Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology

Yang Liu

Professor

Label-free quantitative phase imaging, super-resolution fluorescence microscopy, and multiscale spatial omics to study cancer initiation and drug resistance

Research Interests

Research Description

The laboratory of Dr. Yang Liu focuses on developing multiscale optical microscopy techniques, spanning from nanoscale to mesoscale, to advance precision medicine. We work on improving the imaging speed, throughput and precision of label-free quantitative phase imaging (QPI) and single-molecule localization-based super-resolution microscopy, via new instrumentation and computational imaging. We couple label-free high-content imaging of morpho-dynamics with highly multiplexed fluorescence and super-resolution imaging to study a broad range of biophysical properties of chromatin organization, nuclear lamina, and nuclear pore complex in normal and pathological states and understand how cancer initiates and how cancer cells develop resistance as a response to therapeutic agents.

Education

Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2006
M.S., Chemistry, University of Chicago, 2001