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GUPDA Annual Postdoctoral Research Showcase Symposium
GUPDA Annual Postdoctoral Research Showcase Symposium
Monday April 26, 2019
Monday April 26, 2019
2pm - 5:30pm
Med-Dent SW107
Our Spring Symposium is a chance to showcase Postdoctoral Fellows at Georgetown.
Schedule
Schedule
- Registration : 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
- Welcome Address: 2:00 pm - 2:15 pm
- Oral Presentations: 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm
- 2:15 pm - 2:35 pm: Dr. Shaila Mudambi, Georgetown University Medical Campus, Oncology
- 2:35 pm - 2:55 pm: Dr. Mansa Gurjar, Georgetown University Main Campus, Biology
- 2:55 pm - 3:15 pm: Dr. Dongyu Zhang, Georgetown University Medical Campus, Oncology
- Break: 3:15 pm - 3:30 pm
- Poster Session and Reception: 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Speakers Showcase
Speakers Showcase
Dr. Shaila Mudambi
Dr. Shaila Mudambi
Shaila is a post-doctoral fellow in the labs of Dr. Eric Glasgow and Dr. Stephen Byers at the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. Shaila received her PhD from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Centre in 2018 and has extensive background in cancer biology and drug development. Her long-term research goal is to advance therapies for cancer through interdisciplinary research and collaboration. Currently she is working on improving personalized medicine by using patient-derived cancer xenografts in zebrafish embryos (Zevatars) and developing a ‘humanized’ zebrafish to study cancer
Dr. Mansa Gurjar
Dr. Mansa Gurjar
Mansa is a postdoctoral fellow in the Biology department of Georgetown University working with Dr. Thomas Coate. The Coate lab is a neuro-developmenta biology lab focusing on the development of mammalian cochlea using a mouse model system. Dr. Gurjar’s current project focuses on a gene called Pou3f4 that is known to be mutated in X-linked hereditary deafness. Mansa completed er Ph.D. at Tata Memorial Center that is well known as the largest cancer hospital and research center in India under the mentorship of Dr. Sorab Dalal. Her grad school work focused on the effects of loss of desmosomal cell-cell adhesion in colon cancers. As a college student, she worked as a research assistant and contributed to a paper studying cell cycle regulation. Mansa is very motivated to continue her career in basic research and hopes to continue finding opportunities to stay in this field.
Dr. Dongyu Zhang
Dr. Dongyu Zhang
Dongyu is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Oncology at Georgetown University. He received training in epidemiology and clinical medicine with a focus on cancer epidemiology and prevention. Specifically, his focus is cancer screening, nutritional/metabolic cancer risk factors, and evidence-based medicine. Within the past 2 years, he participated in different research projects as research assistant and published several peer-reviewed manuscripts as the first author. Currently, he is working with Dr. Dejana Braithwaite at Georgetown University in areas of breast, cervical, and lung cancer research. In future, he hope he can be a research faculty member in areas of cancer research.
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