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Christina Gangemi
Postdoctoral Scholar, Developmental Biology
BioDr Christina Gangemi received her undergraduate degree from Monash University (2016) specialising in molecular biology and biochemistry. She became an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Scholar (2016) and completed her Honours thesis (2017) at the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI), Monash University. She later joined Professor Harald Janovjak’s group at ARMI (2018) as a research assistant before completing her doctorate degree (2019-2023) where she studied optical approaches to promote pancreatic beta cell regeneration. Key achievements from this work include establishing an automated image analysis approach to quantify islet proliferation assays, designing a modular light-emitting diode shelving system for ex vivo and in vitro illumination of primary islets, generating a new assay to test cyclin-dependent kinase 6 (CDK6) function (a known beta cell proliferation driver), and exploring the effects of photoswitchable pdDronpa domains when engineered into CDK6. During her candidature, she was awarded a Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Australia PhD Top-Up Scholarship. In 2023 she undertook a Postdoctoral Research Associate role in the Janovjak group at Flinders University and has recently joined Professor Seung Kim's group at Stanford University.
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Yifan Gao
Postdoctoral Scholar, Microbiology and Immunology
BioDr. Yifan Gao is a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University School of Medicine in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology under Prof. Justin Sonnenburg's advisement. Prior to joining Stanford, she received her Ph.D. from UCLA focusing on Environmental Microbiology and M.S. from UC Berkeley in Environmental Engineering.
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Cathy Garcia
Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford Cancer Center
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsIslet biology, diabetes, obesity, pancreatic cancer
