Yuping Li is a graduate student in the Department of Biology at Stanford. She is co-advised by Professors Gavin Sherlock and Dmitri Petrov. Her Ph.D. work has been focusing on combining a DNA-barcode lineage tracking system in S. cerevisiae and experimental evolution to understand short-term adaptation and trade-offs. Can you tell us a bit about yourself, personally and professionally? This is Yuping. I am a graduate student in the Department of Biology, jointly advised by Professors Gavin Sherlock and Dmitri Petrov. I grew up in a small village in northern China, where the concept of researc ..read more

Images courtesy of Katya Mack. Katya’s work focuses on regulatory evolution on multiple times depths. She uses large-scale genomic datasets to uncover Darwin’s “mystery of mysteries”: how species are formed and maintained, as well as how populations adapt to new environments. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in Hunter Fraser’s lab at Stanford University. Can you tell us a bit about yourself, personally and professionally?  I grew up near Chicago, IL. When I was a child, I never envisioned growing up to be a scientist. I come from a family of really curious people who are fascinated by th ..read more

Laura Bogar is a Ph.D. Student in Stanford’s Department of Biology and the Peay Lab. Her PhD work is focused on symbiotic interactions between land plants and soil fungi. She earned her undergraduate degree in Biology at Lewis & Clark College in May 2012.  Can you tell us a bit about yourself, personally and professionally?  I was born in Seattle, Washington, and grew up loving the mountains and forests of the coastal Pacific Northwest. Both of my parents love the outdoors, and we spent a lot of time as a family exploring local parks and doing more ambitious multi-day backpacking trips wh ..read more

Alice is a public health geneticist and computational biologist, working at the intersections of evolutionary genomics, statistical genetics, and the ethical, legal, social implications (ELSI) of genomics research. Alice received her PhD in Public Health Genetics and Certificate in Statistical Genetics from the University of Washington. She is working on comparative evolutionary genomics as a CEHG Fellow, and as a postdoctoral scholar in the Bustamante Lab, she leads the Ancestry & Diversity Working Group of the Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen) consortium. Can you tell us a bit ab ..read more