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Bruce Macintosh
Professor of Physics
BioBruce Macintosh's research focusses on the study of extrasolar planets, in particular the study of such planets through direct imaging, and on using adaptive optics to shape the wavefronts of light for a variety of applications. Direct imaging of extrasolar planets involves blocking, suppressing, and subtracting the light of the bright parent star so that a planet hundreds of thousands of times fainter can be seen and studied in detail. Prof. Macintosh is the Principal Investigator of the Gemini Planet Imager http://planetimager.org/ ,an advanced adaptive optics planet-finder for the Gemini South telescope,. He also leads a Science Investigation Team for the coronagraph instrument on the WFIRST mission, focused on imaging and spectroscopy of extrasolar planets. He serves as Deputy Director of KIPAC.
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Professor Macintosh believes strongly in making astronomy and physics more inclusive, diverse and supportive. He currently chairs the Physics Department's Equity and Inclusion Committee https://physics.stanford.edu/about/equity-and-inclusion/committee and is active in science policy including the Astronomy and Astrophysics 2020 Decadal Survey. -
Stacy Malaker
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsAberrant glycosylation is a universal feature of cancer and contributes to the ability of malignant cells to evade the immune system. Elucidating how glycosylation can downregulate the immune system is key to designing cancer immunotherapies that would serve to re-activate the immune system to specifically target and kill cancer cells. My research research uses glycobiology and mass spectrometry to identify glycosylated targets on tumor cells that contribute to immune suppression.
