Zhenyu Liu

🎓Education

• Ph.D. of Biology, 2021-2025 (expected), School of Life Sciences, Peking University
  • Research interests: single-cell omics, tumor heterogeneity, epigenetics
  • Advisor: Prof. Fuchou Tang
• B.Sc. of Biology, 2017-2021, Yuanpei College, Peking University
  • Research interests: pancreas development, cell fate regulation
  • Academic advisor: Prof. Chengran Xu

📚Teaching

• Freshman Seminar on General, Peking University. Teaching Assistant. 2018 Fall.
• Current Topics on Genetics, Peking University. Teaching Assistant. 2022 Fall.

🏆Awards & Honors

• Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST (Doctoral Student) 2025
• National Scholarship 2024
• Academic Innovation Award 2024
• Merit Student Pacesetter 2024
• Merit Student 2023, 2022
• Peking University President Scholarship 2023
• Awards for Academic Excellents 2018
• Freshman Scholarship 2017

🏓Tournaments

• 🥉 Bronze Medal. “PKU Cup” Table Tennis Championships. Team AAIS-SLS, 2024.
• 🥇 Gold Medal. “PKU Cup” Table Tennis Championships. Team AAIS-SLS, 2022.
• 🥈 Silver Medal. “PKU Cup” Table Tennis Championships. Team YPC-GSE, 2021.
• 🥉 Third Prize. Chinese University Table Tennis Championships, non-profesional group. Team PKU, 2019.

📝Selected Publications

1. Liu, Z.†, Hu, Y.†, Xie, H.†, Chen, K.†, Wen, L., Fu, W., Zhou, X.*, Tang, F.*, 2024. Single-Cell Chromatin Accessibility Analysis Reveals the Epigenetic Basis and Signature Transcription Factors for the Molecular Subtypes of Colorectal Cancers. Cancer Discovery 14, 1082–1105.
2. Liao, Y.†, Liu, Z.†, Zhang, Y.†, Lu, P., Wen, L., Tang, F.*, 2023. High-throughput and high-sensitivity full-length single-cell RNA-seq analysis on third-generation sequencing platform. Cell Discovery 9, 5.
3. Gao, Y.†, Zhang, J.†, Liu, Z.†, Qi, S.†, Guo, X., Wang, H., Cheng, Y., Tian, S., Ma, M., Peng, H., Wen, L., Tang, F.*, Yao, Y.*, 2022. Single-cell Sequencing Reveals Clearance of Blastula Chromosomal Mosaicism in In Vitro Fertilization Babies. Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics 20, 1224–1231.

Marks: co-first author†, corresponding author*. See full list of publications on Publication Page or Google Scholar.