AWIS Officers

Committee Chairs

Academia 2 Industry (A2I) Rose Presby & Eulalia Countinho
AWIS Leadership Network (ALN) Christina Niemeyer & Lori Yang
Career Advancement Jill Slaboda & Satarupa Bhaduri
Corporate Sponsorship Kayal Madhivanan
Events Taylor Kredel & Agnes Antwan
Newsletter Jean Spence
Outreach Christine Stephen & Jamillah Murtadha
Public Relations Suzana Hossain
Scholarship Bharti Garg
Website Jennifer Swindlehurst Chan
    
 

 

Rose Academia 2 Industry Co-Chair: Rose Presby

Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Lab of Dr. Albert Chen, Scintillon Institute

Training: BS Biology with Minor Psychology, University of Maine, 2013; MS, Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut, 2019; PhD Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut, 2021

Additional AWIS involvement: Corporate Sponsership, Scholarship and Outreach Committees; Open House Organizing Committee 2022

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Back to top
Eulalia Academia 2 Industry Co-Chair: Eulalia Countinho

Current position: Scientist 2, Crinetics Pharmaceuticals

Training: BSc with Hons in Microbiology and Biochemistry, St. Xavier's College, University of Mumbai, 2009; PhD in Physiology, SOKENDAI, Japan, 2015

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Back to top
Christina AWIS Leadership Network (ALN) Co-Chair: Christina Niemeyer

Current position: Principal, i2 Grants Associates

Training: BS with Honors in Microbiology, Texas A&M University; PhD Cellular and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine

Additional AWIS involvement: WIST, Treasurer 2014-2016, Board Member 2017-2019

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Back to top
Lori AWIS Leadership Network (ALN) Co-Chair: Lori Yang

Current position: CEO and CSO, Lectenz Bio

Training: BS Chemistry, University of Virginia; PhD Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University

Additional AWIS involvement: PR Committee; WIST 2015 Organizing Committee, WIST 2017 Co-Chair; Treasurer 2016-2017; Open House Organizing Committee 2022

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Back to top
 jill Career Advancement Co-Chair: Jill Sladoba

Current position: Sr UX Researcher, ServiceNow

Training: Ph.D Bioengineering University of Pittsburgh

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 Back to top
 
satarupa Career Advancement Co-Chair: Satarupa Bhaduri

Current position: Postdoctoral scholar, UC San Diego

Training: PhD Biophysics and Structural Biology, Purdue University

Additional AWIS involvement: AWIS-SD board Secretary

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 Back to top
kayal Corporate Sponsorship Chair: Kayal Madhivanan

Current position: Assistant Project Scientist, UC San Diego

Training: MS in Biological Science, B.Pharmacy 2009, PhD Cell Biology 2015

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 Back to top
taylor Events Co-Chair: Taylor Kredel

Current position: Senior Research Associate II, Crinetics Pharmaceuticals

Training: BS Neuroscience, Western Washington University 2015

Additional AWIS involvement: Public Relations Committee

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Back to top
agnes Events Co-Chair: Agnes Antwan

Current position: Senior Research Associate II, Crinetics Pharmaceuticals 

Training: BS Biology, University of California Riverside 2013 

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Back to top
Jean Spence Newsletter Co-Chair: Jean Spence

Jean Spence earned a Ph.D. from the University of Utah in microbial genetics. Subsequently, she did several (too many) postdoctoral fellowships at M.I.T., Harvard Medical School, UCSD and the University of Rochester. She pursued her interest in systems biology by developing a novel platform and publishing 3 manuscripts and a book chapter as communicating author. She has been a reviewer for the AWIS newsletter since 2014 and became a co-chair this year. She was also a co-chair of the former Back to Work group in AWIS.

To email Jean, click This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Back to top
Christine Outreach Co-Chair: Christine Stephen

Current position: Graduate Student, Lab of Dr. Tatiana Mishanina, UC San Diego

Training: B.S. Biochemistry, UC Santa Barbara, 2018

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Back to top
Jamillah Outreach Co-Chair: Jamillah Murtadha

Current position: Staff Research Associate, Moores Cancer Center

Training: UC San Diego, Biological Sciences

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Back to top
suzana Public Relations Chair: Suzana Hossain

Current position: Research Associate, Host-Microbe Systems & Therapeutics, UC San Diego

Training: B.S. Biochemistry & Cell Biology, UC San Diego, 2020; M.S. Biology, UC San Diego, 2021

Additional AWIS involvement: Outreach Committee, 2021; Communications Committee 2021-current

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 Back to top
Bharti Scholarship Co-Chair: Bharti Garg

Current position: Project Scientist

Training: Basic and translational research in pancreatic cancer

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 Back to top
Jennifer Website Chair: Jennifer Swindlehurst Chan

Current position: Graduate Student, Biological Sciences, UC San Diego

Training: BA Biology and Neuroscience & Behavior, Wesleyan University, 2018

Additional AWIS involvement: Communications Committee

 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Back to top
Go to top