The Lingzhi Mushroom Genome (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783030757120)

Professor Chang Liu is currently Director of Bioinformatics Research Center in the Institute of Medicinal Plant Development (IMPLAD) affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Medical Science (CAMS) in Beijing, China. Professor Liu graduated from the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities Campus) with a Ph.D. degree in Animal Pathology and Master's degree in Computer Science. After graduation, he has worked in GlaxoSmithKline Corp (RTP, NC, USA), Yale University, The University of Hongkong, and IMPLAD of CAMS. Professor Liu has published more than eighty research papers on SCI-indexed journals including Science, Nature Communication, Nucleic Acids Research, PNAS, etc. He has edited four books and served as reviewers for a dozen biological journals. He has received more than twenty grants from various sources. His research interests include the genomics and biodiversity studies for medicinal plants. He was awarded two provincial awards for the Development of DNA Barcode-based Molecular Identification System for Medicinal Plants. His most recent work focuses on the "1000 Medicinal Plant Genome Project" sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Medical Science (CAMS) and Illumina Corporation since 2017. He also serves as Deputy Editor and Editor-in-Chief for the SCI-indexed journal Mitochondrial DNA Part B-Resources from December 2019.