School of Humanities and Sciences
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Staci Lewis
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsStaci is interested in the impacts of land-use change on coral reef ecosystem services, and the transformation of governance regimes towards adaptive management of marine and coastal resources. Her work is based in the Republic of Palau, an island nation in Micronesia, where she is studying the emergence of watershed management and the sedimentation impacts on coral reefs in two watershed systems that have experienced modern increase in land development.
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Chuan Li
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biology
BioI am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Dmitri Lab (2017-now). My research interests include cancer genetics and fast evolution. I received my Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology with a dual degree in Statistics from the University of Michigan in 2017. During my Ph.D. at Dr. Jianzhi Zhang’s lab, I worked in quantifying intergenic and intragenic epistasis at a large scale with both experimental and computational approaches using yeast as the model system and published work on the empirical determination of the fitness landscape of the tRNA gene. In the Petrov lab, my research focuses on using tumor barcoding and barcode sequencing method (Tuba-seq) in mice to quantify the growth of tumors carrying specific genetic alterations at unprecedented resolution and throughput. My research focuses on applying the improved Tuba-seq platform to answer three questions. The first question is, how does knocking out candidate tumor suppressor genes affects tumor growth in different genetic backgrounds, stages of tumorigenesis, and sexes. The second question is how tumor suppressor genes, when mutated alone or in combination with other genes, affects tumor growth. The third question is, how does harboring various mutations affects the response to various cancer therapies.
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Xing Liang
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMechanism of MT polarity establishment during PVD neuron dendrite outgrowing in C. elegans.
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Hsiao-Wen Liao
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Psychology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy program of research aims to answer two broad questions: What factors contribute to long and meaningful lives? How do individual life experiences, particularly those that are personally significant and challenging, shape the pursuit of meaning across adulthood in diverse contexts? I address these questions from a functional approach to autobiographical memory. Specifically, my work has focused on (1) emotional memories, meaning-making and adult well-being, (2) developmental changes in motivation and its relation to autobiographical remembering, and (3) sociocultural factors that shape the remembering. My most recent research explores potential cognitive costs associated with the pursuit of meaning in diverse aging groups.
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Oliver Lindblad Petersen
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Mathematics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research concerns mathematical problems arising in General Relativity. I am especially interested in the behaviour of solutions to wave equations close to lightlike hypersurfaces, such as Cauchy horizons and event horizons. This leads to singular and degenerate hyperbolic PDEs on Lorentzian spacetimes. My research has been applied (with I. Rácz) to prove rigidity theorems for vacuum spacetimes with a compact Cauchy horizon, dropping the analyticity assumption in classical works by Moncrief and Isenberg.
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Gianalberto Losapio
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDisentangling the consequences of deforestation and biodiversity loss for species coexistence, and the role of coexistence mechanisms in mediating ecosystem functioning of forest communities in the tropics.
