Dr. Liu received his undergraduate degree from MIT and his M.D. and Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology from UCLA School of Medicine. His Ph.D. research was published in top scientific journals including Science and Nature and has been patented. He completed internal medicine training at the University of Washington in Seattle and infectious diseases research and training at Stanford University. In addition to his clinical work, he continues to carry out infectious diseases and biodefense research at both UCLA and California Institute of Technology (CalTech).

CERTIFICATION : National Medical Board Examinations, May 2003 American Board of Internal Medicine Diplomate in Internal Medicine, August 2005 American Board of Internal Medicine Diplomate in Infectious Diseases, October 2007

EDUCATION & TRAINING:

• Bachelor of Science in Biology. Minor in Political Science, with emphasis on public policy. Also completed course requirements toward the Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Engineering. - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• M.D. and Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology - UCLA School of Medicine
• Intern and resident in internal medicine - University of Washington School of Medicine
• Fellow in infectious diseases - Stanford University School of Medicine & Stanford Hospital and Clinics
• Postdoctoral fellow in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics - David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

• Visiting Research Associate in Division of Biology - California Institute of Technology
• Attending Physician (Volunteer), Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine - VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
• Researcher (50% time) at Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics. - David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

• Medical Staff, Brotman Medical Center, Culver City, CA October 2006 - Present
• Medical Staff, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA January 2007 - Present
• Medical Staff, Olympia Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA February 2009 - Present
• Medical Staff, Kindred Hospital - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA February 2009 - Present
• Currently in part-time private internal medicine and infectious diseases practice based out of the above four hospitals and two office locations (in Beverly Hills and West Los Angeles).

• American Society for Microbiology Sustaining Member Student Travel Grant: May 1997.
• First Place, Doctoral Category, American Society for Microbiology Southern California Branch Poster/Travel Grant Competition: November 1997
• American Lung Association California Branch Research Training Fellowship: July 1998 - June 1999
• American Society for Microbiology Conference Travel Grant: April 1999
• Richard and Mary Finkelstein Student Travel Grant Award, American Society for Microbiology: June 2000
• Edith and Carl Lasky Memorial Award (for outstanding research accomplishments during medical training), UCLA School of Medicine: May 2002
• Finalist, Life Science Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship: March 2006
• Joint Meeting Committee Award, 2008 ICAAC/IDSA Joint Meeting: October 2008

• Crick, Francis. (1997). Translator. Minghsun Liu. The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul - Chinese Edition. Taipei, Taiwan, Commonwealth Publishing Co. Ltd.
• Liu, M. (2003). Plasmid-based reporter gene vectors: colorimetric assays for -galactosidase and alkaline phosphatase activities. In E. coli Plasmid Vectors: Methods and Applications. Preston, A. and Casali, N. (eds). Totowa, N.J., Humana Press.
• Liu, M. (2009). Bugs and Drugs - Perioperative antibiotics. In Practical guide to the care of surgical patients. Nguyen, T. and Abilez O. (eds). Philadelphia, PA., Mosby Inc.

• Liu, M., Gonzalez, J.E., Willis, L.B., and Walker, G.C. (1998). A novel screen for exopolysaccharide deficient mutants. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 64(11):4600-4602.
• Liu, M., Deora, R., Doulatov, S.R., Gingery, M., Eiserling, F.A., Preston, A., Maskell, D.J., Simons, R.W., Cotter, P.A., Parkhill, J., Miller, J.F. (2002) Reverse transcriptase-mediated diversity generation in host-parasite interactions: tropism switching by Bordetella bacteriophage. Science. 295(5562):2091-4.
• Huang, T. J.*, Liu, M.*, Knight, L.D., Grody, W.W., Miller, J.F., Ho, C.-M. (2002). An electrochemical detection scheme for identifications of single-nucleotide polymorphism using hairpin-forming probes. Nucleic Acid Research. 30(12):e55. *Co-first authors.
• Liu, M., Gingery, M., Doulatove, S.R., Liu, Y., Hodes, A., Baker, S., Davis, P., Simmonds, M., Churcher, C., Mungall, K., Quail, M.A., Preston, A., Harvill, E.T., Maskell, D.J., Eiserling, F.A., Parkhill, J., Miller, J.F. (2004). Genomic and genetic analysis of Bordetella bacteriophages encoding reverse transcriptase-mediated tropism-switching cassettes. Journal of Bacteriology. 186(5):1503-1517.
• Doulatov, S., Hodes, A., Dai, L., Mandhana, N., Liu, M., Deora, R., Simons, R.W., Zimmerly, S., Miller, J.F. (2004). Tropism switching in Bordetella bacteriophage defines a family of diversity-generating retroelements. Nature. 431(7007):476-481.
• Liu, M., Holodniy, M., Zolopa, A.R., Shafer, R.W. (2006). Case files from Stanford University Medical Center: The initial presentation of HIV-1 infection - Where public and personal health meet. Medscape General Medicine. 8(1):24.

