Bing Liu (scientist) explained

Bing Liu (October 20, 1982 – May 2, 2020) was a Chinese-born American scientist and coronavirus researcher living and researching in the United States.^[1] He was a Research Assistant Professor of Computational & Systems Biology Department at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.^[1] He was 37 years old at the time of his death, in which he was shot dead in his home. The case received American and Chinese media coverage.^[1]

Death

Liu was found dead at his home on May 2, 2020.^[1] His work on coronaviruses led to speculation that his murder was related to his work, but Pittsburgh Police said that he was shot as a result of a murder-suicide.^[1] The gunman was 46-year-old software engineer Hao Gu.^[1] The police said that the murder was the result of a dispute over an intimate partner and that after murdering Bing Liu the gunman had gone back to his car and shot himself.^[1]

Works

Books

• B Liu. Computational Modeling of Biological Pathways: Probabilistic Approximation and Analysis Techniques. Lambert Academic Publishing,, Jan 2012. (176 pages)

Most recent articles

• W Sun, V Tyurin, G Mao, I Shrivastava, B Liu, Y Zhai, S Korolev, A Abramov, P Angelova, I Miller, O Beharier, H Dar, O Kapralov, T Hastings, J Greenamyre, C Chu, I Bahar, Y Sadovsky, H Bayır, Y Tyurina, R He, V Kagan "iPLA2G6 Protects Cells against Ferroptosis by Hydrolyzing the Lipid Signal of Death, 15-HpETE-PE: Relevance to Parkinson Disease Pathogenesis, "Nature Neuroscience, under review (2020).
• B Liu. "A Model Checking-based Analysis Framework for Systems Biology Models", The 57th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, US (2020). IEEE, pp. 1–6
• Q Shi, F Pei, G Silverman, S Pak, D Perlmutter, B Liu, I Bahar." Mechanisms of Action of Autophagy Modulators Dissected by Quantitative Systems Pharmacology Analysis," International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 21(8). 2855 (2020). doi: 10.3390/ijms21082855
• S Thermozier, W Hou, X Zhang, D Shields, R Fisher, H Bayir, V Kagam, J Yu, B Liu, I Bahar, M W Epperly, P Wipf, H Wang, and J S Greenberger. "Anti-Ferroptosis Drug Enhances Total Body Irradiation Mitigation by Drugs that Block Apoptosis and Necroptosis," Radiation Research, [Epub ahead of print] (2020). doi: 10.1667/RR15486.1
• O Kapralov, Q Yang, H Dar, Y Tyurina, T Anthonymuthu, R Kim, C St. Croix, K Mikulska-Ruminska, B Liu, I Shrivastava, V Tyurin, H-C Ting, Y Wu, Y Gao, R Domingues, D Stoyanovsky, R Mallampalli, I Bahar, D Gabrilovich, H Bayir, and V Kagan "Redox Lipid Reprogramming Commands Susceptibility of Macrophages and Microglia to Ferroptotic Death," Nature Chemical Biology, 16:2780-290 (2020). doi: 10.1038/s41589-019-0462-8
• S Thermozier, X Zhang, W Hou, R Fisher, M W Epperly, B Liu, I Bahar, S Markovina, C Luke, G Silverman, and J S Greenberger. "Radioresistance of Serpinb3a-/- Mice and Derived Hematopoietic and Marrow Stromal Cell Lines," Radiation Research, 192(3):267-281 (2019). doi: 10.1667/RR15379.1.
• F Pei, H Li, B Liu, I Bahar. "Quantitative Systems Pharmacological Analysis of Drugs of Abuse Reveals the Pleiotropy of Their Targets and the Effector Role of mTORC1", Frontiers in Pharmacology, 10:191 (2019). doi: 10.3389/fphar.2019.00191

Most highly cited articles

• V E Kagan, G Mao, F Qu, J P F Angeli, S Doll, C S Croix, H Dar, B Liu, V A Tyurin, V B Ritov, O A Kapralov, A A Amoscato, J Jiang, T Anthonymuthu, D Mohammadyani, Q Yang, J Klein-Seetharaman, S Watkins, I Bahar, J Greenberger, R Mallampalli, B R Stockwell, Y Y Tyurina, M Conrad, H Bayir. Oxidized Arachidonic and Adrenic PEs Navigate Cells to Ferroptosis, Nature Chemical Biology, 13:81-90 (2017). doi:10.1038/nchembio.2238. Cited 320 times according to Google Scholar ^[2]
• B Liu, J Zhang, P Y Tan, D Hsu, A M Blom, B Leong, S Sethi, B Ho, J L Ding, P S Thiagarajan. A Computational and Experimental Study of the Regulatory Mechanisms of the Complement System. "PLoS Computational Biology, 7(1):e1001059 (2011).
• H Zhou, S Gao, N N Nguyen, M Fan, J Jin, B Liu, L Zhao, G Xiong, M Tan, S Li, L Wong. Stringent Homology-based Prediction of H. sapiens-M. tuberculosis H37Rv Protein-Protein Interactions. Biology Direct, 9(5):1-52 (2014). Cited 50 times according to Google Scholar

Sources

• Bing Liu, personal site / Research Assistant Professor, Computational & Systems Biology Department, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
• Bing Liu, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, Ph.D. in Computational Systems Biology, National U of Singapore

Notes and References

1. News: Coronavirus: Professor Bing Liu's murder fuels wild theories. Feng. Zhaoyin. 7 May 2020. 7 May 2020. BBC News.
2. https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=cDPdf_QAAAAJ "Bing Lui" Google Scholar Accessed June 9, 2020