Education
1999/09-2004/12 Microbiology, Ph.D., Wuhan University
1995/09-1999/07 Virology, Bachelor's Degree, Wuhan University
Professional Experience
2021/06-Now Professor, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University
2006/12-2021/06 Associate Professor, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University
2004/12-2006/12 Lecturer, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University
Research Area
Virus pathogenicity, host immune response mechanisms, and pathogen epidemiology
Awards and Honors
2021 “Yangzi River Scholars Program” awarded by the Ministry of Education
2023 Highly Cited Researcher 2023 (Clarivate)
2020 Top ten members in scientific research on COVID-19 epidemics (Wuhan University)
Selected Publications
Weiyong Liu#; Qi Zhang#; Junbo Chen#; Rong Xiang; Huijuan Song; Sainan Shu; Ling Chen; Lu Liang; Jiaxin Zhou; Lei You; Peng Wu; Bo Zhang; Yanjun Lu; Liming Xia; Lu Huang; Yang Yang; Fang Liu; Malcolm G Semple; Benjamin J. Cowling; Ke Lan*; Ziyong Sun*; Hongjie Yu*; Yingle Liu*; Detection of Covid-19 in Children in Early January 2020 in Wuhan, China, The New England Journal of Medicine, 2020, 382(14): 1370-1371
Liangjun Chen#; Weiyong Liu#; Qi Zhang#; Ke Xu; Guangming Ye; Weichen Wu; Ziyong Sun; Fang Liu; Kailang Wu; Bo Zhong; Yi Mei; Wenxia Zhang; Yu Chen*; Yirong Li*; Mang Shi*; Ke Lan*; Yingle Liu*; RNA based mNGS approach identifies a novel human coronavirus from two individual pneumonia cases in 2019 Wuhan outbreak, Emerging Microbes & Infections, 2020, 9(9): 313-319
Wang, Wenbiao#; Li, Geng#; Wu, De#; Luo, Zhen#; Pan, Pan; Tian, Mingfu; Wang, Yingchong; Xiao, Feng; Li, Aixin; Wu, Kailang; Liu, Xiaohong; Rao, Lang; Liu, Fang*; Liu, Yingle*; Wu, Jianguo*; Zika virus infection induces host inflammatory responses by facilitating NLRP3 inflammasome assembly and interleukin-1 beta secretion, Nature Communications, 2018, 9(9): 106
Yu Yang#; Jian Min#; Ting Xue#; Pengcheng Jiang; Xin Liu; Rouming Peng; Jian-Wen Huang; Yingying Qu; Xian Li; Ning Ma; Fang-Chang Tsai; Longhai Dai; Qi Zhang; Yingle Liu*; Chun-Chi Chen*; Rey-Ting Guo*; Complete bio-degradation of poly(butylene adipate-co-terephthalate) via engineered cutinases, Nature Communications, 2023, 14(1)
Yang Yang; Weiyong Liu; Dan Hu; Rui Su; Man Ji; Yuqing Huang; Muhammad Adnan Shereen; Xiaodi Xu; Zhen Luo; Qi Zhang; Fang Liu; Kailang Wu*; Yingle Liu*; Jianguo Wu*; HIV-1 Nef Interacts with LMP7 To Attenuate Immunoproteasome Formation and Major Histocompatibility Complex Class I Antigen Presentation, mBio, 2020, 11(5)