2012). He became a Principal Investigator at University of Liverpool in December 2012 and a Royal Society University Research Fellow during 2013-2022. In 2018, he was appointed as a Chair Professor in Microbial Bioenergetics and Bioengineering.. The research in his group focuses on the molecular basis of the self-assembly, organisation, biogenesis and dynamics of biological membranes and protein supramolecular assemblies.

Expertise: Biochemistry, Synthetic Biology, Microbiology, Biophysics, Microscopy, Structural Biology

E: Luning.Liu("at")liverpool.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)151 795 4426




Postdoc researchers:


Dr Taiyu Chen
2
Dr Yaqi Sun

Dr Mengru Yang

Dr Oluwatobi Adegbite




PhD students:


Laura Bracun

Monsour Al Hazeem

Yu Chen

Bern Christianson

Xingwu Ge

Ping Chang

 


Jing Yang

Yingyue Zhang

 





Honorary researcher:



Technicians:

Fang
Dr Fang Huang


Greg Dykes



Master students:


Project students:


Charlie Watkin

Vincent Chriscoli

Amy Prescott

Yueyang Tang

Kee Ly

 

 

 


Former members:


Dr Tuomas Huokko

Dr Longsheng Zhao

Dr Tianpei Li

Dr Leanne Miller

Dr Jiafeng Huang

 

Jorge
Dr Jorge Rodriguez-Ramos
1
Dr Selene Casella

Dr Yi Fang

Dr Matthew Faulkner

Prof Na Sui

 


Dr Lanjiao Liu
5
Dr Zimeng Zhang

Dr Qiuyao Jiang

Sam Weetman

Shaura McCallion

 


Ayushi

Heidy Puusepp

Caleb Gunn

Xuechen Yang

Yanjun Chen

 


Yixuan Peng

Sean Gray

Kye Bullimore

John Christie

 


Ziyu Zhao

William Morris

Yuyang Yan

Madi Thorne

Andrew Clark

 


Junting Han

Liza Klebe

Hanan Ali Alatawi

Chengzhi An

Patty Chen

 


Yizhou Wang

Yandi Zheng

Jonathan Simpson

Kate Potter

Sadia Noreen

 


Cristien Natal

Ryan Lin

Nicola Deeley

Sarah Zouggari
LuĂ­za Pereira de Oliveira

 


Natasha Petterson

Kristian Williams

Xiaolun Ma
Joshua Hayton

Edward Cairns