2025 Next Generation Faculty Symposium Speakers

Last Update:
08/2025

2025 Next Generation Faculty Symposium Honorable Mentions

• Philip Adeniyi - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Oregon Science and Health University

• Maria Bustillo - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at New York University

• Ava Carter - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University

• Jason Casar - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University

• Christian Cazares - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California - San Diego

• Michael Coulter - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California - San Francisco

• Kelsey DeFrates - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California - San Francisco

• Erin Doherty - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California - Berkeley

• Stanna Dorn - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the California Institute of Technology

• Mohamed El-Brolosy - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University & the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

• Christian Figueroa-Espada - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

• Catherine Freije - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Rockefeller University

• Nathan Gamarra - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University

• Anita Gola - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Rockefeller University

• Elizabeth Hart - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University

• Katie Hatstat - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California - San Francisco

• Miriam Hernandez Morales - Associate Specialist at the University of California - Berkeley

• Ryan Hulett - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Carnegie Institution for Science

• Kathryn Kapp - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University

• Elizabeth Kaweesa - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Illinois - Chicago

• Kangjoo Lee - Associate Research Scientist at Yale University

• Yuanwei Li - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University

• Lindsey Lin - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California - San Francisco

• Cody Loy - Graduate Student at the University of California Irvine

• Bria Macklin - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Gladstone Institutes

• Kaia Mattioli - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University & Brigham & Women’s Hospital

• Reinner Omondi - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Kansas

• Morwan Osman - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of York

• Kali Pruss - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis

• Carlos Rivera - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University & Massachusetts General Hospital

• Julia Rogers - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Columbia University

• Fernando Rossine - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University

• Samuel Thompson - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University

• Iris van’t Erve - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University

2020
17 Honorable Mentions - 11 Faculty, 2 Postdocs and 4 in additional career opportunities

1. Eman Akam
   Instructor at Harvard Medical School - Massachusetts General Hospital

2. Lindsey Backman
   Valhalla Fellow at the White Head Institute

3. R. Konane Bay
   Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Colorado - Boulder
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4. Cheavar Blair
   Assistant Professor of Physiology at the University of Kentucky

5. John F. Brooks II
   Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University
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6. David Castillo-Azofeifa
   Principal Scientist at Genentech

7. Ahmed El Hady
   Group Leader at the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour - Universität Konstanz
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8. Mariana Gomez-Schiavon
   Principal Investigator at the International Laboratory for Human Genome Research - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
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9. Christian Guerrero-Juarez
   Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California - Irvine

10. Colwyn Headley
    Instructor at Stanford University

11. Rogelio Hernandez-Lopez
    Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and of Genetics at Stanford Unviersity
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12. Manuel Razo-Mejia
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University

13. Florentine Rutaganira
    Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and of Developmental Biology at Stanford University
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14. Melody Smith
    Assistant Professor of Medicine at Stanford University
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15. Christina Termini
    Assistant Professor of Human Biology and of Translational Science & Therapeutics at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center
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16. Linda T. Vo
    Director of New Opportunities at Curie.Bio

17. Asher Williams
    Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Columbia University
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2021
20 Honorable Mentions - 15 Faculty, 1 Postdoc and 4 in additional career opportunities

1. Hoda Abdel Magid
   Assistant Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences and Spatial Sciences at the University of Southern California

2. Juan Angueyra
   Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Maryland
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3. Daniel Bayless
   Assistant Professor of Molecular Neurobiology at the Salk Institute
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4. Fatima Enam
   Consultant at Boston Consulting Group

5. Diego Fernandez
   Assistant Professor of Opthalmology - Science of Light Center at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
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6. Leah Guthrie
   Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at the University of California - Berkeley
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7. Shuo Han
   Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology at Duke University
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8. Colwyn Headley
   Instructor at Stanford University

9. Maia Kinnebrew
   Distinguished Fellow of Biochemistry at Stanford University
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10. Huong Kratochvil
    Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
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11. Shan Meltzer
    Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University
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12. Rachel Niederer
    Assistant Professor of Cellular and Molecular Biology at the University of Michigan
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13. Jasmine Nirody
    Assistant Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago
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14. Agostina Palmigiano
    Lecturer at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at University College London

15. Candice Price
    Program Director at the National Institutes of Health - National Heart, Lunch and Blood Institute

16. Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana
    Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University
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17. Shelbi Russell
    Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering at University of California - Santa Cruz
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18. Trevor Sorrells
    Assistant Professor of Genetics at Yale University
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19. Jacob Steenwyk
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of California - Berkeley

20. Valerie Tornini
    Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology and Physiology at the University of California - Los Angeles
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2023
18 Honorable Mentions - 8 Faculty, 9 Postdocs and 1 in an additional career opportunity

1. Samira Abdulai-Saiku
   Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California - San Francisco

2. Neville Bethel
   Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California - San Diego
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3. Rashmi Chandra
   Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California - San Francisco

4. Justin Conner
   Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California - Berkeley

5. Maria Fernanda Forni
   Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Yale University

6. Melanie Hannebelle
   Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute

7. Colwyn Headley
   Instructor at Stanford University

8. Sergio Hidalgo Sotelo
   Assistant Professor of Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience at Washington State University
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9. Rose Hill
   Assistant Professor of Chemical Physiology and Biochemistry at Oregon Health and Science University
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10. Chinyere Iweka
    Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at Case Western Reserve University
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11. Vineet Joag
    Assistant Professor at the Center for Immunity and Immunotherapies at the University of Washington - Seattle Children’s Hospital

12. Ahmad Nabhan
    Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California - Berkeley

13. Renato Navarro
    Assistant Professor of Material Science and Engineering at the University of Florida

14. Jean Jacques Noubiap
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California - San Francisco

15. Lenore Pipes
    Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaii - Manoa
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16. Piere Rodriguez-Aliaga
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University

17. Marielena Sosa
    Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at University of Colorado - Boulder

18. Jacob Steenwyk
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of California - Berkeley