Biography
Kevin Liu is a professor of bioinformatics in the Division of Biomedical Informatics and Genomics at the School of Medicine. He did postdoctoral training at the University of Western Ontario, the University of Waterloo, and the University of California–San Diego from 2008 to 2012. Before joining Tulane, he worked at the Department of BioHealth Informatics, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis for nine years. Liu’s research focuses on computational proteomics, especially mass spectrometry-based top-down proteomics, which can identify various proteoforms with alterations in biological samples. Liu’s lab has developed powerful software for top-down mass spectrometry-based proteoform identification, characterization and quantitation. These efficient tools, including TopFD, TopPIC and TopMG, have been widely used in the proteomics community. They facilitate the application of top-down mass spectrometry in disease biomarker discovery, proteoform database annotation and protein function studies.