• Gonzalez, J.E., York, G.M., Liu, M., Cheng. H.-P., and Walker G.C. An acidic exopolysaccharide is required for nodule invasion by Rhizobium meliloti. Seventh International Symposium on Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. University of Edinburgh, Scotland. June 1994.
• Liu, M. and Miller, J.F. Genetic and molecular analysis of genes regulated by the BvgAS system of Bordetella using transposon mutagenesis and generalized transduction. American Society for Microbiology Southern California Branch 60th Annual Meeting, Student Colloquium. San Diego, California. November 1996.
• Liu, M. and Miller, J.F. Isolation and characterization of Bordetella bacteriophage that mediate generalized transduction and have specific tropism for Bvg+ or Bvg- phase bacteria. American Society for Microbiology 97th General Meeting. Miami Beach, Florida. May 1997.
• Liu, M., Harvill, E.T., and Miller, J.F. Characterization of Bordetella bacteriophage that have specific tropism for Bvg+ or Bvg- phase bacteria. American Society for Microbiology Southern California Branch 61st Annual Meeting, Student Colloquium. Irvine, California. November 1997.
• Liu, M., Cotter, P.A., and Miller, J. F. The BvgAS System Appears to Regulate Alternative Cytochrome Oxidases in Bordetellae spp.. American Society for Microbiology 98th General Meeting. Atlanta, Georgia. May 1998.
• Fujiyama, D.Y., Liu, M., Cotter, P.A., and Miller, J. F. JC100 CO2 Requirement maps to region(s) besides its BvgAS locus. American Society for Microbiology Southern California Branch 62nd Annual Meeting, Student Colloquium. Irvine, California. November 1998.
• Liu, M., Fujiyama, D.Y., Miller, J.F. Characterization of a B. bronchiseptica isolate that requires 5% CO2 for expression of the Bvg+ phase. American Society for Microbiology Conference - A Cell Biology Approach to Microbial Pathogenesis. Portland, Oregon. April 1999.
• Liu, M., Gingery, M., Eiserling, F.A., and Miller, J.F. Molecular analysis of Bordetella bacteriophage that have specific tropism for Bvg+ or Bvg- phase Bordetella. American Society for Microbiology 99th General Meeting. Chicago, Illinois. May 1999.
• Riley, T.M., Liu, M., Gau, J.-J., Ho, C.-M., Miller, J.F. Development of bacterial detection protocols for use in a hand-held pathogen detection device. American Society for Microbiology Southern California Branch 63rd Annual Meeting, Student Colloquium. Irvine, California. November 1999.
• Liu, M., Parkhill, J., Baker, S., Davis, P., Simmonds, M., Preston, A., Maskell, D., Cotter, P.A., Miller, J.F. Analysis of a family of related Bordetella bacteriophage. American Society for Microbiology 100th General Meeting. Los Angeles, California. May 2000.
• Preston, A., Toland, E., Liu, M., Homans, S.W., Miller, J.F., Maskell, D.J. Bvg-mediated modification of Bordetella bronchiseptica LPS. American Society for Microbiology 100th General Meeting. Los Angeles, California. May 2000.
• Doulatov, S., Liu, M., Fujiyama, D.Y., Cotter, P.A., Miller, J.F. Characterization of JC100, a Bordetella bronchiseptica isolate that requires elevated [CO2] for expression of the Bvg+ phase. American Society for Microbiology Southern California Branch 64th Annual Meeting, Student Colloquium. San Diego. California. November 2000.
