Stanford University
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Marc Lipsitch
Michael and Barbara Berberian Professor, Professor of Biology and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
BioMarc Lipsitch and his research group study the impact of medical and public health interventions and human immunity on pathogen populations and the consequences of these changes for human health. Within this broad umbrella we consider both ecological effects (modulating the amount of transmission and infection) and evolutionary ones (shaping the genetic composition of the populations of infectious agents). Specific areas of interest include natural selection imposed by strain-specific vaccines and antibiotics, design and evaluation of measures to control outbreaks and pandemics, methods for evaluating vaccine efficacy, and surveillance design. Tools include mathematical and computational modeling, pathogen population genomics, causal inference methods, and (in the past) experimental microbiology and immunology. In addition to this scientific research, we work in the areas of research ethics and biosecurity (through an appointment at the Center for International Security and Cooperation). He joined Stanford in 2026. From 1999-2025 he was a faculty member at Harvard TH Chan Schooll of Public Health, where he was Professor of Epidemiology (20062025) and founding Director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics (2009-2025). He was founding Director for Science and then Senior Advisor at the CDC's Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics (2021-5).
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Rong Liu
Postdoctoral Scholar, Biology
BioRong Liu is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Biology at Stanford University. Her research focuses on biodiversity, biogeography, and plant functional ecology, with particular interest in understanding how plant traits, evolutionary history, and environmental gradients shape global patterns of species diversity. She uses large-scale herbarium records, functional trait data, phylogenies, and spatial modelling approaches to study plant bioregionalization and ecological responses to environmental change.
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Sharon R. Long
William C. Steere, Jr. - Pfizer Inc. Professor of 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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Yanxu Long
Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar, Biology
Affiliate, Conservation BiologyBioYanxu Long is a visiting postdoctoral scholar with NatCap at Stanford University and a postdoctoral associate with NatCap TEEMs in the University of Minnesota’s Department of Applied Economics. He is an environmental economist studying relationships between people and nature through the lens of forests. His research spans environmental and development economics, ecosystem services, and natural capital accounting. Using applied econometrics, spatial data, and interdisciplinary methods, he examines economic effects of environmental policies and environmental consequences of economic development. His current work includes ecosystem-service valuation of wildfire fuel-reduction treatments, techno-economic analysis of biochar production, and measurement of gross ecosystem product across countries. He earned his Ph.D. in Applied Economics from the University of Minnesota in 2025.
