Department of Community Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Mentor: Dr. Phongtape Wiwatanadate

Present position: Assistant Professor, University of Miami, FL
Chief Executive Officer, Rhoda Moise Consulting DBA Dr Rho Wellness, Greater Philadelphia, PA

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Rhoda Moise, Kriengkrai Srithanaviboonchai, Penprapa Siviroj, Ratana Panpanich, and Michele Wood. Integration of Care: Comorbid HIV and Diabetes Narratives. American Public Health Association Annual Meeting 2016. Denver, CO.

Moise et al. (2020) The patient-provided continuum of care: narratives of people living with comorbid HIV and diabetes in Northern Thailand. J Patient Exp 749-757

Department of Community Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Mentor: Dr. Phongtape Wiwatanadate

Present position: Medical student, Stanford University Medical School, Stanford, CA
Researcher, McNair Scholar at University of California, BErkeley, CA

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Stigmas, health behaviors, and access to quality healthcare of transgender women in Chiang Mai, Thailand

Department of Community Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Mentor: Dr. Phongtape Wiwatanadate

Present position: Graduate Student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: HPV and cervical cancer knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors assessment of women in Pasang, Thailand

Department of Community Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Mentor: Dr. Phongtape Wiwatanadate

Present position: Manager – Gastroenterology clinic

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Increasing knowledge of hypertension and risk for cerebro-cardiovascular disease among hypertension patients and their family members through the use of multimedia: a pilot study

Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas "Rodolfo Ugalde", Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina

Mentor: Dr. Diego Comerci

Present position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Pfizer, San Diego, CA

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations:
Dave, N. and Jimenez Ortiz, V. Role of a Putative Mechanosensitive Channel in Trypanosoma cruzi Osmoregulation. September, 2015. Molecular Parasitology Meeting (MPM), Woods Hole, MA.

Dave, N., Lynch, H., Wong, B., Arroyo, D., and Jimenez Ortiz, V. Under Pressure: Sensing role of a putative mechanosensitive channel in Trypanosoma cruzi osmoregulation. November, 2015. Southern California Eukaryotic Pathogens (SCEP), University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA.

Dave, N., Wong, B., Barrera, P., and Jimenez Ortiz, V. Living under stress: role of a bacterial-like mechanosensitive channel in Trypanosoma cruzi osmoregulation. January, 2016. 28th CSU Annual Biotechnology Symposium (CSUPERB). Anaheim, CA.

Dave, N., Skorka, C., Lynch, H., and Jimenez Ortiz, V. Under Pressure: role of a putative mechanosensitive channel in T. cruzi osmoregulation. February, 2016. Biophysical Society Annual Meeting (BPS), Los Angeles, CA.

Dave, N., Maru, A., Wong, B., and Jimenez Ortiz, V. TCMCS just makes sense: role of a putative mechanosensitive channel in T. cruzi osmoregulation. May, 2016. Southern California Academy of Sciences (SCAS) Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA.

 

Fundación Instituto Leloir, Argentina

Mentor: Dr. Angeles Zorreguieta

Present position: Graduate student, CSU Los Angeles

Using pGEM T-Easy as a vector to generate an Ochrobactrum anthopi mutant

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Dpt. of Genetics, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Mentor: Dr. David Glover

Present position: Research Specialist, Department of Pathology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Fine regulation of neutrophil function by extracellular pH

 

Instituto de Investigaciones en Microbiología y Parasitología Médica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Mentor: Dr. Daniela Centrón

Present position: Study Director/Principal Investigator, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Kevin Chiem, Brooke Fuentes, David Lin, Tung Tran, Alexis Jackson, Maria S Ramirez, and Marcelo Tolmasky. Phenotypic conversion of amikacin resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae by zinc and copper pyrithione. CSUPERB 28th Annual Biotechnology Symposium, Garden Grove, CA

Collins, C., Almuzara, M., Saigo, M., Montana, S., Chiem, K., et al. (2018). "Whole-Genome Analysis of an Extensively Drug-Resistance Empedobacter falsenii Strain Reveals Distinct Features and the Presence of a Novel Metallo-ss-Lactamase (EBR-2)." Curr Microbiol 75(8): 1084-1089

Jani, S., et al. (2018). "Assessment of External Guide Sequences' (EGS) Efficiency as Inducers of RNase P-Mediated Cleavage of mRNA Target Molecules." Methods Mol Biol 1737: 89-98

Montana, S., Schramm, S., Traglia, G., Chiem, K., et al. (2016). "The Genetic Analysis of an Acinetobacter johnsonii Clinical Strain Evidenced the Presence of Horizontal Genetic Transfer." PLoS One 11(8): e0161528

Traglia, G., Chiem, K., et al. (2018). "Genome sequence analysis of an extensively drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii indigo-pigmented strain depicts evidence of increase genome plasticity." Sci Rep 8(1): 16961

 

 

 

Dpt. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Mentors: Dr. David Sherratt

Present position: Supplier performance Manager, Clinical Trials, Amgen, Thousand Oaks, CA

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Stability of multidrug resistance plasmids in clinical Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates

 

Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Mentor: Dr. Kieran Clarke

Present position: MD/PhD student, University of California, San Diego

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Saumya Jani, Sophia Malandraki-Miller, Arne Bruyneel, and Carolyn Carr. Advances in cardiac stem cell therapy. CSUPERB 28th Annual Biotechnology Symposium, Garden Grove, CA.

Saumya Jani, Alexis Jackson, Carol Davies-Sala, Angeles Zorreguieta, and Marcelo E. Tolmasky. Optimization of configurations and chemistries of bridged nucleic acids-containing oligomers as external guide sequences. CSUPERB 29th Annual Biotechnology Symposium, Santa Clara, CA.

Jackson, A., Jani, S., et al. (2016). "Assessment of configurations and chemistries of bridged nucleic acids-containing oligomers as external guide sequences: a methodology for inhibition of expression of antibiotic resistance genes." Biol Methods Protoc 1(1)

Jani, S., et al. (2018). "Assessment of External Guide Sequences' (EGS) Efficiency as Inducers of RNase P-Mediated Cleavage of mRNA Target Molecules." Methods Mol Biol 1737: 89-98