Shirley Wang is a freelance health and science writer and clinical psychologist who teaches and conducts scholarship at Princeton University. For nearly a decade, she was a health and science reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where she wrote a column called “In the Lab” that highlighted new scientific research. She got her start in science writing as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Mass Media Fellow during graduate school. Shirley received her PhD from Yale University and her Bachelor’s from Princeton University.

After graduating from IC in 2015, Sadie headed to Boston where she worked with Americorps for a service year. After that she became a technician in a Cancer Biology lab at DFCI, with fellow Woods Lab member - Haley Coleman down the street! Two years after working in the Vidal Lab Sadie joined a Neurobiology lab at Harvard Medical School where she worked as a Lab Manager and Research Associate II. During that time she worked towards her MLA in Biotechnology at the Harvard Extension School. Now Sadie is working as a Biochemist at Siemens Healthineers, in Walpole MA. She just submitted her thesis for her masters program and is loving working in the Biotechnology sector. 

Thomas Eng, PhD is a Biologist Research Scientist/Engineer at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. He is also the Deputy Director of Host Engineering at the Joint Bioenergy Institute, a Department of Energy (DOE) funded project which aims to enable the biological conversion of renewable plant-derived feedstocks into fuels and bioproducts. Dr. Eng recieved his S.B. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Watch a brief video summary of Thomas Eng's work. 

Kerry Larkin graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of the Holy Cross in 2020. She majored in Biology and Music and worked in Dr. Michelle Mondoux’s research lab studying the effects of a high-glucose diet on male C. elegans fertility. After graduation, she began working as a post-baccalaureate research fellow in Dr. Andy Golden’s lab at NIDDK/NIH where she models rare genetic diseases using C. elegans. Kerry is currently applying to graduate programs in genetics and biomedical sciences.

Paola Figueroa-Delgado is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Cell Biology at Yale University, where she currently studies the neuronal cytoskeleton in the lab of Dr. Shaul Yogev. She was born and raised in Puerto Rico where she received her Bachelors of Science at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. During her time as an undergraduate student, she was a NIH BP-ENDURE Fellow and founded the National Neuroscience Student Association. She is a passionate and driven advocate for underrepresented and marginalized individuals in STEM and has continuously mentored and supported them throughout her career. She began mentoring pre-college URM students in the Arecibo Observatory Space Academy program, while as an undergraduate, as a Universities Space Research Association Fellow. Furthermore, she was the Education and Outreach Chair for the International Space Development Conference from 2014 to 2016 and was the organizer of TEDxUPR, among other conferences. She is passionate about making STEM accessible and creating an environment that is diverse, equitable and inclusive to all individuals, specifically those who are historically marginalized. At Yale, she serves as the Yale Biology and Biomedical Sciences Diversity and Inclusion Collective Outreach Branch Chair, Cell Biology Department Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee PhD Student Representative, Womxn in Science at Yale Board Member, among others.