PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2018 - present Associate Professor of Microbiology, Integrative Microbiology Research Centre, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou
EDUCATION
2014-2018 Ph.D. Plant Pathology, South China Agricultural University
2012-2014 M.S., Plant Pathology, South China Agricultural University
2008-2012 B.A., Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University
INTERNATIONAL TRAINING
2020-2021 Visiting Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
2016-2017 Joint doctoral program student, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
RESEARCH SUPPORT
31900076 NCFS (Liao)
01/2020 – 12/2022
Study on AHLs type quorum sensing in Bosea sp.OK403
2022A1515010564 BABRFGPNSF (Liao)
01/2022 – 12/2024
Study on quorum sensing control ICE_BL06
202102020853 BABRPGBRP (Liao)
04/2021 – 03/2023
Study on AHLs type quorum sensing in Methylobacterium oryzae CBMB20
Research Fields
2. Regulation of plant pathogenic bacteria virulence genes
3. Bacteriophages control pathogenic bacteria
Selected Publications
1. Wang H#, Liao L#, Zhou X, Dong L, Lin X and Zhang L, 2022. Genome Sequence Resource of a Quorum-Quenching Biocontrol Agent, Pseudomonas nitroreducens HS-18. Mol Plant Microbe Interact, I12210310A.( co-first author)
2. Huang S, Chen Z, Hu M, Xue Y, Liao L# and Zhang L#, 2021. First Report of Bacterial Soft Rot Disease on Taro Caused by Dickeya fangzhongdai in China. Plant Disease, 105, 3737. (co-corresponding author)
3. Wang H, Liao L, Chen S and Zhang LH, 2020. A Quorum Quenching Bacterial Isolate Contains Multiple Substrate-Inducible Genes Conferring Degradation of Diffusible Signal Factor. Appl Environ Microbiol, 86.
4. Liao L, Schaefer AL, Coutinho BG, Brown P and Greenberg EP, 2018. An aryl-homoserine lactone quorum-sensing signal produced by a dimorphic prosthecate bacterium. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 115, 7587-92.
5. Liao L, Hei R, Tang Y, Liu S and Zhou J, 2016. First Report of Soft Rot Disease of Peach Caused by Pantoea ananatis in China. PLANT DISEASE, 100, 516.
6. Liao L, Zhou J and Wang H, et al., 2015. Control of litchi downy blight by zeamines produced by Dickeya zeae. Scientific Reports, 5.
7. Liao L, Cheng Y and Liu S, et al., 2014. Production of novel antibiotics zeamines through optimizing Dickeya zeae fermentation conditions. PLoS One, 9, e116047.
8. Zhan H, Wang H, Liao L, Feng Y, Fan X, Zhang L, Chen S. 2018.Kinetics and Novel Degradation Pathway of Permethrin in Acinetobacter baumannii ZH-14. FRONT MICROBIOL 9:98.