School of Humanities and Sciences
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Julieta Alvarez-Manjarrez
Postdoctoral Scholar, Biology
BioSince my bachelor my main interest was the mycology. I did my bachelor thesis with morphology of Coccoloba uvifera's ectomycorrhizas, then my master thesis was about diversity of ectomycorrhizae in the Mexican tropical dry forest, and my PhD thesis was about the effect of the hurricane in soil fungal communities and the mycorrhizal network. I took a postdoc position in the Institute of Geology, where I studied the effect of waste water on agricultural microbial communities. I did two research stays in the University of Florida, and University of Tartu, Estonia.
I taught courses in the Faculty of Sciences at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México to undergradute students and one course to gradute students, I had advised four bachelor thesis from diverse topics related with fungi. I was treasurer of the Mycological Society of Mexico (2015-2018).
One of my passions is to paint watercolor and I illustrated a children's book for a Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NAtions (FAO) contest in 2020. -
Louis Berrios
Postdoctoral Scholar, Biology
BioLouis joined the Peay lab in 2021 after completing his Ph.D. at The University of South Carolina with Dr. Bert Ely. His research primarily focuses on the factors that govern the spatial distributions of bacteria and fungi as a function of microbe-microbe and plant-microbe interactions. From genomes to phenomes, Louis fuses both top-down and bottom-up experimental approaches to determine the genetic architecture that undergirds plant microbiome assemblages across landscapes.
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David Cade
Postdoctoral Scholar, Hopkins Marine Station
BioFor the most up to date information, check out www.davidecade.com
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Ching Chieh Chou
Postdoctoral Scholar, Biology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am interested in the cellular strategies to regulate protein folding, transport and aggregation, and the pathogenic pathways leading to proteome remodeling in age-related neurodegenerative diseases. I use molecular imaging, cell reprogramming and multi-omics technologies to address these questions with importance to the aging and neuroscience field.
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Griffin Chure
Postdoctoral Scholar, Biology
BioThe short version is that I'm a biologist trying to become a physicist. The slightly longer version is that I'm a postdoc at Stanford sitting in the lab of Jonas Cremer where I use principles of bacterial physiology to make predictive models of evolution. I firmly believe that the future of biology relies on an intuition for the physics that governs it, especially in evolutionary biology.
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Lauren Cote
Postdoctoral Scholar, Biology
BioI'm a developmental biologist with a background in planarian regeneration who is studying epithelial cells in Jessica Feldman's lab as a Damon Runyon Fellow supported by the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. I'm interested in understanding better how different kinds of epithelial cells, like the cells that line your gut and the cells that make up your skin, are able to correctly connect to one another and form fully continuous organs.
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Simon Dedman
Postdoctoral Scholar, Hopkins Marine Station
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy work focuses on the use of machine learning approaches to understand the drivers of the movements of sharks and tuna, then predictively map these species to inform conservation management.
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Alejandra Echeverri Ochoa
Postdoctoral Scholar, Biology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am an interdisciplinary conservation scientist interested in studying the social and ecological dimensions of biodiversity conservation in Latin America. I study questions related to the cultural value of biodiversity, the human footprint on ecological communities, and the policy interventions that can be done to support biodiversity conservation across Latin American ecosystems
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Giovanni Forcina
Postdoctoral Scholar, Biology
BioGiovanni grew up in Naples, Florida. He received his B.S. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University. He performed undergraduate research under the supervision of Prof. Scott Strobel at Yale and Dr. Kirk Gustafson in the Molecular Targets Lab at the National Cancer Institute. In these pursuits, Giovanni isolated and characterized a novel fungal genus from the Ecuadorian rainforest and elucidated the structure of two novel antimicrobial compounds the fungus produces. After graduation, he spent two years as a research assistant with Prof. Scott Dixon at Stanford. There, he developed a method to precisely quantify cell death over time, called STACK. As a graduate student, Giovanni was jointly advised between Prof. Carolyn Bertozzi and Prof. Scott Dixon where he studied misregulated cell death in the ultrarare disease Ngly1 deficiency. His work showed that the unusual transcription factor NFE2L1 is regulated by Ngly1 to potently inhibit a cell death pathway termed ferroptosis. Outside of lab, Giovanni is passionate about teaching, promoting equity in STEM, and how science can be used to better inform policy decisions.
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Jenna Forsyth
Postdoctoral Scholar, Biology
BioJenna is a postdoctoral fellow with the Woods Institute for the Environment. She completed her PhD with the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources and obtained her Master's in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Washington. Her research brings together principles of environmental science, epidemiology, and behavior change. She hopes to develop and evaluate interventions to minimize exposures to contaminants and disease vectors in low-income countries. Her most recent research on lead contamination in food has brought her to Bangladesh.
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Alfredo Giron Nava
Postdoctoral Scholar, Biology
BioAlfredo is an André Hoffmann Fellow at the Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions and the World Economic Forum Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. His work focuses on the use of technology to support sustainable fisheries management and the reduction of Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported catch at a global scale. His previous experience includes projects for sustainable fisheries management in the U.S., Mexico, Canada, Palau, Solomon Islands, the European Union, and a series of studies at a global scale. He has more than 10 years of experience thinking of ways to better communicate science and display data in meaningful ways, such as in the platform dataMares, which he a co-founded in 2014.
Alfredo is the first recipient of the Walter Munk Scholar Award by the Marine Technology Society and the Walter Munk Foundation for the Oceans in recognition of his work on using science and technology to improve the state of the ocean. He is also an EthicalGEO Fellow by the American Geographical Society for his work on developing methods to characterize poverty in fishing communities around the world. -
Danielle Elaine Haulsee
Postdoctoral Scholar, Hopkins Marine Station
BioDanielle Haulsee's interests include combining innovative technology and oceanographic remote sensing techniques with the biogeography and movement of marine species. She received her B.S. in Environmental Science from Gettysburg College in 2010 and her Ph.D. from the University of Delaware in 2017. At the University of Delaware she worked as a Ph.D. student and post-doctoral researcher with Dr. Matthew Oliver in the ORB Lab, focusing her research on threatened Sand Tiger sharks and endangered Atlantic Sturgeon. She used statistical models to quantify the habitat preferences, migratory behavior, and social dynamics of these species of interest. She has joined the Crowder Lab to work on a project tagging and tracking billfish off the coast of Costa Rica, Project DynaMAR (www.projectdynamar.com). Danielle will combine billfish locations from satellite tags with remotely sensed and modeled oceanographic data to predict billfish distribution in a changing climate.
