Jordan Lewandowski is a developmental biologist who is interested in understanding how regions of the genome that are devoid of protein-coding genes can contribute to human development and disease. The goal of his research is to better understand how our non-coding genome contributes to the etiology of human disease and to provide opportunities for better therapies and/or disease prevention. He … Read More

Sylvia Guillory is a PhD candidate at the University of Massachusetts Boston and is currently working with Dr. Zsuzsa Kaldy in the Developmental and Brain Sciences program. Her research has focused on understanding information processing that occurs in working memory, the role that selective attention plays in this process during infancy and childhood, and how these interactions affect the quantity … Read More

Tyler Gibson is a postdoctoral fellow working in the Eaton-Peabody Laboratories at Massachusetts Eye and Ear. His current research focuses on studying the genetic and epigenetic cues that drive the development of sensory hair cells in the inner ear and whether these cues could be harnessed to coax the inner ear in adults to generate new hair cells. To that … Read More

Shiran Ferber received her Ph.D. in Physiology and Pharmacology from the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University in 2015. Her research focused on developing polymer therapeutics and theranostic probes for cancer diagnosis and treatment. She is currently a postdoctoral associate at the laboratory of Prof. Robert Langer at the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. … Read More

Ahmed Fazly received his PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN in 2011. He then completed his initial postdoctoral training at University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, where his work resulted in the discovery of several promising antifungal drug candidates. After a hiatus from research, teaching high school chemistry and biology at a … Read More

Angela Early is a postdoctoral fellow in the Malaria Group at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. A population geneticist, she looks at the genetic differences across individual malaria parasites to understand how these parasites interact with the immune system of the human host. Before joining the Broad, Angela received her PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Cornell … Read More

Ester Caffarel-Salvador received her Ph.D. in Pharmacy from Queen’s University Belfast in 2014. Her research focused on the development of hydrogel-forming microneedles for transdermal therapeutic drug monitoring as an alternative to blood extraction. After completing her Ph.D., Ester collaborated with world leading pharmaceutical companies (L’ÓREAL, Lohmann Therapy Systems) in developing microneedles for transdermal drug delivery. Ester is currently a postdoctoral … Read More

Alison Brown’s research interests focus on public health nutrition and the development of culturally appropriate nutrition interventions.  She is currently pursuing her doctorate in food policy and nutrition at Tufts University’s Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, where her research explores how the diversity among Blacks relates to dietary quality and hypertension risk.  Other areas of interest include wellness … Read More

Alexandra Boussommier-Calleja is a postdoctoral fellow at Massachussetts Institute of Technology, in Prof. Kamm’s laboratory, that is joint between the Mechanical and Bio-engineering department. Alexandra completed her biomedical engineering studies first at Ecole Polytechnique Federale of Lausanne (Switzerland) for her Bachelor and at Imperial College London (United Kingdom) for her Master. She pursued her doctorate studies at Imperial College London, … Read More

Stephen D. Alkins is a doctoral candidate in the Neuroscience Program with a concentration in Quantitative Biology at Brandeis University, and a 2016 Neuroscience Scholar Program Fellow through the Society for Neuroscience. He holds a Master of Science in Neuroscience from Brandeis University and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Morehouse College. His research focuses on synaptic plasticity and … Read More