Zhiru Liu

Hi there! I’m a postdoctoral fellow in the Greenbaum Lab and the Balachandran Lab at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where I work on a variety of problems at the intersection of cancer evolution and quantitative immunology.

Prior to this, I completed my PhD with Benjamin Good at Stanford University. My PhD research focused on quantifying the dynamics of bacterial recombination—a form of horizontal gene transfer within the same species—in the human gut microbiome. A full list of my publications is available here, and my Google Scholar profile can be found here.

Prior to graduate school, I studied physics, math and computer science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I was thinking about questions related to phylogenetic trees under the guidance of Nigel Goldenfeld.