The Postdoc Symposium is our annual opportunity to recognize and showcase the important contributions of postdocs to the university’s research and teaching mission. This annual event is sponsored by the GUPDA and the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs.
Click here to read about our most recent symposium held on Wednesday, April 23, 2025.
Check out the photos from this event.
On April 25, 2025, we held our annual research symposium to give us the opportunity to showcase our research, network, and build our community. This year we identified the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and its fast spreading to our daily life as a major and imminent groundbreaking changing game for humanity. We have been given the privilege to host Dr. Nawar Shara as our official 2024 GU Postdoctoral research symposium keynote speaker, who will talk more about this specific topic and its impact in research and our career.
The Oral Presentations featured the following 6 speakers:
Dr. Shuaijun Li , Department of Physics
Dr. Maria Snegovaya, CERES
Dr. Barwendé Sané, Environmental Justice Program/The Earth Commons
Dr. Jiaxiang Tao, Oncology
Dr. Willian Lazarini Lopes, Department of Pharmacology & Physiology
Dr. Veerupaxagouda Patil, Department of biochemistry and Molecular biology and Cellular Biology
Our Keynote Speaker :
Dr Nawar Shara
Associate Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University Director of the Center of Biostatistics, Informatics, Data Science, MedStar Health Research Institute
Founding director of AI CoLab
The afternoon session presented 12 posters from the following fellows:
Katarina E AuBuchon, Department of Oncology
Justin Demmerle, Department of Oncology
Nithya Gajendran, Department of Oncology
Sadaf Haderzdeh, GUMC
Maisha Huq, Department of Oncology
Meghali Joshi, Department of Oncology
Juntae Kwon, Department of Oncology
Rahul Patil, Department of biochemistry and Molecular biology and Cellular Biology
Danyel Smith, Department of Oncology, Cancer Prevention and Control
Manasa Suresh, Department of Oncology
Oswaldo Villena, Earth Commons Institute
Jordan Walter, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
For more details, read out Abstract Handbook.
Our Annual Postdoc Symposium:
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