Deblina Banerjee, PhD

Sean graduated from University College Dublin (UCD) with a BSc in Pharmacology and from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) with a PhD in Physiology and Medical Physics. Sean use's a combination of in vivo, behavioral and molecular biology techniques to analyze the changes in the neonatal brain following hypoxic seizures. He is continuing in a similar line of research as a postdoc, focusing on interactions between drugs and seizures in producing long-term outcomes after early life exposure. When he’s not in the lab you will probably either find him wandering around the Lego store, watching cartoons with an Old Fashioned in hand.

Anna Matejko, PhD

Anna is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of Learning, working under the supervision of Dr. Guinevere Eden. She studies the neural development of reading and math skills in children with and without learning disabilities. Anna started her postdoc in January 2017 after completing her PhD in Psychology at the University of Western Ontario in Canada.

Susree Modepalli, PhD

Utsav Sharma, PhD

Caleb C. McKinney, PhD

Caleb C. McKinney, Ph.D. is the Assistant Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Training & Development. He oversees the Office of Career Strategy and Professional Development (CSPD) for Biomedical Graduate Education at Georgetown University. Dr. McKinney is a biomedical research scientist with a research career that has spanned over a decade, culminating in ten peer-reviewed publications. Dr. McKinney is a biomedical research scientist with a Ph.D. in microbiology. Following his postdoctoral fellowship at the NIH, Caleb joined the CSPD at Georgetown to develop career exploration and professional leadership training programs as well as provide individualized career-related assistance to BGE trainees seeking a wide range of biomedical careers.

Elizabeth Salm, PhD

Elizabeth Salm, Ph.D. is the Associate Director for Postdoctoral Development & Training Grant Support . directs programming around career and personal development for PhD students and postdoctoral fellows. She also maintains the Training Grant Support portfolio for the current and future federal training grants at BGE. Her interest in the support of research trainees began during her PhD training in the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (INP) at Yale University. While serving as Chair of the Yale Graduate Student Assembly, she observed the daily lives and outcomes of other graduate students across the university and saw many opportunities for improvement. Dr. Salm decided to address these interests in INP by developing a mentoring program to ease the transition of incoming students to graduate school and to support them in their exploration of future careers. Dr. Salm looks forward to helping PhD students and postdoctoral fellows at Georgetown determine and achieve their personal and professional goals.

Irene Sanchez Brualla, PhD

Daphne Guinn, PhD

Daphne was the chair of the Symposium Committee from Summer 2017-Summer 2018. Daphne began her postdoc in Regulatory Science in August 2016 after completing her PhD in Biomedical Sciences at The Ohio State University. She is now a postdoctoral fellow at the FDA.

Alexandra Taraboletti, PhD

Alex is a T32 postdoctoral fellow in Tumor Biology, working under Dr. Albert J. Fornace. She applies collective Omics data to the study of radiation oncology, with a particular interest in the central nervous system. Alex started her postdoc in August 2017 after finishing her PhD in Chemistry. She is an artist and an space nerd. For more information about her science and art check out her website!