Dr. Liang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the Emory University School of Medicine and is the Co-Scientific Director of the Robert P. Apkarian Integrated Electron Microscopy Core (IEMC) at Emory University. Dr. Liang achieved dual bachelor’s degrees in Biology and Computer Science at the University of Science and Technology of China and a Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics at Florida State University. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and Microbiology and Immunobiology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Liang’s primary scholarly focus is visualizing viral RNA synthesis mechanisms with cryo-EM and X-ray crystallography.