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Christine Bui
Postdoctoral Medical Fellow, Cardiology
Fellow in Pediatrics - CardiologyCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsAlong with my internal medicine and pediatrics background, I have always been interested in palliative care and end of life. I would like to apply these interests to pediatric cardiology and adult congenital cardiology, as these patients often are critically or chronically ill, and would benefit from a palliative care perspective.
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Benedikt Geier
Postdoctoral Scholar, Infectious Diseases
BioB.Sc. Biology, Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU), Munich/Germany (2013)
M.Sc. Biology and bioimaging, Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU), Munich/Germany (2015)
Ph.D., Animal-Microbe Symbioses, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen/Germany (2020)
Benedikt joined the Amieva Lab from Germany in 2022. During his B.Sc. and M.Sc. programs in zoology, he became fascinated with 3D imaging approaches to study small animal microanatomy. He spent his PhD developing in situ imaging approaches to study deep-sea symbioses and fell in love with studying host-microbe interactions. In the Amieva Lab, Benedikt will advance his previously developed correlative chemical imaging techniques to resolve metabolic and cellular interactions that drive H. pylori pathogenesis in the gastric glands. -
Adriana Verenisse Gonzalez Sandoval
Postdoctoral Scholar, Human Gene Therapy
BioAdriana Gonzalez is a postdoctoral researcher, who is part of the Walter & Berry Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. Her research is related to gene therapy and chromatin organization, seeking for a better understanding of viral gene therapy mechanisms. Adriana holds a B.S. in Genomic Sciences from the National University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico and a Ph.D. in Genetics form the University of Basel, Switzerland. She is the author of several publications related to silent chromatin organization. Adriana is eager to learn new techniques and immerse into the field of AAV gene therapy and contribute to it.
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Noor A. Hussein
Postdoctoral Scholar, Human Gene Therapy
BioIam a pharmacologist scientist. My experience as a researcher has taught me to seek out new perspectives for exploration and discovery. As a dedicated biological and pharmacological researcher with over 7 years of experience with models of diseases such as cancer both in vitro and in vivo. During my masters and Ph.D. studies, I mastered lots of molecular biology techniques, including cell culture, cytotoxicity assays, western blot, quantitative PCR, immunofluorescence, flow cytometry. I utilized my skills to design experiments finding solutions to common problems in the biomedical field, especially cancer experimental and molecular therapeutics.
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Samuel Buck Johnson
Postdoctoral Scholar, Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI focus on the intersection between neuroscience and AI. I'm fascinated by the ways these fields can inform and accelerate one another. Currently, I'm applying convolutional neural networks to MRI data for the investigation of brain-behavior relationships. I believe that large pretrained neuroimaging models can significantly increase the leverage of small neuroimaging datasets.
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Alexander Kaiser
Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiology
BioAlexander D. Kaiser is an applied mathematician who researches modeling and simulation of heart mechanics. His doctoral work focused on the mitral valve. He currently works in the Stanford Cardiovascular Biomechanics Computation Laboratory, led by Alison Marsden, on modeling cardiac disease.
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Nicole Krentz
Postdoctoral Scholar, Endocrinology and Metabolism
BioNicole completed her PhD at the University of British Columbia under the supervision of Francis Lynn in 2018. Her PhD research focused on pancreas development and endocrine cell genesis using mouse embryos and human embryonic stem cell differentiation as models. In 2018, Nicole joined Anna Gloyn’s group at the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics at the University of Oxford. For her post-doctoral studies, Nicole is investigating the role of diabetes associated genes in pancreas development using genome-editing in human induced pluripotent stem cell models. In 2020, Nicole relocated to Stanford University where she will continue her post-doctoral research on the translation of genetic association signals for type 2 diabetes.
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Yunkyeong Lee
Postdoctoral Scholar, Endocrinology and Metabolism
BioYunkyeong earned her PhD degree under the supervision of Dr Keun Il Kim at Sookmyung Women's University in Seoul, Republic of Korea in February 2022. Her research has been focused on the role of an epigenetic regulator in the pathogenesis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) using a high-fat diet (HFD)-induced obese mice model. In addition, she has been studying the crosstalk between endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and autophagy. She is currently finalising her PhD projects and will be joining in Dr Anna L. Gloyn's Lab (Translational Genomics of Diabetes Lab) as a postdoctoral researcher from August 2022. She will be involved in projects investigating molecular mechanisms for pancreatic islet-cell dysfunction in type 2 diabetes (T2D). Her research goal is to expand our knowledge about the molecular mechanisms of some metabolic diseases including T2D and explore therapeutic breakthrough.
