The Speakers

Dr. Gounari focuses on elucidating epigenetic and transcription networks that control T cell development and shape a healthy and balanced T cell immunity. Her research goal is to understand the molecular basis of physiological T cell development and provide methods for targeted treatment of diseases. With years of experience as a faculty and a researcher, her expertise in the field of immunology and medicine will be highly insightful.

Dr. Khazaie is a director of Federation of Clinical Immunology Society at Mayo Clinic at present and is a member of various editorial boards. His research is focused on regulatory T cells and microbiota and their role in cancer. The ultimate goal of his studies is to achieve better outcomes for cancer patients and to improve health space through manipulation of immune system. 

Marely graduated from ASU in 2016 with a doctorate in Chemistry. She was placed soon in the Intel Corporation in the R & D sector where her job is as a Packaging Engineer. She has been in her current role for over 4.5 years now and has rich experiences to share with us about her journey from a grad student to an Industrial Engineer. 

Chelsea completed her Ph.D. in Chemistry from ASU in 2015. Thereafter, she joined Mesa Community College as an adjunct faculty. A few months after her teaching experience, she came back to ASU as a General and Organic chemistry instructor. After a year, she was placed in Intel as a Sr. Quality and Reliability Engineer and then an Industrial Engineer. Having spent 6 years as an industrial engineer now, she has garnered experience from both academia and industry.

Being an alumnus of ASU from the 2022 batch. Subhadeep has recently started his job at Salio Therapeutics as a Formulation Scientist. Apart from his job, he plays an active role as a STEM educator and mentor. His journey from a nanobiotechnologist and polymer chemist to a formulation scientist post-pandemic will provide insights into job-finding opportunities as well as building scientific networking.

Prof. Abhishek graduated in Molecular Microbiology from UWM in 2013. He also got interested in Marine and Physical Biology as a student and scientist which led him to receive the NIH K99 fellows award. After completing his post-doc at Harvard, he joined ASU as an Assistant Professor in 2019 in the School of Life Sciences where his research interests encompass biology, physics and computer science to solve microbiome and microbial systems biology.

After completing his Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from UIUC in 2006, Prof. Taras became a post-doctoral research associate at UIUC where his focus was to understand proton transfer using quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical multiresolution methods. Having gathered rich experiences he built his own lab at UIUC focusing on cell signaling, and understanding protein and membrane dynamics in complex environments quantitatively.