Yuqing Liu
yuqing.eyehand@gmail.com
Education
Washington University in St. Louis, Ph.D., May 2009
Honors/Awards:
Nature Neuroscience
publication (journal ranked number one in subject specific field) (see "Science Publications" for
more details).
Developed muscimol + manganese-MRI technique to visualize reversible
inactivation sites and use it to examine the causal roles of macaque LIPd, LIPv, and PRR in
oculomotor, reaching, and attentional processing.
Ph.D. Thesis Advisor: Dr.
Lawrence H. Snyder, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of
Neurobiology, Washington University
4.0 GPA
Gordon Research Conference Travel
Award
Nankai University (Tianjin, China), B.S. (medical science) / M.S.
(medical science) / M.D., June 2001
Honors/Awards:
First in Class
Brilliance Foundation
Scholarship (1999) (awarded to the number one student in the class)
Nankai University
Scholarship (1997-98) (awarded to the number one student in the class)
Medical Scientist
Training Scholarship (1994-95) (awarded to the number one student in the class)
Master's Thesis: "The
Relationship Between Nitric Oxide, Nitric Oxide Synthase, Excitatory Amino
Acids and Cerebral Hemodynamic Phases Following Traumatic Brain Injury."
Master's
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Mu Li, M.D., Ph.D. / Department of Neurosurgery / Tianjin
First Central Hospital
creative writing
In
Another Sky (literary fiction novel) (2015)
SCIENCE
PUBLICATIONS AND ARTICLES
Liu Y, Yttri
EA, and Snyder LH. "Intention and Attention: Different Functional Roles
for LIPd and LIPv" (Nature Neuroscience, 13 (4): 495-500,
2010) (journal ranked number one in subject specific field)
Yttri EA, Liu Y, and Snyder LH. "Lesions of Cortical Area LIP Affect Reach Onset Only When the Reach is Accompanied by a Saccade, Revealing an Active Eye-Hand Coordination Circuit."
(Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences of the United States of America, 110(6): 2371-6, 2013) (official journal of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences)
Yttri
EA, Wang C, Liu Y, and Snyder
LH. "The Parietal Reach Region
is Limb Specific and not Involved in Eye-Hand Coordination." (Journal of Neurophysiology. 113(3):
520-32, 2014)
SCIENCE
PRESENTATIONS
Liu Y, Yttri EA, and Snyder LH. "Reversible Inactivation Reveals
that LIPv Subserves General
Attention while LIPd Subserves
Saccadic Intention." Society for Neuroscience
(Washington, DC), 2008.
Liu Y
and Snyder LH. "Effect of
Reversible Inactivation of Macaque Lateral Intraparietal Area on Saccades and Search." Gordon Research Conferences, Oculomotor
System Biology Abstract (Lewiston, ME), 2007