中南大学生命科学学院生物化学与分子生物学系、分子生物学研究中心副教授。浙江大学生物化学与分子生物学博士（2005年）。纽约血液中心红细胞生理实验室访问学者（2012年）

主要从事基因结构与功能的研究。开展了人类与小鼠红细胞发育的基因表达分析，不同发育阶段转录组信号通路及基因功能聚类分析，人类与小鼠基因表达差异的比较分析，模式生物基因家族的进化分析等研究。从事茶与健康研究，主持完成湖南省科技计划项目一项。主要研究方向：基因表达谱的生物信息学分析，比较基因组与分子进化。

代表性论文：

1.Hao Xiu, Mohammed Nuruzzaman, Xiangqian Guo, Hongzhe Cao, Jingjia Huang, Xianghui  Chen, Kunlu Wu, Ru Zhang, Yuzhao Huang, Junli Luo, and Zhiyong Luo*.Molecular Cloning and  Expression Analysis of Eight PgWRKY GenesinPanax ginseng Responsive to Salt and Hormones.   Int J Mol Sci. 2016 Mar; 17(3): 319.

2.Zhiwei Sun, Ye Wang, Xu Han, Xielan Zhao, Yuanliang Peng, Yusheng Li, Minyuan Peng, Jianhui Song, Kunlu Wu, Shumin Sun, Weihua Zhou, Biwei Qi, Chufan Zhou, Huiyong Chen*, Xiuli An*, Jing Liu*. miR-150 inhibits terminal erythroid proliferation and differentiation.Oncotarget. 2015 Dec 15;6(40):43033-47. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.5824.

3.Jieying Zhang, Kunlu Wu, Xiaojuan Xiao, Jiling Liao, Qikang Hu, Huiyong Chen,Jing Liu,* and Xiuli An. Autophagy as a Regulatory Component of Erythropoiesis. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2015, 16, 4083-4094

4.Hongzhe Cao, Mohammed Nuruzzaman, Hao Xiu, Jingjia Huang, Kunlu Wu, Xianghui Chen,Jijia Li, Li Wang, Ji-Hak Jeong, Sun-Jin Park, Fang Yang, Junli Luo and Zhiyong Luo *. Transcriptome Analysis of Methyl Jasmonate-Elicited Panax ginseng Adventitious Roots to Discover Putative Ginsenoside Biosynthesis and Transport Genes. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2015, 16, 3035-3057

5.Xiuli An, Vincent P. Schulz,Jie Li, Kunlu Wu, Jing Liu, Fumin Xue, Jingping Hu, Narla Mohandas and Patrick G. Gallagher*. Global Transcriptome Analyses of Human and Murine Terminal Erythroid Differentiation. Blood, 2014，123(22):3466-77

6.Li, X., Cai, J.F*., Guo, Y.D., Wu, K.L., Wang, J.F., Liu, Q.L., Wang, X.H., Chang, Y.F., Yang, L., Lan, L.M., Zhong, M., Wang, X., Song, C., Liu, Y., Li, J.B. and Dai, Z.H. The availability of 16S rRNA for the identification of forensically important flies (Diptera: Muscidae) in China.   Tropical Biomedicine，2010，27(2): 155-166  

7.Wang Xinghua, Cai Jifeng*, Guo Yadong, Chang Yunfeng, Wu Kunlu, Liu Qinlai,Wang Jiangfeng, Yang Li, Lan Lingmei, Zhong Ming, Wang Xiang, Cheng Yuansong,Liu Yuan, Chen Yaoqing, Li Jianbo, Zhang Jinguo, Xin Peng. The availability of 16SrDNA gene for identifying forensically important blowflies in China . ROMANIAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL MEDICINE, 2010,18(1): 43-50