Last Update: 4/2025

Next Generation Faculty Symposium Alumni

Since 2020, the Next Generation Faculty Symposium has featured 39 aspiring faculty talks in a short ten-minute format. Thirty of the featured speakers have gone on to obtain faculty positions, as well as many of the honorable mention participants in the program. Alumni of the symposia and updates on their career paths are featured below. Read more about the past symposia and the impact of the program in this Stanford Engineering Science and Technology article.


Last Update: 4/2025

2023 Alumni
14 Selected Speakers - 9 Faculty and 5 Postdocs


Kolade Adebowale

is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at the University of California - San Diego.

Recorded NextGen Talk

Ismail Ahmed

is an Assistant Professor of Neurobiology at the University of Utah.

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Meli'sa Crawford

is an Assistant Professor of Animal Sciences at Rutgers University - New Brunswick.

Recorded NextGen Talk
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Selasi Dankwa

is an Assistant Professor of Microbiology at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst.

Recorded NextGen Talk

 

Lisa Eshun-Wilson

is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Scripps Research Institute.

Recorded NextGen Talk

Shawna Follis

is an Instructor at Stanford University.

Recorded NextGen Talk

Eva González Diaz

is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California - San Francisco.

Recorded NextGen Talk

Lauren Hagler

is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Texas A&M.

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Luis Hernandez-Nunez

is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Stanford University.

Antonio Tinoco Valencia

is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University.

Louai Labanieh

is an Assistant Professor of Immunology and Immunotherapy at Mount Sinai.

Recorded NextGen Talk

Kekoa Taparra

is an Assistant Professor for the Fielding School of Public Health and the David Geffen School of Medicine.

Recorded NextGen Talk
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Claudia Varela

is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Recorded NextGen Talk

Juan Vazquez

is an Assistant Professor of Biology at the Pennsylvania State University.

Recorded NextGen Talk
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Last Update: 4/2025

2021 Alumni
13 Selected Speakers - 10 Faculty and 3 in additional career opportunities


Fayal Abderemane-Ali

is an Assistant Professor of Physiology at the University of California - Los Angeles.

Recorded NextGen Talk
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Basem Al-Shayeb

is a Co-Founder of Amber Bio.

Recorded NextGen Talk

Joel Babdor

is an Assistant Professor of Pharmacology.

Recorded NextGen Talk
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Mairin Balisi

is the Augustyn Family Curator at the Raymond Alf Museum of Paleontology.

Recorded NextGen Talk
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Arnaldo Carreira-Rosario

is an Assistant Professor of Biology and of Neurobiology at Duke University.

Recorded NextGen Talk
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Valerie Darcey

is a Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator in the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at the National Institutes of Health.

Recorded NextGen Talk

Maria Maldonado

is an Assistant Professor of Plant Biology at the University of California - Davis.

Recorded NextGen Talk
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Juliane Sempionatto Moreto

is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineer at Rice University.

Recorded NextGen Talk
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Jaimie Marie Stewart

is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at the University of California - Los Angeles.

Recorded NextGen Talk
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Maxine Umeh Garcia

is an Instructor in the School of Medicine at Stanford University.

Recorded NextGen Talk

Natoya Peart

is an Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Waterloo.

Recorded NextGen Talk
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Claudia Vasquez

is an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Washington.

Recorded NextGen Talk
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Yvon Woappi

is an Assistant Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics at Columbia University.

Recorded NextGen Talk
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Last Update: 04/2025

2020 Alumni
12 Selected Speakers - 11 Faculty and 1 in an additional career opportunity


David Cox

is an Assistant Professor of Genetics at Stanford University.

Recorded NextGen Talk

Kyle Daniels

is an Assistant Professor of Genetics at Stanford University.

Recorded NextGen Talk
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Chantell Evans

is an Assistant Professor of Cell Biology at Duke University.

Recorded NextGen Talk
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Mireille Kamariza

is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at the University of California - Los Angeles.

Recorded NextGen Talk
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Geoffrey Lovely

is a Staff Research Scientist at Pumpkinseed.

Recorded NextGen Talk

Nicole Martinez

is an Assistant Professor of Chemical & Systems Biology and of Developmental Biology at Stanford University.

Recorded NextGen Talk
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James Nuñez

is an Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California - Berkeley.

Recorded NextGen Talk
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Caroline Palavicino-Maggio

is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Recorded NextGen Talk

 

is an Assistant Professor of Biology at the Pennsylvania State University.

Recorded NextGen Talk
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Catherine Tcheandjieu

is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at the University of California - San Francisco and an Assistant Investigator at the Gladstone Institute.

Recorded NextGen Talk
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Ottman Tertuliano

is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Recorded NextGen Talk
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Hawa Racine Thiam

is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and of Microbiology & Immunology at Stanford University.

