Kira Oskirko - Bio-X Undergraduate Fellow
Supported by: Bio-X
Mentor: Ian Gotlib, Psychology
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Xiaolin Zheng
Talk Title: Efficient H2O2 Production Via Two-Electron Water Oxidation Reaction Via Mott-Schottky Junction Effect
Event: 247th Electrochemical Society Meeting
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Joseph Wu
Talk Title: MicroRNA profiling of hESC differentiation to a cardiac fate
Event: International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) Annual Meeting 2008 (PA)
Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Judith Frydman
Talk Title: Linking the conformational landscape of Huntingtin aggregation species with neuronal toxicity reveals a requirement of the polyQ-flanking regions for proteostasis protection in Huntington’s disease
Event: Protein Homeostasis in Health & Disease 2016
Dr. Konstantina Stankovic is a board-certified, fellowship-trained otolaryngologist-head and neck surgeon. She is the Bertarelli Foundation Professor and Chair of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery. She is also a professor, by courtesy, of Neurosurgery.
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Talk Title: Making and unmaking polymers via ATRP principles
Event: ACS Fall 2025 - Kostas received the PMSE Future Faculty Award at the symposium. This award recognizes 20 early-career researchers in polymer science and engineering.
Dr. Kristan Staudenmayer received her medical degree at the University of Texas at Southwestern Medical School in 1999, and completed her residency in General Surgery at Parkland Hospital in 2006. During her post-graduate training, she conducted NIH T32-funded research at Harborview Hospital evaluating the effects of innate immunity on trauma. She obtained further training in Trauma and Surgical Critical at San Francisco General Hospital, completing her training in 2008. She was subsequently double-boarded in General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care.