Fellows Selected for New Scialog: Advancing BioImaging
Research Corporation for Science Advancement has selected 55 early-career researchers as Fellows for its new Scialog initiative, Advancing BioImaging. The first meeting of this Scialog series will be held virtually May 20-21, 2021.
Sponsored by RCSA and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, with additional support from the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation, the series of three yearly meetings will bring together a diverse group of scientists from a wide range of fields to address the challenges involved in enhancing high-resolution imaging of tissues to support basic science and the treatment of disease. Participants will include optical physicists, chemists, engineers, and biologists.
Scialog is short for “science + dialog.” Created in 2010 by RCSA, the Scialog format creates communities of early-career scholars selected from multiple disciplines and institutions across the U.S. and Canada. Guided by a group of senior Facilitators, participating scientists discuss challenges and bottlenecks, build community around visionary goals for developing and deploying these technologies, and seek collaborators for cutting-edge research projects.
At each conference, participants form multidisciplinary teams to design research projects, which they pitch to a committee of leading scientists who have facilitated discussions throughout the meeting. The committee then recommends seed funding to catalyze the most promising of those team projects, based primarily on the potential for high-impact results.
Participation in Scialog is by invitation and is inclusive of researchers from groups underrepresented in science.
Scialog: Advancing BioImaging Fellows for 2021 are:
Shiva Abbaszadeh, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California, Santa Cruz
Benjamin Bartelle, School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University Fulton School of Engineering
Carolyn Bayer, Biomedical Engineering, Tulane University
Joshua Brake, Department of Engineering, Harvey Mudd College
Molly Bright, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences, Northwestern University
Dylan Burnette, Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Kevin Cash, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
Fanny Chapelin, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Kentucky
Huanyu Cheng, Engineering Science and Mechanics, Pennsylvania State University
Shwetadwip Chowdhury, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
Mini Das, Department of Physics, University of Houston
Allison Dennis, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University
Joyoni Dey, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University
Alexandra Dickinson, Biology, University of California, San Diego
Uzay Emir, School of Health Science, Purdue University
Candace Fleischer, Department of Radiology & Imaging Sciences, Emory University
Domenico (Nick) Galati, Department of Biology, Western Washington University
Anna-Karin Gustavsson, Department of Chemistry, Rice University
Arnold Hayer, Department of Biology, McGill University
Ulugbek Kamilov, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis
Kathryn Keenan, Applied Physics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy, Department of Neurobiology, Northwestern University
Melike Lakadamyali, Department of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania
Matthew Lew, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis
Qian Liu, Institute of Parasitology, McGill University
Matthew Lovett-Barron, Division of Biological Sciences, Neurobiology Section, University of California, San Diego
Morteza Mahmoudi, Radiology and Precision Health Program, Michigan State University
Dylan McCreedy, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station
Aseema Mohanty, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tufts University
Luke Mortensen, Regenerative Bioscience Center, School of Chemical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Georgia
Girgis Obaid, Department of Bioengineering, University of Texas at Dallas
Sapun Parekh, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
Paris Perdikaris, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania
Lisa Poulikakos, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego
Shannon Quinn, Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia
Aniruddha Ray, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Toledo
Crystal Rogers, Anatomy, Physiology, and Cell Biology, University of California, Davis
Mimi Sammarco, Department of Surgery, Tulane University School of Medicine
Ferdinand Schweser, Department of Neurology, SUNY - University at Buffalo
Mark Sellmyer, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania
Douglas Shepherd, Department of Physics, Arizona State University - Tempe Campus
Lingyan Shi, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego
Seunghyun (Seu) Sim, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine
Ellen Sletten, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles
Barbara Smith, School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University - Tempe Campus
Bryan Spring, Department of Physics, Northeastern University
Srigokul Upadhyayula, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
David Van Valen, Biology and Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology
Alexandra Walsh, Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station
Ping Wang, Department of Radiology, Michigan State University
Lu Wei, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
Katharine White, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame
Stefan Wilhelm, Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oklahoma
Sixian You, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bo Zhen, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania
