Yuqing Liu

Office: 314-362-3543        yliuc@artsci.wustl.edu

Education

2002 – present (expected 2008)      Ph.D. candidate, Neuroscience
                                           Washington University, St. Louis, MO
                                           Thesis: “Inactivation reveals effector-specific and general attentional roles of different parietal areas .”
                                           Thesis Advisor: Lawrence H. Snyder, M.D., Ph.D.

 

1994 - 2001                                          M.D. Medicine / M.S. Clinical medical science
                                            Nankai University School of Medicine (first in class), China

 

 

Awards and Honors

2007                                                      Gordon Research Conference Travel Award

1999                                                      Brilliance Foundation Scholarship (Nankai University)

1997-1998                                            Nankai University Scholarship

1994-1995                                            Medical Scientist Training Scholarship (Nankai University School of Medicine)

 

Research Experience

2002 – present                                     Ph.D. thesis: Develop muscimol-Mn-MRI technique to visualize reversible inactivation injections and

                                                                                        use it to examine the causal roles of LIP and PRR in oculomotor, reaching, and

                                                                                        visual attentional processing.

2000-2001                                            Master thesis: The relationship between nitric oxide, nitric oxide synthase, excitatory amino acids and

                                                                                         cerebral hemodynamic phases following traumatic brain injury.
                                            Principle Investigator: Mu Li, M.D./Ph.D, Department of Neurosurgery, Tianjin First Central Hospital.

 

 

Abstracts & Publications

Liu Y and Snyder LH. LIPv subserves covert attention while LIPd subserves saccade intention. (in preparation)

Liu Y and Snyder LH. Saccadic and attentional deficits after lateral intraparietal area inactivation in monkeys. (in preparation)

Liu Y, Yttri EA, and Snyder LH. Inactivation reveals effector-specific roles of LIPd and PRR. (in preparation)

Liu Y, Yttri EA, and Snyder LH. Reversible inactivation reveals that LIPv subserves general attention while LIPd subserves saccadic intention. Society for Neuroscience Abstract (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