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Mohan Babu Budikote Venkatappa
Postdoctoral Scholar, Genetics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsLongitudinal host-microbial omics profiling and wearables-based monitoring to understand Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), its heterogeneity, and predictors of the diverse symptoms that ASD individuals experience.
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Florian Bach
Postdoctoral Scholar, Infectious Diseases
BioI'm a molecular infection biologist by training, but shifted my focus from pathogens to hosts for my graduate research. During my PhD with Phil Spence in Edinburgh I studied both falciparum and vivax malaria using controlled human (re)infection models, collaborating closely with the groups of Simon Draper and Angela Minassian in Oxford. As a hybrid bioinformatician and experimentalist, I love systems immunology for answering complex questions about human health. For my postdoc, I study in how the human immune response to malaria evolves in infants as they become reinfected and age. I'm also interested in how such early-life immunological events, malaria and beyond, may affect vaccine responses and immune development later in life. I address this question by making use of a longitudinal study cohort of infants receiving monthly chemoprevention in Eastern Uganda, together with our collaborators at UC San Francisco and IDRC Uganda.
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Adrian Matias Bacong
Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiovascular Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsAdrian M. Bacong, PhD, MPH is a social epidemiologist by training. His research seeks to identify social and structural factors that underlie health inequities by race, ethnicity, and immigration status. Specifically, his work has explored the role of socioeconomic factors in explaining health disparities by immigrant legal status and visa type. Furthermore, Adrian is interested in the effects of immigration on health. He received a NIH F31 award (1F31MD015931-01A1) to examine factors affecting the health of Filipino migrants to the U.S. compared to Filipinos remaining in the Philippines.
Adrian has also examined the intersections of race, ethnicity, and immigration status among older adults. Finally, Adrian written upon the role of data disaggregation as a method of public health critical race praxis. Currently, Adrian is researching the role of social and policy level factors underlying health disparities among immigrants. -
Cameron Scott Bader
Postdoctoral Scholar, Bone Marrow Transplantation
BioMy research is focused on using preclinical models to develop novel therapies which improve outcomes for patients receiving allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Currently, my work aims to establish strategies to reduce the risk of relapse after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation without exacerbating graft-versus-host disease or interfering with donor stem cell engraftment.
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Xiangqi Bai
Postdoctoral Scholar, Oncology
BioMy research is focused on computational and systems biology. My primary research interest lies in developing new computational algorithms and statistical methods for the analysis of complex data in biological systems, especially related to the large-scale single-cell RNA sequencing data. The specific topics I have examined include:
1. Integration of single-cell multi-omics datasets for tumor
2. Statistical test of cell developmental trajectories
3. Visualization and reconstruction of single-cell RNA sequencing data
4. Computational analysis of the bifurcating event revealed by dynamical network biomarker methods -
Thomas Bearrood
Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemical and Systems Biology
BioThomas Bearrood received his B.A. from St. Olaf College, double majoring in chemistry and math. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His graduate research was completed in Jeff Chan's lab, where he developed activity-based fluorescent and photoacoustic probes for biologically interesting molecules. Thomas came to Stanford in 2021 as a postdoctoral scholar in James Chen's lab. His current research focuses on understanding the role of ALDH1B1 in gastrointestinal cancers.
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Anne Berens
Postdoctoral Medical Fellow, Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics
Fellow in Pediatrics - General PediatricsCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsDeveloping a novel measure of immigration-related stress and trauma among children and parents; assessing associations with child developmental and mental health outcomes in order to inform advocacy and clinical interventions.
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Vimala Bharadwaj
Postdoctoral Scholar, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
BioDr. Bharadwaj grew up in India and came to the United States for her graduate studies. She completed her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at Arizona State University. Her doctoral work focused on preclinical studies investigating nanoparticle delivery across the blood-brain barrier after traumatic brain injury. In 2018, she joined Drs. Porreca and Anderson laboratories at the University of Arizona for postdoctoral training. Her postdoctoral work focused on identifying the critical role of dorsal pons neurons in the migraine pain pathway. Currently, she continues her migraine research in Dr. Yeomans’s lab at Stanford Medicine. Dr. Bharadwaj is also currently involved in post-traumatic headache research in Dr. David Clark's laboratory at the Veterans Affairs (Palo Alto). Recently, she was awarded the prestigious International Headache Society Fellowship for investigating mechanisms for migraine pain generation. Over the years, she has held several leadership positions including serving as the communications director for Stanford Postdoctoral Association, as a diversity, equity, and inclusion Ally for the American Headache Society, and as an assistant editorial team member for the Headache journal.
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Sumana Bhowmick
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
BioMy main research interests focus on isolation and characterizing novel compounds and producing them with sufficient purity to be tested in biological systems followed by target discovery the use of '-omics' technologies.