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Marina Magalhães
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neonatal and Developmental Medicine
BioMarina Magalhães, PhD is a nurse scientist and postdoctoral fellow at the Carmichael Lab in the Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine. Her overall research aims are to improve health outcomes for birthing people, women, and their infants. Her research areas include pregnancy and maternal health, neonatal intensive care, and inequities with an emphasis on their multilevel determinants and health outcomes. Her postdoctoral research training is focused on severe maternal morbidity with an emphasis on maternal nutrition, health care, social disadvantage, and health equity. Dr. Magalhães' doctoral research at the University of Florida examined nutritional support for preterm very low birth weight (VLBW) infants and strategies to support lactation among mothers of critically ill infants. Her dissertation assessed the use of a biomarker-based text messaging intervention for lactating parents of critically ill infants in the NICU to prolong lactation and breastfeeding duration.
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Karthik Menon
Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiology
BioKarthik Menon is a postdoctoral scholar in the Cardiovascular Biomechanics Computation Laboratory at Stanford University, advised by Alison Marsden. His current research involves the development of computational methods for accurate patient-specific cardiovascular blood flow simulations and uncertainty quantification. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 2021, where his doctoral work focused on the flow physics of fluid-structure interactions. His broad research interests include fluid mechanics, computational modeling and data-driven methods.
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Mir S Adil
Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiology
BioDr. Adil is a Postdoctoral Scholar at RabLab in the cardiopulmonary division. He has a PharmD from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad (India) and a PhD in Clinical & Experimental Therapeutics from University of Georgia. He has a pre-doctoral experience of three years as a Scientific Writer, Clinical Research Co-ordinator and Clinical Pharmacologist. He has also worked as a Research Pharmacologist at Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center during his PhD. He has served as a Consulting Editor for Dove Medical Press Journals and he has been serving as Editor, Editorial Board Member and Reviewer for several other journals. He has nearly 50 peer-reviewed publications to his name that include book chapters, review and research articles. Besides publications, he has reviewed more than 20 manuscripts for some reputed journals.
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Dhriti Nagar
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neonatal and Developmental Medicine
BioPremature birth is a leading cause of developmental and neuropsychiatric disorders in children. One of the factors causing these defects is lowered levels of available oxygen (hypoxia) in the newborn due to immature lungs. My research focuses on understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying hypoxia-induced developmental disorders of the nervous system due to preterm birth.
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Rofida Nofal
Postdoctoral Scholar, Stem Cell Transplantation
BioDr. Rofida Nofal is a physician scientist with special interest in benign hematology, immune-hematology and stem cell transplant. She is a postdoc scholar at the Czechowicz lab in the Stanford University’s Department of Pediatrics, Hematology, Oncology, Stem Cell Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine Division.
Dr. Nofal’s primary clinical interests are immune-hematological disorders, primary immune-deficiency/immune dysregulations disorders as well as non-malignant transplant and non-genotoxic conditioning. Her current research interests are in bone marrow failure syndromes focusing on Fanconi Anemia (FA); understanding the disease biology, the immune profile of patients with FA as well as determinants of disease severity, progression, and response to therapy.
Her current main research project at the Czechowicz lab addresses clonal hematopoiesis in patients with Fanconi Anemia, trying to understand leukemogenesis and identify good biomarkers for early detection of clonal evolution to inform treatment decisions in an effort to improve outcome of stem cell therapy in Fanconi Anemia. Other research projects she is involved in, include gene therapy and alternative donor therapy for Fanconi Anemia; addressing how therapy affects disease phenotype, leukemogenesis and stem cell biology and function.
Dr. Nofal completed a pediatric residency in the Children’s Hospital Zagazig university in Egypt, after which she worked as an assistant lecturer in the department of Pediatrics. During that time, she pursued specialty training in the Primary Immune Deficiency (PID) in Cairo University Children’s Hospital, where she developed her interests in immune-hematology, immune-deficiency and dysregulations. Dr. Nofal then moved to the US and completed a pediatric residency in St. John Hospital in MI where she continued to pursue her specialty interests during her rotations in the Comprehensive Immune-Hematology program in Mott Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor, the Diagnostic Immunology Lab in Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, and the BMT center in Children’s Hospital LA. Dr. Nofal then joined the pediatric hematology oncology program at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital with focus on immune-hematology, BMF syndromes, non-malignant and in-utero transplant. -
Luca Pegolotti
Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiology
BioLuca Pegolotti is a Postdoc in the Cardiovascular Biomechanics Computation Lab led by Prof. Alison Marsden. He is interested in data-driven model order reduction techniques for cardiovascular simulations. His areas of expertise include scientific computing, high-performance computing, and deep learning.
