Associate Professor/Senior Engineer
Liu Pi

Title:Liu Pi

E-mail:liu_p@tib.cas.cn

Research Interest

1/Rational Design of Enzymes: Employing methods such as molecular dynamics, quantum chemistry, and machine learning to rationally design and modify enzymes in terms of their catalytic activity, structural stability, substrate specificity, and cofactor dependency.

2/Design of Biological Probes: By designing and modifying the substrate binding pocket and the elastic network of transcriptional regulatory factors, develop biological probes specific for certain compounds.

3/Design of Biosynthetic Pathways: Utilizing the retrosynthetic approach from organic synthesis combined with deep learning algorithms to construct entirely new biosynthetic pathways.

Education & Professional Experience

1998-2002, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Chemistry, Bachelor’s

2002-2005, State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Pesticide Science, Master’s

2005-2011, State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Pesticide Science, Ph.D.

2012-2015, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Drug Design, Postdoctoral

2015 to present, Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Enzyme Design