My aim is to get associated with a challenging position within an organization wherein I can use my skills to the optimum level and at the same time get an opportunity to enhance my knowledge and pursue skills for further research work. -
Emma Elizabeth Biggs
Postdoctoral Scholar, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy main research interests are in the field of chronic pain and learning. I am interested in understanding how processes related to learning can contribute to the development, spreading, and treatment of chronic pain. I am especially interested in understanding how fear and pain interact across complex brain networks.
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Eran Blacher
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
BioDr. Blacher carried out his B.Sc studies in Life Sciences (2007-2010) and proceeded to Ph.D. in Neuroimmunology (2010-2015) under the Dean’s list honors direct Ph.D. program for outstanding students of Tel-Aviv University, Israel. His postdoctoral studies were carried out at the lab of Prof. Eran Elinav from the Immunology department at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (2015-2018), where he studied the role of the Microbiome-gut-brain axis in the context of neurodegenerative diseases.
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Daniel Bloodgood
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurosurgery
BioI am a postdoctoral fellow interested in using multiplexing molecular, electrophysiological, and microscopy techniques to
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Jan Lukas Boegeholz
Postdoctoral Scholar, Oncology
BioI am currently working as a postdoctoral fellow in translational cancer research, linking new insights and techniques in molecular biology to clinical problems in cancer patients. Prior to joining Ash Alizadeh's lab, I completed a four-year fellowship in hematology in Zurich, Switzerland, treating patients with various cancer types and stages.
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Pien Bosschieter
Postdoctoral Scholar, Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery
BioPien Bosschieter was born in the Netherlands and studied Medicine at the University of Groningen, where she obtained her M.D. degree. In 2019 she started research under the supervision of Prof. Dr. N. de Vries, Prof. Dr. F. Lobbezoo en Dr. M.J.L. Ravesloot at the Ear, Nose, Throat department of OLVG, Amsterdam and obtained her PhD degree in June 2022. Simultaneously she worked as a resident at the same department and conducted over 1500 drug-induced sleep endoscopies focusing on improving OSA-patient care. In September she passed the exam and became a certified somnologist - expert in sleep medicine, this title was issued by European Sleep Research Society (ESRS).
Currently working as post-doctoral scholar at the sleep surgery department of Stanford Medical Hospital. In this role she will be continuing her line of research on determining predictors for obstructive sleep apnea and its treatment response. -
Molly Bowdring
Postdoctoral Scholar, SCRDP/ Heart Disease Prevention
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am interested in elucidating factors that contribute to initiation, maintenance, and exacerbation of substance use, as well as problematic substance use consequences. To date, I have largely focused on investigating psychosocial aspects of social drinking experiences via naturalistic, experimental, and meta-analytic studies.
I additionally seek to use scholarly advocacy to enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion within clinical and academic spaces. -
Francesca Briganti
Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiovascular Institute
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsOne gene can lead to the production of many different RNA isoforms via mechanisms such as alternative promoter usage, splicing, and polyadenylation. The functional significance of many of these isoforms, their impact on cell physiology, and their regulation remain mostly controversial. Understanding the functional consequences of transcript heterogeneity will improve our understanding of gene expression regulation, broadening our ability to intervene when mutations that interfere with this regulation cause human disease.
My goal is to become an independent researcher leading an academic lab that focuses on better understanding human tissue-specific post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression and developing mechanism-based therapeutics. My general strategy is to study the function of regulatory genes and their deregulation in human disease. My specific approach is to understand the molecular mechanisms by which disease-causing mutations alter the gene function and lead to human disease. My hypothesis is that a detailed understanding of the relationship between the gene's molecular function and the disease mechanism will allow the development of first-in-class, personalized therapeutic strategies that target the disease mechanisms rather than manage symptoms independently of disease etiology. -
Kathryn Brink
Postdoctoral Scholar, Infectious Diseases
BioKathryn Brink is a postdoctoral scholar in the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), where she works with Megan Palmer and David Relman. Kathryn is a synthetic biologist by training. During her PhD, Kathryn studied bacterial two-component systems (TCSs), signal transduction pathways that bacteria use to sense and respond to changes in their environment. TCSs play important roles in host-pathogen interactions and can be engineered for medical and environmental biosensing applications. In her thesis work, Kathryn developed engineering and screening approaches to discover and characterize the stimuli that activate these pathways.
At CISAC, Kathryn's research focuses on risk management and assessment in biological science and engineering, with the goals of improving the governance of biological research and reducing the risk of its misuse. She investigates factors associated with attention to risk among scientists and engineers and studies risk assessment processes in the life sciences. -
Andrew Brooks
Postdoctoral Scholar, Genetics
BioPostdoctoral researcher in the Snyder Lab. My research focuses on the human gut microbiome, and I am involved in multiple multiomic projects investigating how physiological systems through the human body interact across different lifestyles and health states. I perform both wet and dry lab aspects of multiomics analyses, and am involved in two coronavirus research projects including handling of positive SARS-COV-2 samples.
