Graduate Research Symposium 2022
“Breaking Down Barriers”
TODAY — APRIL 9th 9AM to 5PM EST, 2022
Learn more about our 2022 Symposium:
Keynote speaker and panelists.
2022 Keynote by Dr. Elham Azizi.
Elham joined Columbia in 2020 as the Herbert and Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Cancer Data Research in the Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics and an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering. She is also affiliated with the Department of Computer Science, Data Science Institute, and the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center. Elham holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, and an MSc in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Bioinformatics from Boston University. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Dana Pe'er Lab at Columbia University and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Her multidisciplinary research utilizes novel machine learning techniques and single-cell genomic and imaging technologies to study the dynamics and circuitry of interacting cells in the tumor microenvironment. She is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, Tri-Institutional Breakout Prize for Junior Investigators, NIH NCI Pathway to Independence Award, an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship, and an IBM Best Paper Award at the New England Statistics Symposium.
Student Research Presentations.
Our annual research symposium allows graduate students from every STEM departments to showcase their research, either by giving a talk or a poster presentation. Awards will be presented to outstanding student speakers, and presented during the symposium.
Networking.
Symposium sponsors and job recruiters will be attending our all-virtual networking session, where students will be able to speak directly with company representatives spanning diverse career paths.
Companies that will join our 2022 networking session to be announced soon.
Our 2022 Panelists
“Breaking Down Barriers”
Jenna M. Lawrence, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor, Environmental Science, Barnard College
Jenna Lawrence is a behavioral ecologist and conservation biologist. Her research has primarily involved chasing monkeys around a Peruvian rainforest, and as a member of the Columbia University faculty she has taught in New York, Jordan, and the Dominican Republic. Her other appointments include the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology; Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences; and M.S. Program in Sustainability Management.
Daniela De Silva, PhD
Professor, Mathematics, Barnard College
Daniela De Silva joined the faculty of Barnard in 2007. Formerly, she was a member of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley. Professor De Silva has also taught at John Hopkins, MIT, and the University of Naples "Federico II". Professor De Silva's primary research area is partial differential equations. She is particularly interested in the regularity theory for free boundary/phase transition problems.
Lesley-Ann Giddings, PhD
Assistant Professor, Chemistry, Smith College
Lesley-Ann Giddings is a natural products biochemist interested in: 1) bioprospecting extreme environments (e.g., acid rock drainage) for new bioactive agents produced by microbes; as well as 2) understanding the enzymology behind the assembly of these novel pharmacophores. Her lab approaches these problems by using culture-dependent and culture independent methods (i.e., next-generation sequencing) to identify secondary metabolites. She also uses basic biochemical techniques, including protein purification and enzyme kinetics, to characterize enzymes involved in secondary metabolic pathways.
Robyn Sanderson, PhD
Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania
Robyn Sanderson is an assistant professor in the Physics & Astronomy department and an Associate Research Scientist in the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute in Manhattan. Her research focuses on ways to infer the dark matter distribution in galaxies by studying the orbits of their stars. Dr. Sanderson completed her Ph.D. in Physics at MIT in 2011, spent three years as a postdoc at the Kapteyn Institute in the Netherlands, and held an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship at Columbia, NYU, and then Caltech before joining UPenn and Flatiron.
Our 2022 Sponsors
