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Corporate
Sponsorship Co-Chair: Peggy Wallace |
| Peggy Wallace, the founder of Making Conversation LLC., is a graduate of University of Pennsylvania/Wharton School and Boston University School of Law. With over 25 years business experience as a corporate attorney, fundraiser and financial services sales consultant, Peggy has a first-hand appreciation of the value of making conversation and positive networking, while being authentic and enthusiastically showing one's own unique personality.
Peggy has presented to scientists, post-docs and graduate students at Burnham, LIAI, Salk, SDSU, TSRI, UCSD, and AWIS members. Peggy provides interview preparation and communication skills coaching for adults and teens. Peggy, an AWIS member since 2004, has recently become the co-chair of the San Diego chapter corporate sponsorship committee
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Corporate Sponsorship Co-Chair: Patricia Ryan. |
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Patricia Ryan received her B.S. from UW-Madison in 2002. Her undergraduate research projects included studying pea aphid wing development and researching blowfish reproduction in Mexico. Patricia is presently pursuing a Ph.D. in Biology at UCSD where her research focuses on elucidating the mechanism of anthrax toxin entry into cells. An AWIS-SD member since 2005, she is currently the co-char of the Corporate Sponsorship committee.
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Events
Co-Chair: Kristine Briedis |
| Contact Kristine by clicking here.
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Events Co-Chair: Cynthia Shuman |
| Contact Cynthia by clicking here. |
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Gala 2008 Chair: Janet White |
| Janet received her Bachelors degree in Chemistry from Cambridge University in the UK. She then worked for almost ten years as a chemist in SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals R&D before completing her MBA degree and switching to a career in management consulting within the pharmaceutical industry. She is currently Director of Business Development at SGX Pharmaceuticals. Prior to that, Janet held several Director-level positions at Pfizer's R&D Center in La Jolla. Janet served as Chapter President during 2004 and 2005 and has been active in AWIS since 2001, first as a speaker and President Elect for the Central Jersey Chapter, and has served on numerous committees in AWIS San Diego, including as co-chair of the 2005 WIB Conference Planning Committee and co-chair of the 2006 Gala Planning Committee. Email her by clicking here. |
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2007 Women in bioScience Co-Chair: Huong Huynh |
| Huong Huynh is the Program Coordinator in the Office of Postdoctoral and Graduate Training at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research (La Jolla, CA), where she is responsible for professional and career development training of postdoctoral scientists and graduate students. She started this administrative post after completing 3 1/2 years of postdoctoral training, studying the localization and role of a novel, intracellular protein tyrosine phosphatase. Huong received her PhD in pharmacology from Loma Linda University, where she was an active member of the Student Chapter of the American Society of Pharmaceutical and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) and the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). She remains an active member of the National Postdoc Association (NPA), the Burnham Science Network (the institute’s
postdoc association), Sigma Xi, and the Association of Women in Science (AWIS) – San Diego chapter. Contact Huong by clicking here. |
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2007 Women in bioScience Co-Chair: Karin Zeh, Ph.D. |
| Karin received her Ph.D. in biology from the University of Heidelberg in Germany before accepting a Postdoctoral position at The Burnham Institute in San Diego. After working as a Scientist for biotechnology companies in and outside of San Diego she now holds a position as a Project Manager in Drug Development at a local start-up company. An active AWIS member since 2001, she was a founding member of the Strategy Sessions workshop series and served on this committee as Co-Chair. Formerly Karin has been Co-Chair of the 2005 WIB Speaker Committee and Board Secretary. She currently is Co-Chair of the 2007 WIB Committee, Board President and an active member of the Corporate Sponsorship and Membership Committees. Contact Karin by clicking here. |
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Job
Board Manager and Corporate Sponsorship Co-Chair: Lili Chen, Ph.D. |
| Lili is a DoD Prostate Cancer Research Fellow at Burnham Institute for Medical Research. She is interested in understanding intricate cell death regulation mechanisms and how to apply the acquired knowledge to combat diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. She earned her B.S. in Biochemistry from Jilin University, China, and her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from University of California, Davis. She conducted her first postdoctoral research on studies of genomic regulatory networks underlying sea urchin embryonic development at California Institute of Technology. While working at Caltech, she realized that “having a PhD” is not enough, and started to be actively involved in the career development committee at Caltech Postdoctoral Association. She is the chair of career development committee of Burnham Science Network
