Kanishka Sikligar

Great meeting Prof Indrajeet Sharma of University of Oklahoma . Thanks Prof Michael Harmata for inviting him.

Another book for my fellow trainees that has been really helpful to meet challenges of the present and let go the past with the “Let Them” strategy by my favorite Mel Robbins !

Highly recommend this truly life changing book to my fellow trainees. You got this!

It was great meeting Prof Andrew Ludlow of University of Michigan and hear him talk about wonderful cancer research in his lab. Appreciate you for meeting with trainees and sharing your insights. Thanks MU NextGen for having him here.

It was a pleasure to be a panelist in the New Graduate Student Orientation Session organized by the @MizzouGradEd . I remember sitting on the other side, full of dreams but not surely aware of the challenges. Students love these sessions.

My amazing student Jessica Edoho from Fall 2018 got into MD program of the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine l! Congrats girl, so proud of you!

Glad to have a copy of the freshly out book “Labwork to Leadership” by Jen Heemstra of Washington University in St. Louis

It was a pleasure and an honor to attend for the American Chemical Society Postdoc to Faculty (P2F) Workshop.Thanks to my mentor Carolyn Anderson for allowing me to go here and placing the needs of trainees ahead of many things. Thank you Faculty mentors and my amazing postdoctoral trainees.

𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲, 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 “𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑦” 𝐛𝐲 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟 Kevin R. McClure 𝐨𝐟 University of North Carolina Wilmington.

Honored to receive the Audience Choice Award at the Gerald Hoxworth MD and Frances Hoxworth Excellence in Radiology Award by the Mizzou Radiology. Thanks to my mentors Carolyn Anderson and Lixin Ma. Thanks Prof. Ai-Ling Lin, Prof. Mai-Lan Ho, Dr Tallisa Altes, judges, audience, and MU Radiology. 🧿

Honored to receive the Best Poster Award at the Ellis Fischel Cancer Center Research Day a few weeks ago. It was an amazing conference with great speakers and vendor exhibits. Folks in the mid-west region, highly recommend attending this research day.

I am at the 26th International Symposium on Radiopharmaceutical Sciences #isrs2025. Please come find me! I will be presenting a poster (P-281) on Monday at 5.30 PM.

𝘜𝘱 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝗔 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘣𝘺 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯
#pedagogy #HigherEd

Huge shoutout to my wonderful students Kelsey Godier from Spring 2017 for getting matched at St. Louis Children's Hospital and Lucie Trokey from Summer 2019 for being matched at University of Missouri-Columbia, School of Medicine

My wonderful student Selby Chipman from Fall 2022 won the Outstanding Biomedical Engineering Junior award at the University of Missouri College of Engineering award banquet.
Congrats Selby! 🎈🎊

It was a pleasure to see Jim Rau and Colleen Rau of Azure Biosystems . We had some great conversations. Jim and Colleen shared their valuable life insights with me that I will always cherish.

Congratulations Dr Peggy Birikorang for successfully defending your PhD from Prof. W. Barry Edwards Lab. As your
Graduate Teaching Orientation mentor, still remember meeting you in your first year and saw the spark in you to succeed. So proud of you girl!!!!

Great meeting Prof. Kevin Moeller of Washington University in St. Louis Chemistry. Thanks for having him Prof. Sachin Handa

It was great meeting Prof. Carol Korzeniewski of Texas Tech University with Prof Gary Baker & Sheila Baker, Ph.D. Great work on confocal Raman microscopy on redox active polymers.

Wow!

My amazing student from summer 2019 Dr Lucie Trokey successfully finished her medical school at the University of Missouri-Columbia, School of Medicine ! Congrats! So proud of you!

Great meeting Prof Kun Yang of The University of Texas at Austin. Thanks Prof Kent Gates for having him here. University of Missouri-Columbia Chemistry.

Up next is 𝑨𝒄𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒂 𝑵𝒆𝒙𝒕, the future of higher education by Bryan Alexander.

It was great to host a session on being an effective Laboratory Teaching Assistant at the Graduate Teaching Orientation's small group discussion organized by T4LC University of Missouri
Thanks for the support Bethany Stone

Always pleasure meeting one of my favorites Prof. Patrícia M. Ribeiro Pereira of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and hear her talk on therapeutic of breast cancer.
Ellis Fischel Cancer Center

Truly a fan moment for me! My favorite self-help author Jason VanRuler, LPC-MH, LMHC, CSAT-S sent me an autographed book of his “Get Past Your Past”, exciting book so far. Thank you Jason for such a wonderful new Year present. Highly recommend this Amazon Bestseller!

2024 was meeting so many people that have inspired me to do better science. Thank you Universe and my postdoctoral mentor Prof. Carolyn Anderson for allowing me to meet these scientists. May this year bring all the successes to everyone. Cheers to science!!! 🧿

Holiday luncheon with Prof. Lixin Ma & Prof. Ping Yu

Congratulations to my wonderful former student Madalyn M. Roller from Fall 2018 for getting her Master in Physician Assistant Studies.