Luca Pegolotti completed a BCs in Mathematical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano in 2014 and a MSc in Computational Science and Engineering at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2017. He graduated with a PhD in Mathematics at EPFL in 2020 under the supervision of his PhD advisor, Prof. Simone Deparis. In his thesis, "Reduction techniques for PDEs built upon Reduced Basis and Domain Decomposition Methods with applications to hemodynamics", he focuses on projection-based model order reduction methods for cardiovascular flow. -
Martin Pfaller
Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiology
BioMartin Pfaller is a postdoc in the group of Prof. Alison Marsden's Cardiovascular Biomechanics Computation Lab. His work focuses on physics-based and data-driven computational models for cardiovascular fluid and solid dynamics. Applications include congenital and acquired cardiovascular diseases, specifically the growth and remodeling of cardiovascular tissue.
Martin graduated with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University of Munich in 2019, working with Prof. Wolfgang Wall. His research enhanced solid mechanics models of the heart by studying the interaction between the myocardium and the pericardium. He demonstrated how projection-based model order reduction could be used to speed up model personalization from patient data, such as cine MRI or blood pressure measurements. He also showed how simulations could enable patient-specific therapy planning of radiofrequency catheter ablation in atrial fibrillation. -
Shamma Shakila Rahman
Postdoctoral Scholar, Human Gene Therapy
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsImmunological pathophysiology of Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome
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Mahalakshmi Ramamurthy
Postdoctoral Scholar, Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics
BioI am specifically interested in the development of attentional mechanisms and its intersection with the development of reading ability (and therefore reading disability). I am broadly interested in understanding the basic mechanisms that are causally related to naturally occurring conditions, like amblyopia and dyslexia, and how understanding basic mechanisms can be implemented in effective remediation. In particular, Dyslexia interests me as a model to investigate the development and the intersection of visual attentional mechanisms in the development of reading. At Stanford, my research will focus on the role of visual attention in Dyslexia.
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Izabela Mauricio Rezende
Postdoctoral Scholar, Infectious Diseases
BioI have a B.S. in Biology, M.Sc. in Immunology and Infectious diseases, Ph.D. in Microbiology, and a broad background in virology/microbiology and molecular biology applied to viral infectious diseases. I have a vast knowledge of classical virology, molecular biology, phylogenetic analysis, serological, and molecular diagnosis. I am working on recent YF outbreaks, focusing on viral dynamics, ecology, diagnosis, and the investigation of virological, immunological, and clinical aspects during the course of infection. We have supported the hospital and Secretary of Health of Minas Gerais with some laboratory testing applied to diagnosis of YF, viral genotyping related to YF patients suspected to have adverse events following vaccination, and other analysis. We also have been working on dynamics of the outbreak, on the virological, epidemiological, and immunological aspects during the course of yellow fever. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we also supported the Brazilian Ministry of Health with the SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis in human samples and also in the investigation of the SARS-CoV-2 RNA in surfaces of density public areas of Belo Horizonte. Since Nov/2018 I had been an editor in the journal Docência do Ensino Superior (RDES / GIZ / UFMG) and in Jan/2020 I became Editor-in-Chief.
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Adam C Richie-Halford
Postdoctoral Scholar, Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics
BioAdam Richie-Halford is a postdoctoral scholar in the Division of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics at Stanford University and an affiliate of the eScience Institute at the University of Washington. He received his B.S. in engineering physics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, his M.S. in Physics from the California State University in Long Beach, and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Washington, where he performed large-scale quantum Monte Carlo simulations of systems encountered in nuclear theory. Along the way he also served as an officer in the Air Force and as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Kingdom of Morocco.
Currently, Adam works with Professor Jason Yeatman to develop new statistical learning techniques for the analysis of neuroimaging data and new browser-based technologies to assist deep phenotyping of dyslexia. He seeks to understand the biophysical properties of the brain’s white matter using large open datasets containing diffusion MRI images, such as the Human Connectome Project (HCP), the Healthy Brain Network (HBN) study, and the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study. He is also interested in developing open-source software tools to enable other scientists to analyze and share large datasets. Adam is a member of the Software and Data Carpentry communities. -
Ece Canan Sayitoglu
Postdoctoral Scholar, Stem Cell Transplantation
BioExperienced Postdoctoral Researcher with a demonstrated history of working with genetically modified immune cells. Skilled in Genome Editing/Crispr, Multi-color Flow Cytometry, Molecular Biology, Cell Culture and Immunotherapy.
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Priscila Ferreira Slepicka
Postdoctoral Scholar, Stem Cell Transplantation
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy postdoctoral research focuses on investigating innovative gene therapy strategies to improve stem cell transplantation in patients with pediatric malignant and non-malignant diseases.
