Nora Liu

Dr Nora Liu

Postdoctoral Researcher

School of Biomedicine

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Dr Nora (Wenjun) Liu obtained a double undergraduate degree in teaching and science, majoring in Genetics and minoring in Statistics, from the University of Adelaide in 2019. Her passion for unravelling the complexities of biological data using statistical knowledge led her to pursue a Master of Philosophy at the University of Adelaide in 2020. After 1.5 years in the MPhil program, she demonstrated satisfying research progress that allowed her to upgrade to a PhD, where she further developed her skills as a bioinformatician.

During her PhD journey at the Dame Roma Mitchell Cancer Research Laboratories, Nora focused on developing novel analytical pipelines to decipher complex transcriptomic data, addressing significant biological questions across diverse medical research areas, such as neurodegeneration, breast and ovarian cancer. Notably, Nora's contributions extended to the development of an R/Bioconductor package sSNAPPY for novel single-sample pathway perturbation analysis that is now publically available.

In addition to her research project, Nora has extensive teaching experience. She tutored multiple undergraduate courses covering algebra, calculus, statistics in R, and data science using Python, as well as introductory bioinformatics during her PhD.

After she finished her PhD in 2023, Nora joined the Adelaide Centre of Epigenetics as a post-doctoral researcher in Professor Jose Polo’s group. In this role, she will be applying bioinformatics approaches to unravel the intricacies of cancer epigenetics.

  • Journals
    Year Citation
    2022 Casey, A., Liu, W., Hein, L., Sargeant, T., Pederson, S., & Mäkinen, V. -P. (2022). Transcriptional targets of senataxin and E2 promoter binding factors are associated with neuro-degenerative pathways during increased autophagic flux.
    DOI
    - Liu, W., Mäkinen, V. -P., Tilley, W. D., & Pederson, S. M. (n.d.). sSNAPPY: an R/Bioconductor package for single-sample directional pathway perturbation analysis. F1000Research, 13, 628.
    DOI

  • Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2024 Co-Supervisor How pluripotent transcription factors reshape the prostate cancer epigenetic landscape to reprogram the cell fate toward neuroendocrine-like with their cofactors Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Tianjun Zhang

  • Other Supervision Activities
    Date Role Research Topic Location Program Supervision Type Student Load Student Name
    2024 - ongoing Co-Supervisor How pluripotent transcription factors contribute the neuroendocrine-like reprogramming in prostate cancer South Australian Immunogenomics Cancer Institute - Doctorate Full Time Tianjun (Percy) Zhang
  • Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Phone: 83139884
  • Email: nora.liu@adelaide.edu.au
  • Campus: West End Health Precinct
  • Building: AHMS - Adelaide Health and Medical Sciences, floor Sixth Floor
  • Org Unit: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
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