PhD 2007.09-2012.12, Zhejiang University
Joint PhD 2010.09-2012.09, Harvard University
BE 2003.09-2007.06, Xinjiang Agricultural University

2022.01-present, joint appointment at Shanghai Jiaotong University
2016.12-present, Polar Research Institute of China, Associate Researcher
2013.04-2016.11, Polar Research Institute of China, Assistant Researcher

1. Microbial Adaptation and Evolution
Uncovering the evolved strategies by microbes in the polar regions to survive extreme environments
2. Polar Microbes and Climate Change
Understanding the impacts of climate change on microbes in the polar regions, as well as microbial responses to climate and environmental changes
3. Microbial Resources and Biotechnology
Exploring novel microbial species, genetic materials and products

1. 2020.01-2023.12, National Natural Science Foundation of China (41976224)
2. 2018.08-2021.12, National Key Research and Development Program of China (2018YFC1406702)
3. 2017.01 -2017.12, Projects of International Cooperation supported by Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration (IC201711)
4. 2015.01-2017.12, National Natural Science Foundation of China (41406181)
5. 2013.10-2016.09, Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai (13ZR1462700)

1. Liao L.*, #, Su S.Y. #, Zhang Y.J., Liu H., Zhang X.Y., Zhang J. Wen J., Chen B., Yu Y. (2021) Pseudopuniceibacterium antarcticum sp. nov., isolated from an Antarctic marine sponge. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 71.
2. Liao L.*, Gao S., Xu Y., Su S., Wen J., Yu Y., and Chen B. (2021) Complete genome sequence of Marinomonas arctica BSI20414, a giant antifreeze protein-producing bacterium isolated from Arctic sea ice. Mar Genomics: 57: 100829.
3. Liao L.*, Liu C., Zeng Y., Zhao B., Zhang J., and Chen B. (2019) Multipartite genomes and the sRNome in response to temperature stress of an Arctic Pseudoalteromonas fuliginea BSW20308. Environ Microbiol 21: 272–285.
4. Liao L.*, #, Su S. #, Zhao B., Fan C., Zhang J., Li H., and Chen B*. (2019) Biosynthetic potential of a novel Antarctic actinobacterium Marisediminicola antarctica ZS314T revealed by genomic data mining and pigment characterization. Mar Drugs 17 (7): 388.
5. Liao L.*, Su S., Yu Y., Zhang J., and Chen B*. (2019) Complete genome and data mining of Aeromicrobium sp. A1–2 isolated from the Southern Ocean. Mar Genomics 45: 5–7.
6. Su S.#, Liao L.*,#, Yu Y., Zhang J., and Chen B.* (2019) Genomic data mining of an Antarctic deep-sea actinobacterium, Janibacter limosus P3-3-X1. Mar Genomics 48.
7. Zhao B.#, Liao L.*,#, Yu Y., and Chen B.* (2017) Complete genome of Brachybacterium sp. P6-10-X1 isolated from deep-sea sediments of the Southern Ocean. Mar Genomics 35: 27–29.
8. Liu Q, Wu Y-H, Liao L, Zhang D-S, Yuan Y, Wang ZA, Wang C-S, Xu X-W*. (2018) Shift of Bacterial Community Structures in Sediments From the Changjiang (Yangtze River) Estuary to the East China Sea Linked to Environmental Gradients. Geomicrobiol J 35:898-907.
9. Yu Y., Zhao B., Wang L., Liao L., Song L., Wang X., Liu G. (2017) Complete genome of Nocardiopsis dassonvillei strain NOCA502F isolated from sediment of the Arctic Ocean. Mar Genomics 34: 27-29.
10. Liao L., Chen R., Jiang M., Tian X., Liu H., Yu Y., Fan C., Chen B*. (2016) Bioprospecting potential of halogenases from Arctic marine actinomycetes. BMC Microbiol 16: 34.
