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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Zac Yung-Chun Liu
Research, Hopkins Marine Station
Staff, Hopkins Marine StationBioZac Yung-Chun Liu specializes in machine learning, artificial intelligence applications, remote sensing imagery processing, and geospatial analysis. His deep learning work includes computer vision, image classification, segmentation, object detection, and natural language processing, related to disease ecology and shark conservation.
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Sharon R. Long
William C. Steere, Jr. - Pfizer Inc. Professor in Biological Sciences and Professor, by courtesy, of Biochemistry
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsBiochemistry, genetics and cell biology of plant-bacterial symbiosis
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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.
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Christopher Lowe
Associate Professor of Biology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsEvolution and development, specifically the evolution of the deuterostomes
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Liqun Luo
Ann and Bill Swindells Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and Professor, by courtesy, of Neurobiology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsWe are studying how neural circuits are assembled during development, and how they contribute to sensory perception. We are addressing these questions at different levels from molecular, cellular, circuit to animal behavior. We are primarily using Drosophila as a model organism for our studies. Most recently, we are also developing novel genetic tools in the mouse to extend our studies to the mammalian brain.
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Elora H. López
Ph.D. Student in Biology, admitted Autumn 2015
BioElora López is a Ph.D. candidate in Biology at Stanford University. She uses genomics to address questions about the ecology, evolution, and conservation of marine life. Her research spans a wide range of topics, including coral bleaching recovery in American Samoa, somatic mutations in very long-lived organisms, and the effects of nuclear radiation on wildlife at Bikini Atoll, a former nuclear testing site in the Marshall Islands.
López's first research expedition to Bikini Atoll was featured on the PBS documentary series Big Pacific in June 2017. Her research projects have also been featured in USA Today, The Atlantic, The Guardian, and Hakai Magazine.
López is a National Geographic Early Career Explorer, an Explorers Club Rolex Explorer, a Stanford Graduate Fellow in Science & Engineering, and a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow.
