研究方向：
目前课题组主要从事植物表观遗传学、基因表达调控领域的研究，通过基因组学、遗传学和细胞生物学的研究手段手段，探究基因和转座子逃脱DNA甲基化抑制效应的分子机制，并探索表观遗传机制在植物细胞命运决定和组织再生中的应用。
代表性科研论文：
1. Liu, Q.*, Bischof, S.*, Harris, C.J., Zhong, Z., Zhan, L., Nguyen, C., Rashoff, A., Barshop, W.D., Sun, F., Feng, S., et al.(2020). The characterization of Mediator 12 and 13 as conditional positive gene regulators in Arabidopsis. Nat Commun11, 2798. *co-first author
2. Chen, M., Liu, Q., Gao, S.S., Young, A.E., Jacobsen, S.E., and Tang, Y. (2019). Genome mining and biosynthesis of a polyketide from a biofertilizer fungus that can facilitate reductive iron assimilation in plant. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A116, 5499-5504.
3. Yan, Y., Liu, Q., Jacobsen, S.E., and Tang, Y. (2018a). The impact and prospect of natural product discovery in agriculture: New technologies to explore the diversity of secondary metabolites in plants and microorganisms for applications in agriculture. EMBO Rep19.
4. Yan, Y.*, Liu, Q.*, Zang, X.*, Yuan, S., Bat-Erdene, U., Nguyen, C., Gan, J., Zhou, J., Jacobsen, S.E., and Tang, Y. (2018b). Resistance-gene-directed discovery of a natural-product herbicide with a new mode of action. Nature559, 415-418. *co-first author
5. Zhang, Y.*, Harris, C.J.*, Liu, Q.*, Liu, W., Ausin, I., Long, Y., Xiao, L., Feng, L., Chen, X., Xie, Y., et al.(2018). Large-scale comparative epigenomics reveals hierarchical regulation of non-CG methylation in Arabidopsis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A115, E1069-E1074. *co-first author
6. Coruh, C., Cho, S.H., Shahid, S., Liu, Q., Wierzbicki, A., and Axtell, M.J. (2015). Comprehensive Annotation of Physcomitrella patens Small RNA Loci Reveals That the Heterochromatic Short Interfering RNA Pathway Is Largely Conserved in Land Plants. Plant Cell27, 2148-2162.
7. Liu, Q., and Axtell, M.J. (2015). Quantitating plant microRNA-mediated target repression using a dual-luciferase transient expression system. Methods Mol Biol1284, 287-303.
8. Brousse, C., Liu, Q., Beauclair, L., Deremetz, A., Axtell, M.J., and Bouche, N. (2014). A non-canonical plant microRNA target site. Nucleic Acids Res42, 5270-5279.
9. Liu, Q., Wang, F., and Axtell, M.J. (2014). Analysis of complementarity requirements for plant microRNA targeting using a Nicotiana benthamiana quantitative transient assay. Plant Cell26, 741-753.
