Resume：

• 2022.01 ~ Associate professor Plant Germplasm Research Center, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  2016.10 - 2021.12 PhD and Postdoc Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany
  2013.09 - 2016.07 Master degree in Bioinformatics National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China
  2010.09 - 2014.07 Bachelor of science in Biotechnology College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China

Professional specialty：

• Bioinformatics, Quantitative Genetics, Plant Breeding

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Academic service：

• Review Editor of Frontiers in Plant Science

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Major publications：

• 1. Schulthess AW^#, Kale SM^#, Liu F^#, Zhao YS, Philipp N, Rembe M, Jiang Y, Beukert U, Serfling A, Himmelbach A, Fuchs J, Oppermann M, Weise S, Boeven PHG, Schacht J, Longin CFH, Kollers S, Pfeiffer N, Korzun V, Lange M, Scholz U, Stein N, Mascher M^*, Reif JC^*. 2022. Genomics-informed prebreeding unlocks the diversity in genebanks for wheat improvement. Nature Genetics, 54(10): 1544-1552.
  2. Liu F, Zhao YS. Beier S, Jiang Y, Thorwarth P CFHL, Ganal M, Himmelbach A, Reif JC*, Schulthess AW. 2020. Exome association analysis sheds light onto leaf rust (Puccinia triticina) resistance genes currently used in wheat breeding (Triticum aestivum L.). Plant Biotechnology Journal, 18(6): 1396- 1408 .
  3. Liu F, Jiang Y, Zhao YS, Schulthess AW, Reif JC*. 2020. Haplotype-based genome-wide association increases the predictability of leaf rust (Puccinia triticina) resistance in wheat. Journal of Experimental Botany, 71(22): 6958-6968.
  4. Liu F, Schmidt RH, Reif JC^*, Jiang Y^*. 2019. Selecting Closely-Linked SNPs Based on Local Epistatic Effects for Haplotype Construction Improves Power of Association Mapping. G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics, 9(12): 4115-4126.
  5. Chen SL^#, Liu F^#, Wu W, Jiang Y^*, Zhan KH^*. 2021. A SNP-based GWAS and functional haplotype-based GWAS of flag leaf-related traits and their influence on the yield of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 134(12): 3895- 3909.