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Deborah Sivas

Luke W. Cole Professor of Environmental Law, Director of the Stanford Environmental Law Clinic, Professor (Teaching) of Environmental Social Sciences and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment

Contact Info
- Environmental Law Clinic
- Mills Legal Clinic at Stanford Law School
- 559 Nathan Abbott Way
- Stanford, California 94305-8610
(650) 723-4426 (fax)
dsivas@stanford.edu

Other Names:

Debbie Sivas

Shyam Mohan Sivasankar

Clinical Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine

BioMy interests lie in the intersection of Medicine and Media, Global Pediatric Emergency Medicine Education, Child Abuse Pediatrics, and in Medical Student Education.

Vikram Sivashankar

Masters Student in Computer Science, admitted Autumn 2022

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Mail Code: 8610
vikram29@stanford.edu

BioMy research is grounded in my curiosity about the living world and my desire to contribute to impactful, concrete discoveries. I began my journey in the world of biotechnology and microalgae during my studies at UTC in France, where I grew Volvox algae for tissue engineering purposes. Since then, I have been interested in studying and developing the potential of microalgae. During my PhD at CEA Cadarache, I investigated starch production in green microalgae for use in bioplastics. This work involved studying the induction, physiology and light requirements of starch accumulation, as well as developing a bioprocess for starch extraction, purification and plasticization. Working with Yonghua Li-Beisson, I have generated mutant strains of Ostreococcus tauri, one of the smallest known eukaryotes, to study the evolution of lipid metabolism in algae and plants. Here at Stanford, I am developing a genetic toolbox for non-model cyanobacteria in the Yeh lab.