The Liau Lab conducts research at the interface of chemical biology and genomics. Our lab is collaborative and multidisciplinary, combining organic chemistry, cell and molecular biology, protein biochemistry, and large-scale genetic screening to dissect molecular mechanisms underpinning biological processes, cancer mutations, and drug mechanism of action. One major research focus is understanding protein complexes that control genome function, with the long-term goal of defining and targeting functional sites, mechanisms, and dependencies for small molecule development.
Recent News
2024
December
A warm Liau Lab welcome to new group members: Chae-Rin and Karl, two CCB G1 students, as well as Yoochan, a new joint postdoc between our lab and Sumaiya Iqbal at the Broad Institute. Welcome to the team!
Also checkout our most recent preprint on TDAC-seq. Congratulations to Heejin, Simon, and Yan!
August
Big welcome to Silas, and undergrad at Harvard who is joining the team. And farewell to Chihiro and Sam, we appreciated our time working together and wish you the best as you return to the U.K.!
July
Congratulations to Brian and the lab for receiving the Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry!
June
The LSD1 N-terminus team publish their paper in Molecular Cell ! Also, congratulations to James on receiving an NIH F31 predoctoral fellowship!
And welcome to our undergrads Airi, Luke, Chihiro, and Sam joining us this summer.
May
Congratulations to Dr. Ceejay Lee on her PhD defense! In other news, we posted our lab's pre-prints describing our work on the mechanism of action of UM171 and KBTBD4 cancer mutations. Lastly, the lab also received a NIH R35 grant from NIGMS!
April
Congratulations to Simon on receiving an NIH F31 predoctoral fellowship!
March
Welcome to Amanda who is joining us for her postdoc. And, welcome to Olivia (Liv), a graduate student from CB who is joining our team!