Stanford.Berkeley.UCSF Next Generation Faculty Symposium highlights rising stars
The Symposium, sponsored by ChEM-H and co-organized by Institute Scholar Polly Fordyce, was held on October 23. It featured 12 exceptional early-career scientists in the field of quantitative biological and biomedical sciences with a demonstrated commitment to enhancing diversity, equity and inclusion in STEM.
The Next Generation Faculty Symposium is designed to reform faculty recruitment with targeted efforts prior to the announcement of faculty searches, thereby increasing the diversity and quality of our applicant pool. Research seminars highlight the work of a cohort of diverse late-stage graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
Speakers were selected based on demonstrated scientific excellence, evaluated based on prior research achievement and significant prior contributions to increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion. In addition to the presentations, the Symposium featured one-on-one and small group discussions between Next Gen Scientists and a scientific advisory board made of up faculty from related departments at UC Berkeley, Stanford, and UCSF. In this way, the Symposium is structured to provide meaningful mentoring for junior scientists that will directly impact their career trajectory while simultaneously providing search committees with early access to a highly coveted candidate pool. Our primary goal with this program is to dramatically increase the number of talented candidates in faculty search pools, who not only demonstrate promise to become great scientists, but who will also become the next generation of great professors.
Hear from the Next Gen scholars
Watch their recorded talks below
Hawa Racine Thiam, NHLBI
The nucleus: squeeze it, burst it, to mediate immune responses
Geoffrey Lovely, NIA
Visualizing a lymphocyte genome editor: watching the RAG recombinase locate antibody genes in living B cells
Kyle Daniels, UCSF
High-throughput screening of synthetic costimulatory domains to modulate CAR T cell function
Ottman Tertuliano, Stanford
Probing nanoscale human bone fracture to engineer biocompatible materials
Thomas Stewart, University of Chicago
Fins, limbs, and the origin of morphological novelty
Mireille Kamariza, Harvard
Towards Equitable BioMedicine
Catherine Tcheandjieu, Stanford
A multi-ethnic GWAS study of ascending aorta diameter and polygenic risk prediction for thoracic aortic disease
James Nunez, UCSF
Programmable transcriptional memory by CRISPR-mediated epigenome editing
Nicole Martinez, Yale
Pseudouridine synthases modify human pre-mRNA co-transcriptionally and affect splicing
David Cox, Stanford
RNA editing with CRISPR-Cas13
Caroline Palavicino-Maggio, Harvard
Investigating the underlying neural circuits that regulate female aggressive behavior
Chantell Evans, University of Pennsylvania
Investigating the temporal dynamics of neuronal mitophagy