Women in Science: We have the power to change the world
A series of interviews with female scientists presented by GradSWE UCLA. We aim to encourage and give confidence to more women to pursue STEMM! Here you can listen to advice from professors, postdocs, and graduate students!
Episode 10
Guest: Dr. Smruthi Karthikeyan
Dr. Smruthi Karthikeyan is currently an Assistant Professor at California Institute of Technology. Her research areas are microbiome, microbial ecology, modeling of microbial community dynamics to study ecosystem function, computational biology (multi-omics, genome-resolved metagenomics), environmental microbiology, high-throughput sequencing, and systems biology.
Episode 9
Guest: Dr. Lauren Stadler
Dr. Lauren Stadler is currently an Assistant Professor at Rice University. Her research areas are wastewater-based epidemiology, environmental synthetic biology, fate of antibiotic resistance in resource recovery processes, integrated water management, and resource recovery from food waste.
Episode 8
Guest: Dr. Cesunica Ivey
Dr. Cesunica Ivey is currently an Assistant Professor at University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests are human interactions and air quality disparities, air quality and meteorology, sustainable mobility and air quality, and computational methods. She is also the founder of the BWINSTEM platform.
Episode 7
Guest: Isabella Lin
Isabella Lin is currently an MD/Ph.D. Candidate at University of California, Los Angeles in Prof. Valerie Arboleda Group. Her research interests are human genetics and rare disorders, and her clinical interest is in pediatric hematology/oncology.
Arboleda Group: https://www.arboledalab.org/
Episode 6
Guest: Dr. Yike Shen
Dr. Yike Shen is currently a postdoc at Columbia University in Prof. Andrea Baccarelli Group. Her research interests are environmental health data science, microbiome, and exposure assessment.
Baccarelli Group: https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/research/laboratory-precision-environmental-health
Episode 5
Guest: Dr. Rachel Scholes
Dr. Rachel Scholes is currently an Assistant Professor at The University of British Columbia. Her research interests are nature-based treatment, transformation of emerging contaminants, and safer alternatives.
Episode 4
Guest: Dr. Julie Rorrer
Dr. Julie Rorrer is currently an Assistant Professor at University of Washington. She is also the founder of ColorMePhD. Her research interests are plastic depolymerization and upcycling, upgrading renewable platform molecules using tandem catalysis, and fundamentals of C-C, C-O, and C-X bond activation.
Episode 3
Guest: Dr. Alex Polasko-Todd
Dr. Alex Polasko-Todd is currently a postdoc at Stanford University in Prof. James D. Brooks group. Her research focuses on biomarkers and therapeutics for prostate cancer and benign diseases.
Episode 2
Guest: Yi-Chien (Tiffany) Tang
Tiffany Tang is currently a Ph.D. student at Georgia Institute of Technology in Prof. Aditi Das group. The research areas of Das laboratory are biochemical mechanism of epoxygenases and endocannabinoids & phytocannabinoids metabolism by P450s.
Das Lab: https://sites.google.com/site/aditidaspro/
Episode 1
Guest: Dr. Jingqiu Liao
Dr. Jingqiu Liao is currently an Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech. Her research interests are environmental microbiomes, environmental surveillance of foodborne pathogens and antimicrobial resistance, ecosystem sustainability, and microbial ecology and evolution.
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