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Featured Research from Stanford University

Project Tracing zoonotic disease risks and immunological adaptations in bats, humans and human commensals across the Central American countryside, Stanford University (1/1/2015 - Present)

Principal Investigator:
Elizabeth Hadly

Bats have been identified as the reservoirs for a number of emerging infectious diseases but most of these pathogens have coevolved with their hosts for long periods of time without causing issue. We are seeking to understand the potential sources, sinks and pathways of zoonotic infection in a countryside landscape that is home to one of the most diverse bat faunas in the world by examining bats and livestock as well as surveying human behavior.

Location

Costa Rica

Project Evolution, Extinction, and Conservation of Caribbean Mammals, Stanford University (2013 - Present)

Principal Investigator:
Elizabeth Hadly

We take an interdisciplinary approach to reconstruct recent extinctions in the Caribbean across the past 15,000 years, and leverage these data towards guiding conservation planning in the region under a changing climate and growing human population. Techniques include genomics, stable isotopes, radiocarbon dating, and morphometrics.

Location

Dominican Republic

Collaborators

  • Juan Almonte, Curator, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santo Domingo

Project Ecological and evolutionary aspects of the bat-infection relationship, Stanford University (February 2012 - Present)

Principal Investigator:
Elizabeth Hadly

Costa Rica is home to one of the richest, most ecologically diverse bat faunas in the world and is also subject to widespread habitat conversion like many developing nations. We seek to understand how bat ecology and deforestation affect infections in bats as well as how ecologically diverse bats may have evolved to deal with their infections.

Location

Costa Rica

Project Strengthening the Research Ecosystem for Sustainability Research in India, Stanford University

Principal Investigator:
Helen Longino

This interdisciplinary research project is prompted by the persistent neglect of environmental sustainability by nationally and regionally sponsored agricultural research programs designed to enhance food security in India. This project goes outside the usual sources of analysis and uses feminist philosophy of science to draw lessons and build capacities for the integration of climate policy with agriculture-food development policy in India. It analyses the environmental values and conceptualisations in science, development interventions and outcomes.

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Daniel Rubin
Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science and of Radiology (Integrative Biomedical Imaging Informatics at Stanford), of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics Research) and, by courtesy, of Ophthalmology
Nicole Ardoin
Associate Professor of Education and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment
Lynn Meskell
Professor of Anthropology
Zephyr Frank
Professor of History and, by courtesy, Iberian and Latin American Cultures
Richard Zare
Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science and Professor, by courtesy, of Physics
Gary Darmstadt
Professor (Teaching) of Pediatrics (Neonatology) and, by courtesy, of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Jason Andrews
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and, by courtesy, of Health Research and Policy (Epidemiology)
Elizabeth Hadly
Paul S. and Billie Achilles Professor in Environmental Biology, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and Professor, by courtesy, of Geological Sciences
Jenna Davis
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment
Michele Barry, MD, FACP
Senior Associate Dean, Global Health, Director, Center for Innovation in Global Health, Professor of Medicine (Primary Care & Population Health), Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and at the Freeman Spogli Institute
Maurice Rehm
Professor of Theater and Performance Studies and of Classics
Frank Wolak
Ronak Patel
Clinical Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
Emergency Medicine
Marc R. Safran, MD
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Stanford University Medical Center
Ami Bhatt
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Hematology) and of Genetics
Rob Dunbar
Abby C. King
Professor of Health Research and Policy (Epidemiology) and of Medicine (Stanford Prevention Research Center)
Peter Acker
Clinical Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
Emergency Medicine
Stephen Luby
Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute and the Freeman Spogli Institute and Professor, by courtesy, of Health Research and Policy (Epidemiology)
Kenneth Scheve
Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Scott Rozelle
Helen C. Farnsworth Professor in International Agricultural Policy and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research