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Basics
| Name | Tuo Liu |
| Label | Scientist |
| tuoooliu@arizona.edu | |
| Phone | (626) 764-5802 |
| Url | https://tuoooliu666.github.io |
| Summary | An Environmental Health researcher, trained to exploring health problems using Omics techniques |
Work
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2022.08 - 2025.05 Research Associate
Department of Community, Environment & Policy, University of Arizona
Evaluating metabolic changes after fire exposure in firefighters with FFCCS using Metabolomics; Studying Long COVID in frontline and essential workers with AZHEROES.
- Metabolomics
- Proteomics
- FFCCS
- AZHEROES
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2021.08 - 2022.07 Research Assistant
Department of Community, Environment & Policy, University of Arizona
Developing analytical pipeline for metabolomics with FFCCS.
- Metabolomics
- FFCCS
Volunteer
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2023.08 - 2024.08 Tucson, US
Volunteer/Graduate Orientation
Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
Reception for incoming graduate students.
- Orientation
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2019.10 - 2019.10 Ann Arbor, US
Volunteer/Collectors
Huron River Watershed Council
Training on water quality indicator & sampling.
- River Roundup
Education
Awards
- 2023.03.01
One Health Research Fellowship
One Health Initiative at UofArizona
With new state funding, the One Health Initiative at the University of Arizona Health Sciences now offers several funding opportunities for students and researchers. Under the leadership of Frank von Hippel, professor in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, the One Health Research Initiative works to build interdisciplinary research projects and expertise in One Health topics across the university. These new funding opportunities will help build our leadership in One Health research.'
- 2021.05.01
College of Public Health Scholarship
Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
Certificates
| Deep Learning | ||
| Coursera | 2024-08-01 |
| IBM Data Science Professional Certificate | ||
| Coursera | 2020-04-01 |
Publications
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2025.01.01 Differential metabolic profiles by Hispanic ethnicity among male Tucson firefighters
Metabolomics
We compared metabolic profiles in male firefighters by Hispanic ethnicity and evaluated the association between the changes by ethnicity and fire exposure.
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2023.11.27 Evaluating changes in firefighter urinary metabolomes after structural fires: an untargeted, high resolution approach
Scientific Reports
It profiled urinary metabolic signatures in firefighters, before and after fire exposures, to identify metabolic effects of fire exposure in this understudied occupation that experiences high cancer incidence rates.
Skills
| Statistics | |
| Multi-level analysis | |
| Categorical data analysis | |
| High-dimensional data analysis | |
| Experimental design & analysis | |
| Statistical learning | |
| Deep learning |
Languages
| Mandarin | |
| Native speaker |
| English | |
| Fluent |
Interests
| Omics | |
| Metabolomics | |
| Proteomics | |
| Genomics | |
| Epigenomics | |
| Fishing | |
| Weightlifting |
References
| Professor Melissa Furlong | |
| Dr. Furlong is an environmental epidemiologist who studies the chronic health effects of environmental contaminants, with an emphasis on pesticides and neurological outcomes. Dr. Furlong's primary research interests include developing and implementing novel approaches in big data to investigate associations between environmental contaminants and longitudinal chronic health outcomes, particularly neurological health. She uses a variety of methodological approaches to achieve these goals, including the use of -OMICs technologies (particularly metabolomics and epigenomics), as well as developing and linking large exposure databases with state-wide health outcomes databases, including Medicaid. She also uses metabolomic and epigenetic approaches to study long-term, subclinical health effects of occupational and environmental exposures in firefighters. |
| Professor Jefferey Burgess | |
| Dr. Burgess' research has included evaluation and prevention of carcinogenic exposures to firefighters, miners, Native Americans, and populations exposed to arsenic in their water and food. Much of his recent research has involved firefighters, a group known to have increased cancer rates compared to the general population. Working in partnership with the Tucson Fire Department, his research team has identified effective interventions to reduce fireground exposures. In addition, the team has identified circulating microRNA and DNA methylation markers of increased cancer risk among firefighters. Dr. Burgess also is leading a research team that established and is now expanding the Fire Fighter Cancer Cohort Study (FFCCS), a national multicenter prospective study including exposure measurement, biomarkers of effect and cancer outcomes. |
Projects
- 2021.08 - 2025.05
FFCCS
Established in July 2016 with funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Fire Fighter Cancer Cohort Study (FFCCS) gathers nationwide data on firefighter health, including surveys, biomarkers, and exposure information related to cancer-causing substances. This partnership with the fire service aims to understand the health impacts of these exposures and prevent associated risks.
- Firefighter
- Cancer prevention
- 2022.08 - 2025.05
AZHEROES
The goal of the Arizona Healthcare, Emergency Response, and Other Essential Workers Surveillance (AZ HEROES) Study is to enhance our knowledge of the epidemiologic and immunologic characteristics of novel COVID-19 infection and reinfection among high-exposure individuals who provide critical services to our communities.
- COVID-19
- Essentail workers