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Research Interests
- Ecology, mathematical
biology, network science
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Education
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1998
- 2002
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PhD,Biological Sciences,
Imperial College London, U.K
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Professional Experience
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2003 - 2005
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Postdoc, Epigroup,
Centre for Tropical veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh
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2005
- 2007
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Academia
Sinica Postdoc
Fellow, Institute of Biomedical sciences, Academia Sinica
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2007
– 2015
2015-present
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Assistant
Research Fellow, Institute of Statistical Sciences, Academia Sinica
Associate
Research Fellow, Institute of Statistical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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Publications
Sait S.M., Liu W.C., Thompson D.J., Godfray
H.C. and Begon M. 2000. Invasion sequence affects
predator-prey dynamics in a multi-species interaction. Nature 405, 448-450.
Jordan
F., Liu, W.C. and van Veen F.J.F. 2003
Quantifying the importance of species and their interactions in a
host-parasitoid community. Community Ecology 4, 79-88.
Davis
A.J., Liu W.C., Perner J. and Voigt W. 2004.
Reliability characteristics of natural functional group interaction webs.
Evolutionary Ecology Research 6, 1145-1166.
Liu,
W.C., Jenkins C., Shaw D.J., Matthews L, Pearce M.C., Low J.C., Gunn G.J.,
Smith H.R., Frankel G. and Woolhouse M.E.J. 2005.
Modelling the epidemiology of Verocytotoxin-producing
Escherichia coli serogroups in young calves.
Epidemiology and Infection. 133, 449-458.
Odiit M., Coleman P.G., Liu W.C., McDermott J.J., Fevre E.M., Welburn S.C. and Woolhouse M.E.J. 2005. Quantifying the level of
under-detection of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense sleeping
sickness cases. Tropical Medicine & International Health. 10, 840-849.
Jordan
F., Liu W.C. and Wyatt T. 2005. Topological Constraints on the dynamics of
wasp-waist ecosystems. Journal of Marine Systems. 57, 250-263
Woolhouse M.E.J., Shaw D.J., Matthews L., Liu
W.C., Thomas M. and Mellor D.J. 2005. Epidemiological implications of the
contact network structure for cattle farms and the 20-80 rule. Biological
letters. 1, 350-352.
Jordan
F., Liu W.C. and Davis A.J. 2006. Topological keystone species: measures of
positional importance in food webs. OIKOS. 112, 535-546.
Liu
W.C., Shaw D.J., Matthews L., Hoyle D.V., Pearce M.C., Yates C.M., Low
J.C., Amyes S.G.B., Gunn G.J. and Woolhouse M.E.J. 2007. Modelling
the epidemiology and characteristic of Verocytotoxin
producing Escherichia coli serogroups O26 and
O103 in two different calf cohorts. Epidemiology and Infection. 135:1316‐1323.
Liu
W.C., Bonsall M.B. and Godfray
H.C.J. 2007. The form of host density-dependence and the likelihood of
host-pathogen cycles in forest-insect systems. Theoretical Population
Biology. 72, 86-95.
Liu
W.C., Matthews L., Chase-Topping M., Savill N.J.,
Shaw D.J. and Woolhouse M.E.J. 2007. Metapopulation dynamics of Escherichia coli O157 in
cattle: an exploratory model. Journal of Royal Society Interface. In press.
Liu
W.C., Lin W.H., Davis A.J., Jordan F., Yang H.T. and Hwang, M.J. 2007. A
network perspective on the topological importance of enzymes and their phylogenetic conservation. BMC Bioinformatics. 8:121.
Xie, Z.R., Yang, H.T., Liu W.C. and Hwang M.J. 2007. The role of microRNA in the delayed negative feedback regulation of
gene expression. BBRC 358, 722-726.
Chen,
H.W., Liu, W.C., Davis, A.J., Jordan, F., Hwang, M.J. and Shao, K.T. 2008. Network position of hosts in food webs
and their parasite diversity. OIKOS 117, 1847-1855.
Jordán, F., Liu, W.C. and
Mike, Á. 2009. Trophic field overlap: A new approach to quantify keystone
species. Ecological Modelling. In press.
Lin, W.H.,
Liu, W.C. and Hwang, M.J. 2009. Topological and organizational properties
of the products of house-keeping and tissue-specific genes in
protein-protein interaction networks. BMC Systems Biology 3:32.
Liu, W.C.,
Chen, H. W., Jordán F, Lin W.H. and Liu W.J.
2010. Quantifying the interaction structure and the topological importance
of species in food webs: a signed digraph approach. Journal of Theoretical
Biology, 267:355-362.
Chen HW, Shao KT, Liu CW, Lin WH, Liu WC*. 2011. The reduction
of food web robustness by parasitism: fact and artefact.
International Journal for Parasitology.
41:627-34. *Corresponding author.
