Professional Activities

  • 2024 Selected reverse mentor for FASEB LEAD (Leadership Engagement and Appreciation of Differences) program -An innovative reverse mentoring program fostering a culture of sharing diverse perspectives to make impactful changes in the scientific community. [website]
  • 2024 Selected participant in the Inclusive Leadership Workshop, Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. [Group photo]
  • 2023 Selected participant in the NC State Building Future Faculty (BFF) Program, NC State University, March 29-31, Raleigh, NC. [Group photo]
  • 2023 Selected participant in Science Forward: Towards Inclusive Excellence in Academia, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, March 20-21, Cold Spring Harbor, NY. A symposium to increase diversity, expand inclusion and uphold equity in basic science research at New York State’s academic research institutions. [Group photo]
  • 2022 Neurodevelopment section co-chair and poster judge, Annual Drosophila Research Conference, April 6-10, San Diego. [pdf]
  • 2022 Reviewer for CoNNeXins application “Colloquium at NYU for networking: Extramural for Invited Neuroscience Students”- a symposium event for external graduate students finishing up their PhD to share their work with the NYU community, learn about NYU neuroscience and network with Faculty and trainees [Link]
  • 2021 – present Review Editor for Cellular Neurophysiology, Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
  • 2020 ISOT virtual meeting certificate of attendance [pdf]
  • 2019 – present ad hoc reviewer: PNAS (1); Cell Reports (1); eLife (2); PLOS Genetics (1); eNeuro (4); Genetics (10); STAR Protocols (12); Insects (1); Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (1); Journal of Neuroscience Methods (1); Journal of Visualized Experiments (1) [Publons link] [eNeuro Acknowledgement of Reviewers]
  • 2018 Helper, Two-day Software Carpentry Workshop, UCR [Link]
  • 2016 Co-reviewer, eLife (Mentor: Dr. Anupama Dahanukar)

Professional Training

  • 2024 PI’s Business of Research Boot Camp, Columbia University (virtual) [Certificate]
  • 2024 Creating Compelling Research Narrative Workshop, Columbia University (virtual) [Certificate]
  • 2024 iBiology online training course – The Trainee Podcast: Build Your Research Community [Certificate]
  • 2023 How to Effectively Communicate Your Science to Any Audience (4 weeks), New York Academy of Sciences [Certificate]
  • 2023 Scientists Teaching Science Course (9 weeks), New York Academy of Sciences [Certificate]
  • 2022 and 2023 PI Crash Course (twice), Columbia University [Certificate]
  • 2021-2022 Torrey Pines Leadership Development Program, Sanford Burnham Prebys [Certificate]
  • 2021 Certified peer reviewer course by the Elsevier Researcher Academy [pdf]
  • 2020 iBiology online training course – Planning Your Scientific Journey [Certificate]
  • 2019-2021 Early Career Reviewer, Developmental & Behavioral Genetics section, GENETICS Peer Review Training Program [Link 1] [Link 2] [Certificate of completion]
  • 2018 Co-reviewer, The Journal of Neuroscience Reviewer Mentor Program (Mentor: Dr. Wayne Sossin) [Link] [pdf]
  • 2018 9th annual ANGUS workshop, a two-week workshop for bioinformatics and cloud computing, UC Davis [pdf]