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Yulai Liu

Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemical Engineering

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Mail Code: 4300
yll0614@stanford.edu

BioDr. Liu received her medical and clinical pharmacology training at two of the most prestigious medical institutions in China—West China School of Medicine (Sichuan University) and Peking Union Medical College (PUMC). She possesses extensive research experience in human molecular genetics, tumor biology, and experimental therapeutics.
Dr. Liu is internationally recognized for her expertise in two rare pediatric hematologic disorders: juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML) and Diamond-Blackfan anemia (DBA). She has authored more than 30 peer-reviewed publications in leading scientific journals, including Nature Genetics, Blood, Leukemia, and the Journal of Clinical Investigation (JCI). At her previous institutions, Dr. Liu served as a Principle Investigator (PI) and co-investigator on several NIH-funded research projects. In 2019, Dr. Liu joined the Department of Pediatrics at the Stanford University School of Medicine as a Senior Research Scientist. She recently developed a novel mouse model for DBA, which has proven to be a valuable tool for evaluating potential therapeutic strategies. Her current research focuses on elucidating the molecular pathogenesis of DBA and developing innovative treatment approaches for DBA. Since joining Stanford, Dr. Liu has published multiple manuscripts highlighting her ongoing research contributions.

Yusong Liu

Staff Scientist, LCLS - Linac Coherent Light Source

BioI am a Staff Scientist in the LCLS Chemical Sciences Department at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. My research focuses on the excited-state dynamics of small organic molecules, with a particular emphasis on employing novel experimental techniques to probe these processes in real time and space.

Because these dynamics typically occur on attosecond to picosecond timescales, the strongly coupled electronic and nuclear motions drive ultrafast energy redistribution and structural transformations, processes that underpin fundamental phenomena across physics, chemistry, and biology.

Building on my extensive background in ultrafast laser science and time-resolved spectroscopy, my current work involves developing multi-modal experiments that integrate spectroscopy and diffraction. My toolkit includes time-resolved valence and soft X-ray core-ionization spectroscopy, as well as ultrafast electron and hard X-ray diffraction. These studies are conducted primarily at the LCLS X-ray FEL, the MeV-UED facility at SLAC, and our tabletop laser laboratories at the Stanford PULSE Institute.