中国科学院生物物理研究所博士，第十届国际生物大分子结晶大会青年科学家奖。2004年3月18日在国际权威杂志《Nature》以第一作者发表学术论文。这是第一篇由大陆科学家在生命科学领域独立完成的主导性文章，该成果标志了光合作用研究领域的重要跨越。
简历和研究概述
简历：
1994-1998 厦门大学生物学系生物学专业 理学学士
1998-2004 中国科学院生物物理研究所 理学博士
2004-2010 加州理工学院化学与化工系/霍华德修斯医学研究所 博士后/助理研究员
2011-至今 中国科学院生物物理研究所 研究员
2011年11月入选中国国家“青年千人计划”
Biography and Introduction
Education
1998 ~ 2004 Doctor of Science in Biophysics, August, 2004
Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China
1994 ~ 1998 Bachelor of Science in Biology, July, 1998
Department of Biology, Xiamen University, Fujian Province, China
Employment history
Dec. 2004 ~ Dec. 2010 Research Associate
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Postdoctoral Scholar
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California, USA
Jan. 2011 ~ present Investigator
Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
Nov. 2011- supported by the Young Thousand Talents Program
Selected Publications:1. Zhenfeng Liu, Troy A. Walton and Douglas C. Rees. A reported archaeal mechanosensitive channel is a structural homolog of MarR-like transcriptional regulators. Protein Science, 19: 808-814 (2010).
2. Zhenfeng Liu, Chris S. Gandhi and Douglas C. Rees. Structure of a tetrameric MscL in an expanded intermediate state. Nature, 461: 120-124 (2009).
3. Zhenfeng Liu and Wenrui Chang. Structure of the light-harvesting complex II. In: Photosynthetic Protein Complexes. Fromme P. ed., 217-242, Wiley-VCH (2008) (Book chapter).
4. Zhenfeng Liu and Wenrui Chang. Crystallization Methods of Membrane Proteins: Practical Aspects of Crystallizing Plant Light-Harvesting Complexes. In: Biophysical Techniques in Photosynthesis II. Aartsma T. J. and Matysik J. eds. Vol 26, 77-96 Spinger (2008) (Book chapter).
5. Hanchi Yan, Pingfeng Zhang, Chao Wang, Zhenfeng Liu and Wenrui Chang. Two lutein molecules in LHCII have different conformations and functions: Insights into the molecular mechanism of thermal dissipation in plants. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 355, 457-463 (2007).
6. Andrew A. Pascal, Zhenfeng Liu, Koen Broess, Bart van Oort, Herbert van Amerongen, Chao Wang, Peter Horton, Bruno Robert, Wenrui Chang and Alexander Ruban. Molecular basis of photoprotection and control of photosynthetic light-harvesting. Nature 436, 134-137 (2005)
7. Zhenfeng Liu, Hanchi Yan, Kebin Wang, Tingyun Kuang, Jiping Zhang, Lulu Gui, Xiaomin An & Wenrui Chang. Crystal structure of spinach major light-harvesting complex at 2.72 ? resolution. Nature 428, 287-292 (2004).