(Burnham’s postdoctoral association). She is also an active member of Sino-American Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Professional Association. Lili joined AWIS in 2005 and served on the sponsorship committee for Women in Biosciences conference 2007. As the job board manager, Lili coordinates communication with local companies that would like to post career opportunities through the AWIS Job Board. If you would
like to post a job on the AWIS Job Board you may visit http://awis.npaci.edu/jobs/jobs_employer2.html or email her |
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Newsletter
Co-Chair: Paula Campos Soto |
| To email Paula click here. |
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Newsletter
Co-Chair: Sama Tamrakar |
| Sama Tamrakar received her Bachelor's degrees from Trichanda College, Kathmandu, Nepal and Berea College, Berea, Kentucky. She received her Ph.D. in biochemistry from University of Rochester, Rochester, New York. For her dissertation, she studied the dephosphorylation of Retinoblastoma protein(pRB), a key cell cycle regulator, a process that may be abrogated in cancer cells. Her research interest in cell cycle regulation extends into viral studies. During her postdoctoral research at University of California San Diego, she investigated the roles of various host cell cycle regulators in Human Cytomegalovirus infection. Currently she is a part of the executive team at NanoBioNexus, an organization devoted to nanotechnology, and conducts technology reviews of leading edge companies relevant to the organization, and also serves as a scientific advisor on the commercial consulting projects. She also designed and coordinated a course on nanobiotechnology for UCSD extension. Sama also teaches microbiology at Southwestern College . She has been a member of the newsletter committee since 2005. Email. |
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Outreach
Co-Chair: Diane Retallack |
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Diane has been a member of AWIS San Diego chapter and involved in outreach since 2002. She is also active in outreach events through Biocom. Diane graduated from Widener University in 1990 with a B.S. in biology, then went on to the University of Michigan where she earned a Ph.D. from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology studying gene regulation in E. coli. During her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Diane investigated genes involved in the pathogenesis of the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum. Diane is currently employed by the Dow Chemical Company as a senior molecular biologist in the Systems Biology department, where her main focus is development and implementation of a microbial platform for the production of recombinant therapeutic proteins. Click here
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Outreach
Co-Chair: Jeannine Stuzka |
| Jeannine was
always curious as a young girl, and discovered how to channel that curiosity
as an undergraduate at the University of Albany, SUNY in the laboratory
of Jacquelyn Fetrow. Her undergraduate research project was to model and
analyze the structure of SSAP, a DNA binding protein. After earning her
B.S. in Biology in 1996, she attended Albany Medical College, to pursue
an M.S. degree in the laboratory of Michelle Lennartz. For her thesis, she
came out from behind the computer and went to the bench to study signal
transduction during IgG-Mediated Phagocytosis. After earning her M.S. in
1998, Jeannine packed up herself, and her cat, and moved cross-country to
be the first employee at a San Diego Biotech start-up. Since then, she has
adopted a second cat, worked as a teacher, and an Application Scientist
at a second San Diego Biotech Start-up. It was in 2004 that she became an
active member of the AWIS Outreach Committee, using her passion for science
to show other curious girls how to channel their talents.
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Public
Relations Co-Chair: Kathryn Nguyen |
| Kathryn Nguyen
is a doctoral candidate in the Biomedical Sciences Program at the UC San
Diego School of Medicine. She specializes in neuro-endocrinology in the
department of Reproductive Medicine. Her thesis project investigates the
effects of Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone on signal transduction pathways
involved in reproduction. Kathryn has devoted her research efforts to women’s
health ever since her undergraduate work at UC Irvine. Kathryn graduated
with a degree in Biology and a minor in Women’s Studies. She joined AWIS
after receiving the 2004 AWIS Graduate Scholarship. She has a passion for
improving women’s health. She sees a gender inequality in research efforts
placed on women’s diseases and health problems. Kathryn believes as a woman
scientist she has the responsibility to bring attention and change this
inequality. As chair of the Public Relations committee it is her goal to
foster public awareness and interest in AWIS-SD in order to support the
advancement of women in science. To contact the Public Relations committee
co-chairs, click here. |
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Public
Relations Co-Chair: Valerie Delmar |
| Valerie graduated from MIT with a B.S. in chemistry in 1998. Since then she has worked as a lab manager in the lab of Charly Craik at UCSF and is now a Ph.D. candidate in biology at UCSD. Her thesis work is in the lab of Dr. Douglass Forbes, focusing on the assembly of nuclear pore complexes. In addition to her research, Valerie has kept active by serving as a graduate student representative for UCSD Biology, initiating and organizing a cell biology discussion group on campus, helping to organize a "Transition to Industry Career Symposium", and also by volunteering with AWIS-SD.
