Normalizing Struggle: Effective Mentoring for Doctoral Students

Sponsored by WISE Ventures, Office of Faculty Development, Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education, and Bio-X.

JULIE POSSELT, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

This WISE Research Roundtable is one in a series of discussions with those whose research illuminates paths to advance equity in scientific and technical fields.

Faculty mentoring is a durable structure within doctoral education that facilitates intellectual growth, professional socialization, and progressive independence. This presentation will share findings from research focused on PhD students from marginalized backgrounds in science and engineering programs that, though located in top research universities, enrolled significantly higher shares of women or students of color than are found on average in those disciplines. Posselt finds clear patterns in how students conceptualize faculty support, associated with specific mentoring tactics that contributed to their persistence and well-being.

Stanford Bio-X Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Pre-Seminar

R&D Career Panel: Industry Insights & Scientific Careers Path in Biotech

Join us for a career panel which will include 4 industry scientists.

Stanford Bio-X Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Pre-Seminar

JIAN QIN, DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Attend Dr. Qin's pre-seminar presentation virtually via Zoom to learn more about Dr. Arup Chakraborty's seminar, "How to Hit Highly Mutable Pathogens Where It Hurts", to be held Thursday, April 30th.

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CANCELED: Stanford bio-X Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Seminar

A video recording of a similar talk from Dr. Arup Chakraborty is available online here.

AARON GITLER, DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS

Attend Dr. Gitler's pre-seminar presentation virtually via Zoom to learn more about Dr. Nancy Bonini's seminar, "Genetic Insight into Neurodegenerative Disease from Drosophila", to be held Thursday, April 9th.

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NANCY BONINI, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

The Bonini lab specializes in using the genetically tractable model organism, Drosophila, as a tool to understand the molecular basis of disease and disorder of the brain, with a particular focus on degenerative processes including ALS/FTD, TBI and aging. They implement cutting-edge genetic, molecular and cellular approaches to develop and characterize models of these processes to study their molecular basis, with an emphasis on potential translatability to clinical improvement.

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This and other Stanford Bio-X seminars and events will be conducted virtually over Zoom. Please join the meeting with the information on the webpage and mute your computer's audio if needed.

Stanford bio-X Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Seminar

YI ZHANG, HARVARD UNIVERSITY

The neuronal heterogeneity and complex connections of the brain reward system prevented a deeper understanding of the drug addiction mechanisms. The study Dr. Zhang will present provides a broadly applicable strategy for understanding the molecular, cellular and circuitry mechanism of drug addiction and other psychiatric diseases.

Stanford Bio-X Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Pre-Seminar

XIAOKE CHEN, DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY

Attend Dr. Chen's pre-seminar presentation to learn more about Dr. Yi Zhang's seminar, "Understanding drug addiction by classification and characterization of cell types of the brain reward system", to be held Thursday, March 5th.

Stanford Bio-X Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Pre-Seminar

OVIJIT CHAUDHURI, DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Attend Dr. Chaudhuri's pre-seminar presentation to learn more about Dr. Kenneth Yamada's seminar, "Dynamics of 3D Cell Migration and Organogenesis", to be held Thursday, February 20th.

Stanford bio-X Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Seminar

KENNETH YAMADA, NIH NIDCR

Dr. Kenneth Yamada's group's overall research goals are to discover novel mechanisms and regulators of cell interactions with the extracellular matrix and their roles in craniofacial development and disease pathogenesis. The mechanobiology underlying cell migration, spatially regulated deposition of matrix, and sculpting of initially unorganized cells into complex branched organs are being characterized and experimentally manipulated using mouse embryonic organ culture and 3D human cell and spheroid models. These studies provide unexpected new insights into the dynamic forces and specific molecules involved in 3D cell migration and the remodeling of epithelial cells into 3D embryonic tissue architecture.