SBU Postdoc Spotlight 2019
SBU Postdoc Spotlight is a celebration of the research performed by Stony Brook's postdoctoral scholars. 
Location: Wang Center Lecture Hall 2
Date: Thursday, November 14, 2019
Spotlight Talks: 4:00 pm—5:30 pm
Reception & Award Presentation: 5:30 pm—6:30 pm
This event is free and open to the public.
Awards are generously sponsored by the Office of the Vice President of Research.
Spotlight 2019 Speakers
Congratulations to all our speakers for their hard work, and especially, our best talk winners from
the 2019 SBU Postdoc Spotlight! This year we had our first tie for second place! A very good problem
to have. Special thanks to OVPR for upping the prizes to accommodate our two second
place winners.
1st Place Paola Cepeda (left),
Graduate School & Linguistics
2nd Place (tie) Kevin Sackel (center),
Mathematics & Simons Center
2nd Place (tie) Hillary Schiff (right),
Neurobiology & Behavior
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Welcome & Overview |
Wang Lecture Hall 2 |
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Kathleen Flint Ehm, Director for Graduate and Postdoctoral Professional Development |
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Spotlight Presentations
Moderator: Cristina Lazzarini, Postdoc, Microbiology
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Wang Lecture Hall 2 |
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Postdoc Speakers:
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Kasturi Banerjee, Infectious Diseases,
"Protect the Sick from Getting Sicker!"
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Somanon Bhattacharya, Infectious Diseases
"Old But Deadly – A Tale Of Elderly Yeast"
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Paola Cepeda, Graduate School and Linguistics,
"Untying the (K)not: Understanding Negation"
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Mariano Guardia Clausi, Radiation Oncology,
"A Game-Changer in Brain Cancer Treatment"
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Christina Joselevitch, Neurobiology and Behavior,
"How Do Brain Cells Talk?"
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Diane Kim, Psychiatry and Behavioral Health,
"Towards Understanding Suicide"
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Yedukondalu Neelam, Geosciences,
"What is the Earth's Inner Core Made Up Of?"
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Kevin Sackel, Mathematics and Simons Center,
"Putting the Pieces Together"
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Hillary Schiff, Neurobiology and Behavior,
"You Are What You Ate"
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Gurtej Singh, Surgery,
"Plastic Surgery – We're Cutting Edge"
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Yingchao Su, Biomedical Engineering,
"Never Go Back to the Hospital"
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Stalin Vilcarromero, Infectious Diseases,
"The Real Threat for the Hispanic Workers in Suburban Areas of Long Island: Social
Barriers and Lyme Disease"
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| 5:30pm-6:30pm |
Reception and Award Presentation |
Wang Chapel |
