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Dr. Ning Liu is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the South Australian Immunogenomics Cancer Institute (SAiGENCI) within the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Adelaide. As a bioinformatician and computational biologist, Dr. Liu specializes in developing computational tools for epigenetics and transcriptomics research, with particular expertise in next-generation sequencing data analysis including ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq, Hi-C, RNA-seq, single cell RNA-seq, and spatial transcriptomics.
Dr. Liu's research focuses on developing novel computational methods to study the human genome in the context of transcriptomics and epigenomics. Currently, Dr. Liu maintains three Bioconductor software packages: standR for spatial transcriptomics analysis of GeoMx DSP data, hoodscanR for cellular neighborhood detection in spatial transcriptomics, and scider for modeling global cell density in spatial transcriptomics data. With strong emphasis on translating biological insights to medical applications, Dr. Liu's work bridges computational methodology with clinical relevance in cancer research and immunology.
Dr. Liu is eligible to supervise Masters and PhD students as a Co-Supervisor, reflecting their established expertise in bioinformatics and computational biology. Their research has resulted in numerous publications focusing on spatial transcriptomics, cancer immunology, and computational tool development, with applications in understanding tumor microenvironments and immunotherapy response.
Dr. Liu's scholarly contributions demonstrate a consistent focus on spatial biology methodologies applied to cancer research, particularly head and neck cancer. Their publications reveal expertise in developing computational frameworks that address technical challenges in spatial transcriptomics while providing biological insights with potential clinical applications in immunotherapy.
As a research supervisor, Dr. Liu contributes to the academic community by mentoring graduate students in computational biology techniques and applications. Their work environment at the Adelaide Health and Medical Sciences building on the West End Health Precinct provides access to state-of-the-art facilities supporting their computational research in cancer immunogenomics.
