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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Oliver Lindblad Petersen
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Mathematics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsGeometric Analysis, General Relativity, Ricci Flow
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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.
