The Genetics Society of America (GSA) is excited to announce the latest cohort of student, postdoc, and early-career research leaders joining the Early Career Leadership Program.
Participants receive training and mentoring while serving on committees charged with understanding the needs, interests, concerns, and challenges of early career scientist members of the GSA. As part of this leadership and professional development program, appointees develop programming and resources to advocate for the interests of the GSA, highlight important advancements originating within the genetics community, and build relationships with scientists in all sectors of the workforce. Learn more about the program and current participants here.
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Blessing Erinwusi, member
Graduate Student, Centre for Genomic Research in Biomedicine
Brian Kirz, member
Graduate student, University of Rochester
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Johanna Rhodes, member
Postdoc, Radboud University Medical Centre
Samuel Isife, member
Graduate student, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Sanjana Sundararajan, co-chair
Postdoc, National Institutes of Health
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Yu-Ying Phoebe Hseh, member
Postdoc, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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Career Development Subcommittee
Blessing Olabosoye, member
Graduate student, Iowa State University
Fiona Nelima Mumoki, member
Postdoc, University of Pretoria, South Africa
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Ling Loh, member
Graduate student, George Washington University
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Olufemi Osonowo, member
Graduate student, Dalhousie University
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Pablo Augusto de Souza Fonseca, co-chair
Postdoc, Universidad de Leon
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Sara McPherson, member
Graduate student, Queen’s University
Communications & Outreach
Camille Bédard, member
Graduate student, Université Laval
Hector Mendoza, member
Postdoc, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Lauren Dineen, member
Postdoc, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
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Mohab Helmy, member
Postdoc, University of Cambridge
Sumitra Tatapudy, co-chair
Postdoc, University of Washington
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Zoé Gillespie, member
Postdoc, University of Toronto
Community & Membership
Anvita Kulshrestha, co-chair
Graduate student, Duke University
Ikele Chinyere Mary-Cynthia, member
Graduate student, Osaka University, Japan
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Edward Pietryk, member
Graduate student, Baylor College of Medicine
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Haoran Cai, member
Graduate student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mahmoud Izadi, member
Graduate student, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
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Rebecca Arnold, member
Graduate student, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
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Multimedia
Alex McElwee-Adame, co-chair
Graduate Student, San Diego State University
Debraj Manna, member
Graduate student, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
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Faye Romero, member
Graduate student, University of Rochester
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Jevithen Nehru, member
Graduate student, University of Toronto
Kazeem Alayande, member
Postdoc, North-West University, South Africa
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Laetitia Chauve, member
Postdoc, Trinity College Dublin
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Policy & Advocacy
Bahaar Chawla, member
Graduate student, University of Michigan
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Maddelyn Harden, co-chair
Graduate Student, University of Southern California
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Montana Kay Lara, member
Postdoc, University of California, San Diego
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Oluwabukola Mary Farodoye, member
Graduate student, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Rosty Brichko, member
Graduate student, University of California, Irvine
Ujani Hazra, member
Graduate student, Georgia Institute of Technology
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