Recorded NextGen Talk
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Last Update: 04/2025

Honorable Mentions (2020, 2021, 2023)
55 Honorable Mentions (Total) - 34 Faculty, 12 Postdocs and 9 in additional career opportunities


2020
17 Honorable Mentions - 11 Faculty, 2 Postdocs and 4 in additional career opportunities

  1. Eman Akam
    Instructor at Harvard Medical School - Massachusetts General Hospital

  2. Lindsey Backman
    Valhalla Fellow at the White Head Institute

  3. R. Konane Bay
    Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Colorado - Boulder
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  4. Cheavar Blair
    Assistant Professor of Physiology at the University of Kentucky

  5. John F. Brooks II
    Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University
    Lab Webpage

  6. David Castillo-Azofeifa
    Principal Scientist at Genentech

  7. Ahmed El Hady
    Group Leader at the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour - Universität Konstanz
    Lab Webpage

  8. Mariana Gomez-Schiavon
    Principal Investigator at the International Laboratory for Human Genome Research - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
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  9. Christian Guerrero-Juarez
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California - Irvine

  10. Colwyn Headley
    Instructor at Stanford University

  11. Rogelio Hernandez-Lopez
    Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and of Genetics at Stanford Unviersity
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  12. Manuel Razo-Mejia
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University

  13. Florentine Rutaganira
    Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and of Developmental Biology at Stanford University
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  14. Melody Smith
    Assistant Professor of Medicine at Stanford University
    Lab Webpage

  15. Christina Termini
    Assistant Professor of Human Biology and of Translational Science & Therapeutics at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center
    Lab Webpage

  16. Linda T. Vo
    Director of New Opportunities at Curie.Bio

  17. Asher Williams
    Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Columbia University
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2021
20 Honorable Mentions - 15 Faculty, 1 Postdoc and 4 in additional career opportunities

  1. Hoda Abdel Magid
    Assistant Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences and Spatial Sciences at the University of Southern California

  2. Juan Angueyra
    Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Maryland
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  3. Daniel Bayless
    Assistant Professor of Molecular Neurobiology at the Salk Institute
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  4. Fatima Enam
    Consultant at Boston Consulting Group

  5. Diego Fernandez
    Assistant Professor of Opthalmology Science of Light Center at the University of Cincinnati
    Lab Webpage

  6. Leah Guthrie
    Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at the University of California - Berkeley
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  7. Shuo Han
    Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology at Duke University
    Lab Webpage

  8. Colwyn Headley
    Instructor at Stanford University

  9. Maia Kinnebrew
    Distinguished Fellow of Biochemistry at Stanford University
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  10. Huong Kratochvil
    Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
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  11. Shan Meltzer
    Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University
    Lab Webpage

  12. Rachel Niederer
    Assistant Professor of Cellular and Molecular Biology at the University of Michigan
    Lab Webpage

  13. Jasmine Nirody
    Assistant Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago
    Lab Webpage

  14. Agostina Palmigiano
    Lecturer at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at University College London

  15. Candice Price
    Program Director at the National Institutes of Health - National Heart, Lunch and Blood Institute

  16. Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana
    Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University
    Lab Webpage

  17. Shelbi Russell
    Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering at University of California - Santa Cruz
    Lab Webpage

  18. Trevor Sorrells
    Assistant Professor of Genetics at Yale University
    Lab Webpage

  19. Jacob Steenwyk
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of California - Berkeley

  20. Valerie Tornini
    Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology and Physiology at the University of California - Los Angeles
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2023
18 Honorable Mentions - 8 Faculty, 9 Postdocs and 1 in an additional career opportunity

  1. Samira Abdulai-Saiku
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California - San Francisco

  2. Neville Bethel
    Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California - San Diego
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  3. Rashmi Chandra
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California - San Francisco

  4. Justin Conner
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California - Berkeley

  5. Maria Fernanda Forni
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Yale University

  6. Melanie Hannebelle
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute

  7. Colwyn Headley
    Instructor at Stanford University

  8. Sergio Hidalgo Sotelo
    Assistant Professor of Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience at Washington State University
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  9. Rose Hill
    Assistant Professor of Chemical Physiology and Biochemistry at Oregon Health and Science University

  10. Chinyere Iweka
    Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at Case Western Reserve University
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  11. Vineet Joag
    Assistant Professor at the Center for Immunity and Immunotherapies at the University of Washington - Seattle Children’s Hospital

  12. Ahmad Nabhan
    Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California - Berkeley

  13. Renato Navarro
    Assistant Professor of Material Science and Engineering at the University of Florida

  14. Jean Jacques Noubiap
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California - San Francisco

  15. Lenore Pipes
    Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaii - Manoa
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  16. Piere Rodriguez-Aliaga
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University

  17. Marielena Sosa
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University

  18. Jacob Steenwyk
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of California - Berkeley