Mengling Liu Ph.D. 

Assistant Professor of Biostatistics

Education

2000 B. S.	Statistics and Probability	NanKai University, Tianjin, P. R. China
2002 M. A.	Statistics	Columbia University, New York, NY
2004 Ph. D.	Statistics	Columbia University, New York, NY

Research interests

Survival Analysis, Longitudinal Data Analysis, Semiparametric Inference, Statistical Genetics and Clinical Trials.

Teaching

• G48.2306 Elements of Applied Statistics and Data Mining: with Applications to BIology and Meidicine, (Spring 2009) [Blackboard].
• G48. 2304 Advanced Topics in Biostatistics, (Spring 2006)
• G48. 2332 Applied Longitudinal Analysis, (Spring 2006)
• G48.2303/G23.2303 Introduction to Biostatistics, (Fall 2005, 2007)
• Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Preventive Medicine, 2nd year medical students (Fall 2004)

Publications

• Su-Yi Tseng, Mengling Liu, and Michael L. Dustin (2005). CD80 Cytoplasmic Domain Controls Localization of CD28, CTLA-4 and PKC-Θ in the Immunological Synapse. The Journal of Immunology, 175:7829-7836.
• Zhezhen Jin, Mengling Liu, Steven Albert and Zhiliang Ying (2006). Analysis of Longitudinal Health-Related Quality of Life Data with Terminal Events. Lifetime Data Analysis, 12:169-190.
• Mengling Liu, Wenbin Lu and Yongzhao Shao (2006). Interval Mapping of Quantitative Trait Loci for Time-To-Event Data with the Proportional Hazards Mixture Cure Model. Biometrics, 62:1053-1061.
• Ellen Conner, Rebecca Margulies, and Mengling Liu et al. (2006). Vaginal Delivery and Serum Markers of Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 94:96-102.
• Mengling Liu, Wenbin Lu and Yongzhao Shao (2006). Mixture Cure Model with an Application to Interval Mapping of Quantitative Trait Loci. Lifetime Data Analysis, 12:421-440.
• William M. Huang, David E. Seubert, James G. Donnelly, Mengling Liu and Norman B. Javitt (2007). Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy: Detection with Urinary Bile Acid Assays. Journal of Perinatal Medicine, 35:486-491.
• Mengling Liu and Zhiliang Ying (2007). Joint Analysis of Longitudinal Data with Informative Right-Censoring. Biometrics, 63:363-371.
• Mengling Liu and Yongzhao Shao (2008). Repeated Measures Analysis. Encyclopedia of Quantitative Risk Assessment, Vol 4, John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
• Sara S. Morelli, Debbra A. Keegan, Lewis C. Krey, Joseph Katz, Mengling Liu, and Nicole Noyes (2008). Early Serum Interleukin-8 Evaluation May Prove Useful in Localizing Abnormally Implanted Human Gestations After in Vitro Fertilization. Fertility and Sterility, In Press.
• Alan A. Arslan, Yian Gu, Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Karen L. Koenig, Mengling Liu, Lyudmila Velikokhatnaya, Roy E. Shore, Paolo Toniolo, Faina Linkov, and Anna E. Lokshin (2008). Reproducibility of Serum Pituitary Hormones in Women. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, 17(8):1880-1883.
• Mengling Liu, Wenbin Lu and Yongzhao Shao (2008). A Monte Carlo Approach for Change-Point Detection in the Cox Proportional Hazards Model. Statistics in Medicine, 27:3894-3909. [R-program]
• David Zagzag, Mine Esencay, Olga Mendez, Herman Yee, Iva Smirnova, Helen Huang, Eugene Lukyanov, Lily Lan, Mengling Liu, and Elizabeth W. Newcomb (2008). Hypoxia- and VEGF-Induced SDF-1{alpha}/CXCR4 Expression in Glioblastomas: a Potential Resolution of Scherer’s Enigma. American Journal of Pathology, 173(2):545-60.
• Su-Yi Tseng, Janelle C. Waite, Mengling Liu, Santosha Vardhana and Michael L. Dustin (2008). T Cell-Dendritic Cell Immunological Synapses Contain Multiple TCR Dependent CD28-CD80 Clusters That Recruit Protein Kinase Cθ. The Journal of Immunology, 181: 4852-4863.
• Oren Milstein, Su-Yi Tseng, Toby Starr, Jaime Llodra, Andrea Nans, Mengling Liu, Martin K. Wild, P. Anton van der Merwe, David L. Stokes, Yair Reisner and Michael L. Dustin (2008). Nanoscale Increases in CD2-CD48 Mediated Intermembrane Spacing Decrease Adhesion and Reorganize the Immunological Synapse. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 283:34414-34422.
• Yian Gu, Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Faina Linkov, Karen L. Koenig, Mengling Liu, Lyudmila Velikokhatnaya, Roy E. Shore, Adele Marrangoni, Paolo Toniolo, Anna E. Lokshin, and Alan A. Arslan (2009). Reproducibility of serum cytokines and growth factors. Cytokine, 45:44-49.
• Joan Reibman, Mengling Liu, Qinyi Cheng, Sybille Liautaud, Linda Rogers, Stephanie Lau, Kenneth I. Berger, Roberta M. Goldring, Michael Marmor, Maria Elena Fernandez-Beros, Emily S. Tonorezos, Caralee E. Caplan-Shaw, Jaime Gonzalez, William N. Rom, Joshua Filner, Dawn Walter, and Kymara Kyng (2009). Characteristics of a Residential and Working Community with Diverse Exposure to World Trade Center Dust, Gas and Fumes. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 51(5) 534-541.
• Mengling Liu, Wenbin Lu and Chi-hong Tseng (2009). Cox regression in Nested Case-Control studies with Auxiliary Covariates. Biometrics, In press.[Supplementary Web Material]
• Faina Linkov, Yian Gu, Alan A Arslan, Mengling Liu, Roy E Shore, Lyudmila Velikokhatnaya, Karen L Koenig, Paolo Toniolo, Adele Marrangoni, Zoya Yurkovetsky, Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Anna E Lokshin (2009). Reliability of tumor markers, chemokines, and metastasis-related molecules in serum European cytokine network, 20: 21-26.
• Chi-hong Tseng and Mengling Liu (2009). Joint Modeling of Survival Data and Longitudinal Measurements under Nested Case-Control Sampling. Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research, Accepted.

Preprints and Other Collaborative Works