Educational experience：

BS: Biology, Lanzhou University, 1988 MS: Zoology, Lanzhou University, 1991 PhD: Ecology, Beijing Normal University,1996

Statement：

I mainly study the behavior and its mechanisms of chemical communication, its fitness and evolutionary meanings in mammals using behavioral observation and chemical analysis. I am also interested in other communicative modalities, such as auditory and visual communications and their interactions in mammals. My second interest is the animal welfare of captive wildlife. I use a noninvasive approach to evaluate the efficacy of environmental enrichment manipulations for captive animals at city zoos and wildlife parks aiming to improve their welfare. Last, I am also interested in conservation biology works concerning endanger species protection, captive breeding and reintroduction.

Selected Publication：

1. Penglai Fan, Xuecong Liu, Ruoshuang Liu, Fang Li, Tianpeng Huang, Feng Wu, Hui Yao, Dingzhen Liu. (2018). Vocal repertoire of free-ranging adult golden snub-nosed monkeys. Am J Primatol (In press). (http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajp.22869)

2. Xin Zhao, Dingzhen Liu. (2018). Aggression and plasma testosterone in response to encounters with receptive vs. non-receptive females in male golden hamsters. Can J Zool. (In press). (https://doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2017-0232)

3. Xue-Ying Zhang, Wei Shen, Dingzhen Liu, De-Hua Wang. (2018). Diversity of thermogenic capacity predicts divergent obesity susceptibility in a wild rodent. Obesity, 26: 111-118.

4. Jiao Zhu, Simona Arena, Silvia Spinelli, Dingzhen Liu, Guiquan Zhang, Rongping Wei, Christian Cambillau, Andrea Scaloni, Guirong Wang, Paolo Pelosi. (2017). Reverse chemical ecology: olfactory proteins from the giant panda and their interactions with putative pheromones and bamboo volatiles. PNAS, 114 (46): E9802-E9810.

5. Penglai Fan, Chanyuan Liu, Hongyi, Chen, Xuefeng Liu, Dapeng Zhao, Jinguo Zhang & Dingzhen Liu. (2017). Preliminary study on hand preference in captive northern white-cheeked gibbons (Nomascus leucogenys). Primates, 58: 75-82.

6. Kai Ma, Dingzhen Liu, Rongping Wei, Guiquan Zhang, Hao Xie, Yan Huang, Desheng Li, Hemin Zhang, Haigen Xu. (2016). Giant panda reintroduction: factors affecting public support. Biodiver Conser, 25: 2987-3004.

7. Ma, X., Jin, Y., Luo, B., Zhang, G., Wei, R. & Liu, D. (2015). Giant pandas failed to show mirror self-recognition. Anim Cognition, 18: 713-721.

8. Shen, W., Zhang, X.-Y., Liu, D.-Z. & Wang, D.-H. (2015). Hormones orchestrated pre- and post-copulatory sexual traits in male Mongolian gerbils. Physiol Behav, 143, 90-96.

9. Bian X, Liu D, Zeng H, Zhang G, Wei R & Hou R. (2013). Exposure to odors of rivals enhances sexual motivation in male giant pandas. Plos ONE, 8(8): e69889.

10.    Wang Yuting & Liu Dingzhen. (2013). Low incidence of miscarriage by the scent of male siblings of original mates: male kinship reduces the Bruce effect in female mice, Mus musculus. Plos ONE, 8(7): e68673.