• Liu, M., Deora, R.K., Doulatov, S., Gingery, M., Parkhill, J., Preston, A., Maskell, D., Cotter, P.A., Eiserling, F.A., Miller, J.F. Reverse transcriptase-mediated diversity generation in host-parasite interactions: tropism switching by Bordetella bacteriophage. Gordon Research Conferences - Microbial Population Biology. Williamstown, Massachusetts. August 2001.
• Huang, T. J., Liu, M., Knight, L.D., Grody, W.W., Miller, J. F., Ho, C.-M. Electrochemical Detection of Mismatch in Nucleic Acids (EDEMNA), the First Southern California Biomedical Engineering Symposium, Los Angeles, California, January 2002.
• Doulatov, S., Liu, M., Miller, J.F. Reverse transcriptase-mediated diversity in host-parasite interactions: tropism switching by Bordetella bacteriophage. American Society for Microbiology 102nd Genearl Meeting. Salt Lake City, Utah. May 2002.
• Huang, T. J., Liu, M., Miller, J. F., Ho, C.-M. The development of electrochemical based hairpin-forming probes for identifications of single-nucleotide polymorphisms: detection and hairpin-forming probes. Nanoscale/Molecular electronics. Maui, Hawaii. May 2002.
• Huang, T. J., Liu, M., Knight, L.D., Grody, W.W., Miller, J. F., Ho, C.-M. An Electrochemical Method to Detect Single Basepair Mutation, California NanoSystem Institute Poster Day 2002, Los Angeles, California, September 2002.
• Roxby, A., Liu, M., Eckburg, P. Relapsing Fever in a Patient with Indolent Lymphoma. American College of Physicians Annual Session, San Francisco, California, April 2005.
• Milisavljevic, V., Ng, N.Y., Liu, M., and Miller, J.F. Transcriptional Responses of S. epidermidis to Benzyl Alcohol. Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting. Honolulu, Hawaii, May 3-6, 2008.
• Liu, M., Moghadam, S., Cummings, C.A., Doulatov, S., Fujiyama, D., Jani, A., Pineda, E., Cherry, J.D., Forsyth, M., Schroeder, I., Cotter, P.A., Miller, J.F. Characterization of Bordetella bronchiseptica strains requiring elevated CO2 levels for induction of Bvg+ phase genes. American Society for Microbiology 108th General Meeting. Boston, Massachusetts. June 2008.
• French, C.T., Liu, M., Panina, E.M., Miller, J.F. Type III secretion effectors of Burkholderia pseudomallei. American Society for Microbiology 108th General Meeting. Boston, Massachusetts. June 2008.
• Ng, N., Liu, M., Milisavljevic, V., Gene Expression in ica (+) Clinical S. epidermidis Strains with Distinct Biofilm Phenotypes. American Society for Microbiology 108th General Meeting. Boston, Massachusetts. June 2008.
• French, C.T., Huang, L., Ching, J., Wong, W., Moghadam, S., Liu, M., Miller, J.F., Comparative analysis of Type III secretion in B. pseudomallei and B. oklahomensis. American Society for Microbiology 109th General Meeting. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. May 2009.
• Huang, L., Moghadam, S., Liu, M. Identification and analysis of viral sequences in RNA-Seq data sets. American Society for Microbiology 109th General Meeting. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. May 2009.
• Tetreault, N.A., Williams, B.J., Hasenstaub, A., Hakeem, A.Y., Liu, M., Abelin, A.C.T., Wold, B.J., Allman, J.M. RNA-Seq studies of gene expression in fronto-insular (FI) cortex in autistic and control subjects reveal gene networks related to inflammation and synaptic function. Neuroscience 2009 (Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting). Chicago, Illinois. October 2009.