Experience
My research interests include nutrition and immunology of freshwater prawns. I have fifteen years’ research experience in aquaculture and feed formation, selection of new feed materials, fishmeal and fish oil replacement and feed management of Penaeus vannamei, crayfish Procambarus clarkii, and the freshwater prawns Macrobrachium rosenbergii and M. nipponensis in China. I am currently exploring use of transcriptomics, metabolomics and proteomics to understand nutrient needs, metabolism, stress and immunity and use of ingredients from diets and regulation of Chinese herbs.
Projects
- Nutrition and feed of freshwater prawns. Funded by the Modern Agriculture Industrial Technology System in 2017-2020.
- Study on nutrient requirements and functional feed of different temperature for the Freshwater Prawns. Funded by the National Nonprofit Institute Research Grant of Freshwater Fisheries Research Center, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences 2018-2020.
- Selection of Stress-associated Protein and its Nutrition Regulation for Megalobrama amblycephala. Funded by the National Nonprofit Institute Research Grant of Freshwater Fisheries Research Center, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences in 2014-2015.
- Research of extracts of Chinese herbal in the diet on the function proteomics for Megalobrama amblycephala. Funded by the National Nonprofit Institute Research Grant of Freshwater Fisheries Research Center, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences in 2013-2014.
- Regulation of Anthraquinone Extract from Rheum officinale Baill on the Pathogenic infection of Megalobrama amblycephala under High Temperature and High Concentration of Ammonia. Funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2012-2014.
Publications
- Song C., Cui Y., Liu B.*, Xie J., Ge X., & Xu P. (2018). Hsp60 and hsp90β from blunt snout bream, Megalobrama amblycephala: molecular cloning, characterization, and comparative response to intermittent thermal stress and Aeromonas hydrophila infection. Fish Shellfish Immunol., 74, 119-132.
- Song C.Y., Liu B.*, Xu P., Xie J., Ge X., Xu P., Zhou Q.L., Sun C.X., Zhang H.M., Shan F., Yang Z.F. (2018). Oxidized fish oil injury stress in Megalobrama amblycephala: Evaluated by growth, intestinal physiology, and transcriptome-based PI3K-Akt/NF-κB/TCR inflammatory signaling. Fish Shellfish Immunol., 81,446-455.
- Song C., Liu B.*, Xie J., Ge X., Zhao Z., Zhang Y., Zhang H., Ren M., Zhou Q., Miao L., Xu P., Lin Y. (2017). Comparative proteomic analysis of liver antioxidant mechanisms in Megalobrama amblycephala stimulated with dietary emodin. Scientific Reports, 2017, 7: 40356.
- Zhao Z.X., Xie J., Liu B.*, Ge X., Song C., Ren M., Zhou Q., Miao L., Zhang H., Shan F., Yang Z. (2017). The effects of emodin on cell viability, respiratory burst and gene expression of Nrf2-Keap1 signaling molecules in the peripheral blood leukocytes of blunt snout bream (Megalobrama amblycephala). Fish Shellfish Immunol., 62: 75-85.
- Liu B., Zhao Z.X., Brown P.B., Cui H.H., Xie J., Habte-Tsion H.M., Ge X.P. (2016). Dietary vitamin A requirement of juvenile Wuchang bream (Megalobrama amblycephala) determined by growth and disease resistance. Aquaculture,450: 23-30.
- Liu B., Cui Y., Brown P.B., Ge X.P., Xie J., Xu P. (2016). Cytotoxic effects and apoptosis induction of enrofloxacin in hepatic cell line of grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus). Fish Shellfish Immunol., 47(2): 639-644.
- Habte-Tsion H.M., Ge X., Liu B.*, Xie J., Ren M.C., Zhou Q.L., Miao L.H., Pan L.K., Chen R.L. (2015). A deficiency or an excess of dietary threonine level affects weight gain, enzyme activity, immune response and immune-related gene expression in juvenile blunt snout bream (Megalobrama amblycephala). Fish Shellfish Immunol., 42(2): 439-446.
- Miao L.H., Xie J., Ge X.P., Wang K.B., Zhu J., Liu B. (2015). Chronic stress effects of high doses of vitamin D3 on Megalobrama amblycephala. Fish Shellfish Immunol., 47(1), 205-213.
- Liu B., Xu P., Xie J, Ge X.P., Xia S.L., Song C.Y., Zhou C.P., Miao L.H., Ren M.C., Pan L.K., Chen R.L. (2014). Effects of emodin and vitamin E on the growth and crowding stress of Wuchang bream (Megalobrama amblycephala). Fish Shellfish Immunol., 40(2): 595-602.
- Cui Y.T., Liu B.*, Xie J., Xu P., Habte-Tsion H.M., Zhang Y.Y. (2014). The effect of emodin on cytotoxicity, apoptosis and antioxidant capacity in the hepatic cells of grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus). Fish Shellfish Immunol., 38(1): 74-79.
- Wan J., Ge X., Liu B., Xie J., Cui S.L., Zhou M., Xia S.L., Chen R.L. (2014). Effect of dietary vitamin C on non-specific immunity and mRNA expression of three heat shock proteins (HSPs) in juvenile Megalobrama amblycephala under pH stress. Aquaculture, 434: 325-333.
- Liu B., Xu L., Ge X., Xie J., Xu P., Zhou Q., Pan L., Zhang Y. (2013). Effects of mannan oligosaccharide on the physiological responses, HSP70 gene expression and disease resistance of Allogynogenetic crucian carp (Carassius auratus gibelio) under Aeromonas hydrophila infection. Fish Shellfish Immunol., 34(6): 1395-1403.
- Liu B., Xu L., Ge X.P., Xie J., Xu P., Zhou Q.L., Pan L.K., Zhang Y.Y. (2012). Effects of anthraquinone extract from Rheum officinale Bail on the physiological responses and HSP70 gene expression of Megalobrama amblycephala under Aeromonas hydrophila infection. Fish Shellfish Immunol., 32(1): 1-7.