Yuqing (Yuti) Liu
yuti.skies@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 used 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), M.D., June 2001 (7-year program: B.S. medical science + M.S./M.D.)
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
Adventus Astraeae,
the Sky Pass (literary novel) (2021)
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