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Dr. Mo-Fang Liu earned her Ph.D. degree from the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2000, under the supervision of Professors Ying-Lai Wang and En-Duo Wang. Her doctoral studies focused on the arginyl-tRNA synthetase from E. coli. From 2000 to 2005, she served as a postdoctoral fellow in the labs of Drs. Sankar Adhya and Susan Garges at the National Cancer Institute, NIH, where her research was centered on transcriptional regulation in bacteria. From 2005 to 2006, she was a research assistant in Professor Nancy Craig's lab at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and her studies involved the transposition of transposon Tn7. In 2006, Dr. Liu joined Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, CAS, and initiated a new research direction in her group, focusing on the functions of small regulatory RNAs in male germ cells and their implications in male infertility and tumors. During past years, her group has made several major discoveries regarding the roles of PIWI/piRNA complexes, as well as RNA-binding proteins, in spermatogenesis and their association with male infertility. These findings have contributed to our understanding of post-transcriptional regulation in postmeiotic spermatids and the pathological causes of male infertility.

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