Symposium - 2022
GUPDA Annual Postdoctoral Research Showcase Symposium
Thursday May 5, 2022
10am - 5:30pm
Virtual and Pre-Clinical Science Building
Our Spring Symposium is a chance to showcase Postdoctoral Fellows at Georgetown.
Schedule
Oral Presentations: 10 am - 12:30 pm
10 am: Dr. Ankita Gangotra, Georgetown University Main Campus, Physics and Science, Technology and International Affairs
10:20 am: Dr. Anne Olazabal Herrero, Georgetown University Medical Campus, Oncology
10:40 am: Dr. Nathan Wycoff, McCourt School of Public Policy, Massive Data Institute
11 am: Dr. Nour Shobaki, Georgetown University Medical Campus, Oncology
11:30 am: Dr. Azadeh Mazloom, Georgetown University Main Campus, Physics
11:50 am: Dr. Hwa Yeong Wang, Georgetown University Main Campus, East Asian Languages and Cultures
12:10 pm: Dr. Juntae Kwon, Georgetown University Medical Center, Oncology
Break: 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Poster Session: 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Reception: 4:30 pm
Speakers Showcase
Dr. Ankita Gangotra
Dr. Ankita Gangotra is a postdoctoral research fellow who holds a joint fellowship (a first of its kind at Georgetown) in the School of Foreign Service and the Department of Physics at Georgetown. She is currently working with Associate Professor Joanna Lewis and Professor Emanuela Del Gado researching the science and policy of low carbon construction materials. Her most recent work looks at the readily available technology and policy options for upgrading low-carbon cement production in the United States. In 2022 she was chosen to be a Career Mentoring Fellow for the American Physical Society.
Dr. Anne Olazabal Herrero
Dr. Anne Olazabal Herrero focuses in the area of genomic instability and bone marrow failure, understanding the role of RNA metabolism in bone marrow failure-related syndromes. The major goal of her research is to understand the molecular mechanisms that regulate hematopoiesis and genotoxicity in Fanconi anemia and other inherited bone marrow failure disorders, including dyskeratosis congenita (DC), Diamond-Blackfan anemia (DBA), and Shwachman-Diamond syndrome (SDS). She conducted her PhD at the University of the Basque Country (Spain), under the supervision of Dr. Rodriguez, trying to elucidate critical aspects of the function and regulation of USP1 deubiquitinase, a key enzyme in the regulation of the Fanconi anemia pathway, suggesting new avenues for the development of USP1-directed therapies. Then, in 2019, She started her Postdoctoral training in the lab of Dr. Kupfer at Yale University and Georgetown University. She has been working on a project focused on understanding the role of splicing factors and the Fanconi anemia pathway in R-loops. This first work has established relationship between the splicing factor SRSF1 and the FA pathway, as well as showed their simultaneous implication in the metabolism of deleterious R-loops.
Dr. Nathan Wycoff
Dr. Nathan Wycoff is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the McCourt School's Massive Data Institute. He is part of the Forced Migration team, developing Bayesian model selection techniques applied to understanding and forecasting mass movement of people forced to migrate.
Dr. Nour Shobaki
Nour Shobaki PharmD, PhD, is an Immuno-Oncology postdoctoral fellow at the Georgetown University School of Medicine. She first trained as a clinical pharmacist and obtained her PharmD degree at An-Najah National University in Palestine. Upon graduation, she was awarded a MEXT scholarship from the Government of Japan to pursue her master’s degree in pharmaceutical science at Hokkaido University. Dr. Shobaki went on to earn her PhD in pharmaceutical science at Hokkaido University where she focused on developing drug delivery systems (e.g. lipid nanoparticles) to target macrophages for cancer immunotherapy. For her postdoctoral work, Dr. Shobaki joined the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, WA, where she studied tumor macrophages in humanized mice models. She next joined the Georgetown University School of Medicine where she currently works with Dr. Samir Khleif on studying T-cells in the tumor-microenvironment aiming to develop T-cell based cancer immunotherapy
Dr. Azadeh Mazloom
Dr. Azadeh Mazloom got her PhD at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS) in Zanjan, Iran and the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), Innsbruck, Austria. She moved forward in her career with a first postdoctoral position at: University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland Postdoc: Later on, she started her postdoctoral fellowship at The Freericks group in the Department of Physics at Georgetown University.
Dr. Hwa Yeong Wang
Dr. Hwa Yeong Wang is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Georgetown University in the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures. She earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture at the State University of New York at Binghamton in 2018. Her research focuses on ancient Chinese and Korean Confucianism and the dialogue between Confucianism and feminism, along with women’s history and literature in pre-modern Korea.
Dr. Juntae Kwon
Dr. Juntae Kwon is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University. He received a Ph.D. from Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea. He started his first postdoctoral training in the NCI-CCR’s Experimental Immunology Branch and joined in Han lab at Georgetown University in 2019. He studied the role of DDX3X in dsRNAs-derived innate immune signaling during his first year. His research focuses on the function of USP13, a deubiquitinating enzyme, in ovarian and lung cancer development. He is currently investigating mechanisms of USP13 amplification and its substrates in lung cancer using genetically engineered mouse model.
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