Recently, Valerie became co-chair of the PR committee. To contact the Public
Relations committee co-chairs, click here. |
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Scholarship
Co-Chair: Varykina Thackray |
| Varykina Thackray is currently a senior Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department Reproductive Medicine at UCSD. She received her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in 2002. During her graduate studies, she focused on molecular mechanisms involved in the function of steroid receptors in mammary gland development and in breast cancer in the laboratory of Dr. Steven Nordeen. She chose to extend her training in molecular endocrinology in the laboratory of Dr. Pamela Mellon by characterizing the role of steroid and peptide hormone signaling pathways in the gonadotrope cell of the anterior pituitary. She is a recent recipient of an NIH National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). Dr. Thackray is also an active member of The Endocrine Society, Women in Endocrinology and the Association of Women in Science (AWIS).
She is currently serving as chair of the Scholarship Committee. Click here
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Scholarship Co-Chair: Shauna McGillivray |
| Shauna McGillivray received her B.A. from Concordia College in Moorhead MN in 1999 and her Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from UCSD in 2005. As a graduate student her research focus was in reproductive endocrinology, however as a post-doctoral researcher she switched fields and is currently studying microbial pathogenesis in the lab of Victor Nizet at UCSD. Shauna is supported by funding through an institutional research and academic career development award that combines biomedical research at UCSD with a mentored teaching experience at San Diego State University. Shauna was a member of the Speakers Committee for the AWIS Women in Bioscience conference in 2007 and is currently co-chair of the AWIS scholarship committee. Click here
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Strategy
Sessions Co-Chair: Grace Nakayama |
| Grace Nakayama, Ph.D. has over 12 years R&D experience in the life sciences industry. Currently, she is managing two oncology programs in clinical development stages as a Program Manager at Biogen Idec. Previously, she led and contributed to early stage drug discovery projects as a Senior Principal Scientist at Pfizer La Jolla. She has also held a variety of positions at: BIOCOM, Kalypsys, Biofocus DPI (formerly IRORI), and Applied Molecular Evolution (formerly Ixsys). Grace received a B.S. in Applied Chemistry at Harvey Mudd College, Ph.D. in Bioorganic Chemistry under Peter G. Schultz at UC Berkeley, and postdoctoral training at SRI International. She has been a member of AWIS for over 10 years. Click here for information about Strategy
Sessions. Or, to email, click here. |
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Strategy
Sessions Co-Chair: Valerie Uzzell |
| Valerie Uzzell is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Cell Biology Department of The Scripps Research Institute, where she seeks to identify new molecular receptors for sensory perception and pain. Valerie received her B.A. in Biology from Harvard University in 1999, and her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego in 2005. Valerie has served on the AWIS Strategy Session Committee since 2004 and is starting as Co-Chair of the committee in 2008. Click here for information about Strategy
Sessions. Or, to email, click here. |
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Website
Chair: Barbara Armstrong |
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An active AWIS member
since 1987, Barbara has served on the AWIS San Diego Chapter board of
directors (1987 to 1991), chaired the Science Fair Committee (1992 to
1994), chaired the Education Outreach Committee (1994 to 1999), has chaired
the Newsletter Committee (1999 to 2004), was an organizing committee member
for the 1993 Women in Bioscience Conference and was the Chair of the Publications
Committee for the 2001, 2003, and 2005 Women in Bioscience Conference
and has chaired the Website Committee since 2004. Email.
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