Chang Liu, PhD

Professor and Chancellor's Fellow, Biomedical Engineering at UC Irvine

Speaker

Chang Liu is Professor and Chancellor's Fellow of Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, and Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, the Director of the Center for Synthetic Biology, and the Director of the Engineering + Health Institute at UC Irvine. After graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard in 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry, Liu carried out his PhD at the Scripps Research Institute with Prof. Peter Schultz and his postdoc at UC Berkeley as a Miller Fellow with Prof. Adam Arkin. His group engineers specialized genetic systems that continuously and rapidly mutate user-selected genes in vivo, with applications in directed evolution, protein engineering, evolutionary biology, cell biology, and development.