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Liang WANG Ph.D.

2020 Advanced Innovation Fellow, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology
2020 FRCBS Scientist, Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure
2020 Nomination Award of the 24th Tsinghua University graduate "Academic Rising Stars", Tsinghua University
2019 Keystone Symposia Future of Science Fund Scholarship (Biomolecular Condensates: Phase-Separated Organizers of Cellular Biochemistry), USA
2019 National Scholarship for Doctoral Students

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2010-2014School of Life Sciences, Northeast Normal University B.S.

2015-2020School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University Ph.D. Candidate

2020-presentSchool of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University Postdoc.

Main Research Fields

Biophysics, epigenetics, phase separation of biomacromolecules

Selected Publications

1.Fang X*, Wang L*, Ishikawa R*, Li Y, Fiedler M, Liu F, Calder G, Rowan B, Weigel D, Li P, Dean C. Arabidopsis FLL2 promotes liquid-liquid phase separation of polyadenylation complexes. Nature. 2019 May (*co-first author).

2.Wang L*, Gao Y*, Zheng X*, Liu C, Dong S, Li R, Zhang G, Wei Y, Qu H, Li Y, Allis CD, Li G, Li H, Li P. Histone Modifications Regulate Chromatin Compartmentalization by Contributing to a Phase Separation Mechanism. Mol Cell. 2019 Nov 21.
3.Wang L*, Hu M*, Zuo MQ, Zhao J, Wu D, Huang L, Wen Y, Li Y, Chen P, Bao X, Dong MQ, Li G, Li P. Rett syndrome-causing mutations compromise MeCP2-mediated liquid-liquid phase separation of chromatin. Cell Res. 2020 May.
4.Buttress T*, He S*, Wang L*, Zhou S*, Sun L, Saalbach G, Vickers M, Li P, Feng X. A histone variant condenses flowering plant sperm via chromatin phase separation. bioRxiv 2021.09.14 (*co-first author).
5. Buttress T#, He S#, Wang L #, Zhou S, Saalbach G, Vickers M, Li G, Li P, Feng X. Histone H2B.8 compacts flowering plant sperm through chromatin phase separation. Nature. 2022 Nov 2. doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05386-6. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36323776. 
6. Chen Z#, Hou C#, Wang L #, Yu C, Chen T, Shen B, Hou Y, Li P, Li T. Screening membraneless organelle participants with machine-learning models that integrate multimodal features. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 Jun 14;119(24): e2115369119.