Sloan Research Fellowship (2016-2018) NIH New Innovator Award (2015-2020) Beckman Young Investigator Award (2015-2019) Dupont Young Professor Award (2015-2017) Miller Research Fellowship (2009-2012) Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Fellowship (2005-2009) The National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2005-2008) The Scripps Research Institute Dean's Fellowship Award (2005) Blumberg Creative Science Award (2005) Harvard Phi Beta Kappa (2004) Pfizer Synthetic Organic Chemistry Undergraduate Research Fellowship (2004) Harvard College Research Scholarship (2003) John Harvard Scholarship (2002) United States Presidential Scholar (2001)

Chemical Biology

Directed evolution, Synthetic Biology, Genetic Engineering, DNA replication

Schwessinger B, Li X, Ellinghaus TL,…*Liu CC, *Ronald PC. A Second-Generation Expression System for Tyrosine-Sulfated Proteins and its Application in Crop Protection. Integrative Biology, 8, 542-545 (2016). Pruitt R et al. (29 authors total). The Rice Immune Receptor XA21 Recognizes a Tyrosine-Sulfated Protein from a Gram-Negative Bacterium. Science Advances, 1, e1500245 (2015). Ravikumar A, *Liu CC. Biocontainment through Reengineered Genetic Codes. ChemBioChem, 16, 1149-1151 (2015). Li X, *Liu CC. Biological Applications of Expanded Genetic Codes. ChemBioChem, 15, 2335-2341 (2014). Ravikumar A, Arrieta A, *Liu CC. An Orthogonal DNA Replication System in Yeast. Nature Chemical Biology, 10, 175-177 (2014). Chen M, Wang L, Liu CC, *Nie Q. Noise Attenuation in the ON and OFF States of Biological Switches. ACS Synthetic Biology, 2, 587-593 (2013). Guimares JC, Liu CC, *Arkin AP. From Biological Parts to Circuit Design. In H. Zhao (Ed.), Synthetic Biology (pp. 63-77). London: Academic Press (2013). Liu CC, Qi L, Lucks JB, Segall-Shapiro TH, Wang D, Mutalik VK, *Arkin AP. An Adaptor from Translational to Transcriptional Control Enables Predictable Assembly of Complex Regulation. Nature Methods, 9, 1088-1094 (2012). Qi L, Lucks JB, Liu CC, Mutalik VK, *Arkin AP. Engineering Naturally Occurring Trans-Acting Non-Coding RNAs to Sense Cellular Signals. Nucleic Acids Research, 40, 5775-5786 (2012). *Liu CC, Qi L, Yanofsky C, *Arkin AP. Regulation of Transcription by Unnatural Amino Acids. Nature Biotechnology, 29, 164-168 (2011).