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Alexandra LaPat Polasko
Postdoctoral Scholar, Urology
BioDr. Alexandra Polasko is a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University School of Medicine in the Department of Urology in Dr. James Brooks's lab. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. from UCLA in Civil and Environmental Engineering in Dr. Shaily Mahendra's lab and bachelors from UC Berkeley. Before coming to Stanford, she was a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA in the School of Dentistry, Oral Biology Division under Dr. Hung Ton-That where she studied the role motility plays as a virulence factor in oral pathogens. Currently, Dr. Polasko's research focuses on elucidating the mechanisms that drive benign prostate hyperplasia, which is the abnormal growth of the prostate and affects nearly 80% of men over eighty and can result in impaired urine storage and voiding as well as renal failure. She is a co-inventor on two patents and received UCLA's prestigious Distinguished Teaching Award for Teaching Assistants (2021).
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Marina Pouliadi
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
BioI am a Specialist Counselling Psychologist, with extensive experience in working with adults, adolescents, and children diagnosed with Eating Disorders. I have been trained in a variety of psychological approaches for the treatment of Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge-Eating Disorder, and other non-specified Eating Disorders, during my doctoral studies. My research interests lie within mechanisms of change in evidence-based treatments for this population. I am also investigating helpful and hindering treatment experiences of patients that receive first-line models for the treatment of Eating Disorders. As a Postdoctoral Scholar in the department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, I aim to explore different aspects of parental emotion regulation within the context of Family-Based Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa.
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Shirin Pourashraf
Postdoctoral Scholar, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy working is focused on building a 100 ps CTR pre-clinical partial ring TOF-PET scanner; specifically, by exploring, and designing high speed low noise/jitter instrumentation, and data acquisition.
I am also designing an scalable side-readout electronic to detect Cherenkov radiation and improve TOF resolution in PET detectors using BGO crystals. -
Monika Priyadarshini
Postdoctoral Scholar, Genetics
BioI obtained my PhD from the Biological and Environmental Science Division at King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST, Saudi Arabia) in 2021. I had the opportunity to work with Christian Frøkjær-Jensen on a fascinating research project focusing on the epigenetic regulation of germline genes and the transgenerational inheritance of silencing in C. elegans.
My passion lies in the field of epigenetics, synthetic and molecular biology, and protein biochemistry. I am deeply intrigued by the intricacies of genome organization and am dedicated to unraveling the "rules" that govern it. Additionally, I'm committed to dissecting the molecular and structural changes that take place within chromatin.
