Yan Liao
Dr. Yan Liao is a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UTS. She has a strong interest in the cell biology of Archaea – microorganisms that represent one of three fundamental lineages of cellular life. She completed her PhD in 2017 at UNSW, where she developed a genetic manipulation system for cold-adapted Archaea and investigated how Archaea respond and adapt to low temperature and hypersaline environments. Recently, She has led the breakthrough discoveries on a new mode of archaeal cell division and its regulation. These studies have provided a new level of understanding about the evolution of cell division machinery central to all cellular life. Her current research is focusing on the molecular basis for cell division and shape in the model archaeon Haloferax volcanii.
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