11. Wang J., Wei X., Qin X., Tian X., Liao L., Li K., Zhou X., Yang X., Wang F., Zhang T., Tu Z., Chen B., Liu Y. (2016) Antiviral Merosesquiterpenoids Produced by the Antarctic Fungus Aspergillus ochraceopetaliformis SCSIO 05702. J Nat Prod 79: 59-65.
12. Liao L., Sun X., Zeng Y., Luo W., Yu Y., Chen B.* (2015) A new l-haloacid dehalogenase from the Arctic psychrotrophic Pseudoalteromonas sp. BSW20308. Polar Biol 38(8):1161-1169.
13. Liao L., Sun X., Yu Y., and Chen B.* (2015) Draft genome of Marinomonas sp. BSi20584 from Arctic sea ice. Mar Genomics 23: 23–25.
14. Wang J., He W., Qin X., Wei X., Tian X., Liao L., Liao S., Yang B., Tu Z, Chen B., Wang F., Zhou X., Liu Y. (2015) Three new indolyl diketopiperazine metabolites from the antarctic soil-derived fungus Penicillium sp. SCSIO 05705. RSC Advances 5:68736–68742.
15. Liao L., Wankel S.D., Wu M., Cavanaugh C.M., Girguis P.R.* (2014) Characterizing the plasticity of nitrogen metabolism by the host and symbionts of the hydrothermal vent chemoautotrophic symbioses Ridgeia piscesae. Mol Ecol 23:1544–1557.
16. Dmytrenko O., Russell S.L., Loo W.T., Fontanez K.M., Liao L., Roeselers G., Sharma R., Stewart F.J., Newton I.L., Woyke T., Wu D., Lang J.M., Eisen J.A., Cavanaugh C.M. (2014) The genome of the intracellular bacterium of the coastal bivalve, Solemya velum: a blueprint for thriving in and out of symbiosis. BMC Genomics 15:924.
17. Wu Y.#, Liao L.#, Wang C., Ma W., Meng F., Wu M., Xu X.* (2013) A comparison of microbial communities in deep-sea polymetallic nodules and the surrounding sediments in the Pacific Ocean. Deep Sea Res. Part I Oceanogr. Res. Pap. 79:40–49.
18. Zhu XF, Tan HQ, Zhu C, Liao L, Zhang X.Q., Wu M.* (2012) Cloning and overexpression of a new chitosanase gene from Penicillium sp. D-1. AMB Express 2(1):13.
19. Liao L., Xu X.W., Jiang X.W., Cao Y., Yi N., Huo Y.Y., Wu Y.H., Zhu X.F., Zhang X.Q., Wu M.* (2011) Cloning, expression, and characterization of a new β-agarase from Vibrio sp. strain CN41. Appl Environ Microbiol 77(19): 7077–7079.
20. Liao L., Xu X.W., Jiang X.W., Wang C.S., Zhang D.S., Ni J.Y., Wu, M.* (2011) Microbial diversity in deep-sea sediment from the cobalt-rich crust deposit region in the Pacific Ocean. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 78(3): 565–585.
21. Wang, C.S., Liao, L., Xu, H.X., Xu, X.W., Wu, M., and Zhu, L.Z. (2010) Bacterial diversity in the sediment from polymetallic nodule fields of the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone. J Microbiol 48: 573–585.
22. Liao L., Xu X.W., Wang CS, Zhang DS, Wu M.* (2009) Bacterial and archaeal communities in the surface sediment from the northern slope of the South China Sea. J Zhejiang Univ Sci B 10(12):890–901.
23. Cao, Y., Liao, L., Xu, X.W., Oren, A., and Wu, M. (2008) Aldehyde dehydrogenase of the haloalkaliphilic archaeon Natronomonas pharaonis and its function in ethanol metabolism. Extremophiles 12: 849–854.
24. Cao, Y., Liao, L., Xu, X.W., Oren, A., Wang, C., Zhu, X.F., and Wu, M. (2008) Characterization of alcohol dehydrogenase from the haloalkaliphilic archaeon Natronomonas pharaonis. Extremophiles 12: 471–476.

1. Guest Associate Editor of Frontiers in Microbiology
2. Member of Shanghai Society of Marine Microbiology Committee
3. Member of Shanghai Society of Marine Drug Committee