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2025

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Chemistry

D-Index
81
Citations
23342
World Ranking
3251
National Ranking
74

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Canada Leader Award
  • 2003 - Rutherford Memorial Medal in Chemistry, Royal Society of Canada

Overview

Liang Li is affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong focus on subfields such as Molecular Biology, Spectroscopy, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Physiology, and Epidemiology.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics including metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies, advanced proteomics techniques and applications, gut microbiota and health, diet and metabolism studies, advanced chemical sensor technologies, and analytical chemistry and chromatography.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Microbial metabolites in the marine carbon cycle, 2022, Nature Microbiology
  • Altered Gut Microbial Metabolites in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease: Signals in Host-Microbe Interplay, 2021, Nutrients
  • Chemical derivatization in LC-MS-based metabolomics study, 2020, TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry
  • Toxicity mechanisms of polystyrene microplastics in marine mussels revealed by high-coverage quantitative metabolomics using chemical isotope labeling liquid chromatography mass spectrometry, 2021, Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Evaluating and minimizing batch effects in metabolomics, 2020, Mass Spectrometry Reviews

Liang Li frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Shuang Zhao
  • Adriana Zardini Buzatto
  • Xian Luo
  • Deying Chen
  • Lanjuan Li

The scientist has published multiple articles in venues such as:

  • Analytica Chimica Acta
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Metabolites
  • Journal of Proteome Research
  • Research Square

Liang Li received the Rutherford Memorial Medal in Chemistry from the Royal Society of Canada in 2003.

Best Publications

  • HMDB: The human metabolome database

    David S. Wishart;Dan Tzur;Craig Knox;Roman Eisner

  • Definitions of terms relating to mass spectrometry (IUPAC Recommendations 2013)

    Kermit K. Murray;Robert K. Boyd;Marcos N. Eberlin;G. John Langley

  • Detecting bacteria and determining their susceptibility to antibiotics by stochastic confinement in nanoliter droplets using plug-based microfluidics

    James Q. Boedicker;Liang Li;Timothy R. Kline;Rustem F. Ismagilov

  • Differential 12C-/13C-Isotope Dansylation Labeling and Fast Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry for Absolute and Relative Quantification of the Metabolome

    Kevin Guo;Liang Li

  • The human cerebrospinal fluid metabolome.

    David S. Wishart;David S. Wishart;Michael J. Lewis;Joshua A. Morrissey;Mitchel D. Flegel

  • Detection of high molecular weight narrow polydisperse polymers up to 1.5 million daltons by MALDI mass spectrometry

    David C. Schriemer;Liang Li

  • Nanoliter microfluidic hybrid method for simultaneous screening and optimization validated with crystallization of membrane proteins.

    Liang Li;Debarshi Mustafi;Qiang Fu;Valentina Tereshko

  • Sample normalization methods in quantitative metabolomics.

    Yiman Wu;Liang Li

  • High-resolution matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization in a linear time-of-flight mass spectrometer.

    Randy M. Whittal;Liang. Li

  • Two-layer sample preparation: a method for MALDI-MS analysis of complex peptide and protein mixtures.

    Yuqin Dai;Randy M. Whittal;Liang Li

  • Nuclear factor high-mobility group box1 mediating the activation of Toll-like receptor 4 signaling in hepatocytes in the early stage of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in mice.

    Liang Li;Lei Chen;Liang Hu;Yuan Liu

  • MyCompoundID: using an evidence-based metabolome library for metabolite identification.

    Liang Li;Ronghong Li;Jianjun Zhou;Azeret Zuniga

  • Investigation of spectral reproducibility in direct analysis of bacteria proteins by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry

    Zhengping Wang;Larry Russon;Liang Li;Dennis C. Roser

  • High-Performance Isotope Labeling for Profiling Carboxylic Acid-Containing Metabolites in Biofluids by Mass Spectrometry

    Kevin Guo;Liang Li

  • Mass Discrimination in the Analysis of Polydisperse Polymers by MALDI Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry. 1. Sample Preparation and Desorption/Ionization Issues

    David C. Schriemer and;Liang Li

  • Confocal Fluorescence Microscopic Imaging for Investigating the Analyte Distribution in MALDI Matrices.

    Yuqin Dai;Randy M. Whittal;Liang Li

  • The protective role of hydrogen-rich saline in experimental liver injury in mice

    HanYong Sun;Lei Chen;WeiPing Zhou;Liang Hu

  • Mass discrimination in the analysis of polydisperse polymers by MALDI time-of-flight mass spectrometry. 2. Instrumental issues

    David C. Schriemer and;Liang Li

  • Protein Crystallization Using Microfluidic Technologies Based on Valves, Droplets, and SlipChip

    Liang Li;Rustem F. Ismagilov

  • Stable-Isotope Dimethylation Labeling Combined with LC−ESI MS for Quantification of Amine-Containing Metabolites in Biological Samples

    Kevin Guo;Chengjie Ji;Liang Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Hongyang Wang
Hongyang Wang Second Military Medical University
Rustem F. Ismagilov
Rustem F. Ismagilov California Institute of Technology
Lanjuan Li
Lanjuan Li Zhejiang University
Meng-Chao Wu
Meng-Chao Wu Second Military Medical University
David M. Lubman
David M. Lubman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
David S. Wishart
David S. Wishart University of Alberta
Raymond Lai
Raymond Lai University of Alberta
Roger A. Dixon
Roger A. Dixon University of Alberta
Michael Weinfeld
Michael Weinfeld University of Alberta
Ashok Agarwal
Ashok Agarwal Cleveland Clinic

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