A particularly chilly morning here in Boston today, but if you’re enjoying the sun in San Diego for #BMES2025, don’t miss Dr. Leyla Esfandiari, Ph.D.’s talk on our work — highlighting the final piece of my thesis!🧪
Happy to share that I successfully defended my PhD last week! Grateful for the support, mentorship, and collaborations that shaped my graduate journey.
Looking forward to joining @peytonlab.bsky.social at Tufts University Biomedical Engineering as a postdoctoral fellow this fall!
Beautiful (and surprisingly sunny) day visiting the Hisey lab @NorthwesternBME by the lake!! 🌤️🌊 @colinhisey.bsky.social
Nature interviewed scientists who chose to complete their PhDs off the beaten path about the reasons they chose to work away from big-city life and how they make it work. #Academicsky 🧪
Now more than ever, I'm excited to announce the launch of the MGH - American Cancer Society HEROIC Scholars Post-Baccalaureate Training Program!
Grateful to the ACS's Diversity In Cancer Research Program for the funding and resolute commitment to this program!
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Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️
So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality?
We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary
#WomeninSTEM
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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As someone who has actively enjoyed SNEV initiatives as a newbie to the EV field over the last two years, it is wonderful to see ISEV and SNEV coming together and plan such an exciting project. Kudos to everyone involved in making this happen!!
Hey folks! I got a tattoo of my beloved PIEZO ion channel on my arm! Now I can show how they activate (flatten) under pressure by flexing—Will add a bit of performance art to my science talks 🧪🧠.
Would love to be added, please 🙋🏻♀️
Starting off on 🦋 with a recent highlight @uofcincy.bsky.social (briefly) talking about the why, what, and how of my PhD journey 🧬
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I’d love to be added, please!