P. Nguyen, W.
Liu, F. Jordan. 2011. Inferring pleiotropy by
network analysis: linked diseases in the human PPI network,BMC Systems Biology,5:179.
F. Jordan, P.
Nguyen, W. Liu. 2012. Studying protein-protein interaction networks: a
systems view on diseases. Briefing in Functional Genomics. 11:497-504.
Liu et al.
2012. A fish tank model for assembling food webs. Ecological Modelling. 245:166-175.
Lai S.M., Liu
W.C., Jordan F. 2012. On the centrality and uniqueness of species from the
network perspective. 8:570-573.
Phoa F.K.H. and Liu W.C.
2013. High-quality winners take more: modeling non-scale-free bulletin
forums with content variations. Journal of data science. 11: 559-573.
Chiang A.W.,
Liu W.C., Charusanti P. and Hwang M.J. 2014
Understanding system dynamics of an adaptive enzyme network from globally
profiled kinetic parameters. BMC Systems Biology. 8:4. doi:
10.1186/1752-0509-8-4.
Hung C.M., Shaner P.J.L., Zink R.M., Liu W.C., Chu T.C., Huang
W.S., Li S.H. 2014. Drastic population fluctuations explain the rapid
extinction of the passenger pigeon. PNAS. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1401526111.
Lai, S.M., Liu
W.C., Jordan F.. 2015. A trophic overlap-based
measure for species uniqueness in ecological networks, Ecological Modelling, 299:95-101.
Tsai K.N., Lin
S.H. Liu W.C. and Wang D. 2015. Inferring microbial interaction network from
microbiome data using RMN algorithm. BMC Systems
Biology 9:54.DOI 10.1186/s12918-015-0199-2
Cheng S.L.,
Lin W.H., Phoa F.K.H., Hwang J.S. and Liu W.C.
2015. Analysing the unequal effects of positive
and negative information on the behaviour of
users of a Taiwanese on-line bulletin board. PLOS ONE |
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0137842.
Chan W.P.,
Chen, I.C., Colwell R.K., Liu W.C., Huang C.Y. and Shen
S.F. 2016. Seasonal and daily climate variation have
opposite effects on species elevational range
size. Science, 351:1437-1439.DOI: 10.1126/science.aab4119
Jordán F., Sciarpetti G., Liu W.-C., 2016. Carbon flows and
interaction strength in aquatic food web models. Life and environment, 66:
325-331.
Liu W.C., Lai
S.M., Chen H.W. 2017. A topological similarity-based bootstrapping method
for inferring food web parameters. Ecological Research. DOI
10.1007/s11284-017-1519-3
Chan W.P., Chen I.C., Colwell R.K., Liu W.C., Huang C.Y., Shen S.F. 2018. Response to Qian et al. (2017): Daily and seasonal climate variations are both critical in the evolution of species’ elevational range size. Journal of Biogeography, 45:2832-2836.
Jordán F., Endrédi A., Liu W.-C., D'Alelio D. 2018. Aggregating a plankton food web: mathematical versus biological approaches. Mathematics, 6: 336.
Liu M., Rubenstein D.R., Liu W.C., Shen S.F. 2019. A continuum of biological adaptations to environmental fluctuation. Proc Biol Sci. 286(1912):20191623. doi:10.1098/rspb.2019.1623.
Liu W.C., Huang L.C., Liu C.W.J., Jordán F. 2020. A simple approach for quantifying node centrality in signed and directed social networks. Applied Network Science 5:46.
Liu C.W.J., Liu W.C., Shen S.F. 2021. On the evolution of social ties as an instrumental tool for resource competition in resource patch networks. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 8:78.
Lai S.M., Liu W.C., Chen H.W. 2021. Exploring trophic role similarity and phylogenetic relatedness between species in food webs. Community Ecology 22: 427-440.
Lin W.H., Liu W.C. 2021. Revisiting a trophic overlap-based measure for species uniqueness in ecological networks. Community Ecology 22: 453-458.
Liu W.C., Chen H.W. 2022. Idea Paper: Trophic transmission as a potential mechanism underlying the distribution of parasite diversity in food webs. Ecological Research 37: 485-489.
Lin W.H., Lai S.M., Davis A.J., Liu W.C., Jordán F. 2022. A network-based measure of functional diversity in food webs. Biology Letters 18: 20220183.
Lin W.H., Liu W.C. 2024. Revisiting functional diversity from a network perspective: regular equivalence-based approach. Community Ecology 25: 103-112.
Lin W.H., Davis A.J., Jordán F., Liu W.C. 2024. Applying network analysis to measure functional diversity in food webs. Food Webs 38: e00336.
Lai S.M., Yen T.J., Chang M.Y., Fu Y.C., Liu W.C. 2024. Predicting network members from partial contact records on social media: A machine learning approach. Social Networks 80: 10-24.
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