The 2022 cohort of the ASAPbio Fellows program includes 31 participants from five continents, you can read more about them below.

2022 ASAPbio Fellows

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a Senior Scientist at ICAR-Directorate of Poultry Research, Hyderabad, India. I work on chicken physiology with more focus on reproduction and germ cell cryopreservation. What are you excited about in science communication? I am an open science enthusiast and practitioner. I encounter…

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What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am final year PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden. I have a background in bioengineering and my overarching interest is in better understanding how phase separation can drive nuclear organization. What are you…

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What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a doctoral candidate at the National Institute of Animal Biotechnology, Hyderabad, India. My research interests are host-pathogen Interactions, population genetics and transcriptional regulation.

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What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work or line of research I am trained as a cell and developmental biologist, worked on cellular mechanisms regulating the ciliary disassembly and thereafter early developmental regulatory mechanisms of collective cell migration in vertebrates. I am also involved in advocating science communication, preprints and…

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What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work or line of research  With an early education in India, I pursued my PhD at Purdue and Postdoctoral training at UCSF. I am trained as a membrane protein biologist with focused training in ABC transporters and specialized skills in protein sciences. I look…

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What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a PhD student in Information Science at Indiana University Bloomington (United States) and I work as a research assistant in the Science Studies Lab at the University of Warsaw (Poland). What are you excited about in science communication? Science communication within…

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What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology (MCMP) Department at Purdue University, Indiana, USA. In my current doctoral thesis work, I focus on understanding how epigenetic regulators facilitate neuroendocrine differentiation in prostate cancer.  What are you excited about…

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What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work or line of research  I am a Ph.D. candidate at the laboratory of Dr. Peristera Paschou in the Department of Biological Sciences and a member of the Purdue University Interdisciplinary Life Science Program (PULSe) at Purdue University. I am studying how genetic variation…

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What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a cell biologist with a strong interest in light microscopy, especially single molecule and superresolution techniques. I studied Biochemistry in Hannover/Germany and New York City/USA and did my PhD with Ari Helenius at ETH Zurich/Switzerland studying cell entry of lipid-binding viruses. After a…

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What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a research fellow at University of Guilan, Iran and looking for new international scientific collaborations. I did my PhD at Leiden University, the Netherlands and I am interested in how anthropogenic sound affects the behaviour of fishes and crustaceans. My research…

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What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work researchI am currently finishing my PhD in Regenerative Biology at the Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD) – Technische Universität of Dresden, in Germany. I am studying how comes that a tiny, little fish named Zebrafish can regenerate its retinae – carpets of…

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What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work research Assistant Professor, California Lutheran University. I am a soil microbial ecologist and teach undergraduates. What are you excited about in science communication? Transferring science concepts to a broader audience. Why did you choose to participate in the ASAPbio Fellows program? To brainstorm…

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What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I’m a lecturer and researcher in molecular biology and bioinformatics at Chinhoyi University of Technology in Zimbabwe. My research interests are  in understanding the molecular bases of resurrection plants and medicinal plants. What are you excited about in science communication? I am excited…

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What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your researchI am currently a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Berkeley studying the mechanistic basis of host-pathogen interactions. I am interested in understanding the structural basis of how pathogens manipulate host cell membranes to cause cell-cell fusion.What are you excited about in science…

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What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work or line of research My current role is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Ophthalmology and Biochemistry at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia, USA. My lab is on the cell biology of photoreceptor neurons in the retina. We use super-resolution microscopy…

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What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am an FRM post-doc at the Epigenetics and Cell Fate Unit, Paris. In Claire Rougeulle laboratory, we aim to decipher the intricacies of X chromosome inactivation at various points in life and across species, focusing on roles of long non-coding RNAs. I…

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What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I’m a research group leader as part of my first post-doc at IALT – Universität Leipzig. Our main focus are translation phenomena and we’re tackling them from both a computational as well as psycho- and neurolinguistic perspective. I also am very interested in…

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What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a Junior Research Fellow at the Department of Urology, YMC Hospital, and Yenepoya Research Centre, Mangalore, India. I have been gaining interdisciplinary research experience in working with urological cancers and a few other projects dealing with proteomics and nanotechnology. What are…

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What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a PhD student at the lab of Nic Tapon in the Francis Crick Institute in London. In Nic’s lab we are interested in understanding how growth is controlled during development to give rise to reproducible sizes and patters, but also in…

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What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am currently a Ph.D. student at the Department of Plant Anatomy, Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary). My research interests lie in abiotic stresses, and I aim to improve our understanding of the photosynthetic repair mechanisms associated with extreme drought tolerance during long…

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What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am currently working as Assistant Professor at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. I am a teacher and a researcher. My current research focus is Developmental Biology and Stem cell fate determination. I am trying to understand how the crosstalk between stem cells…

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What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work or line of research I’m currently working as a D.S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, India. My research interests have been majorly focused on nanomedicine and drug delivery including the development and characterization of polyelectrolyte nanocapsules, colloidal nanoparticles and…

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What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I’m currently a PhD candidate (about to defend my thesis in ~5 months) and preparing for a postdoc. I’m specialized in neurosciences, pharmacology, and biochemistry, thus “brain metabolism” and “mitochondria” usually goes together with many of my questions and answers. What are you…

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What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am an Associate researcher professor at the Department of Parasitology and Microbiology, Medicinal and aromatic plants research institute, NCR, Sudan and an Assistant professor at College of Pharmacy, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, KSA. My research work is in genomic analysis of…

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What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work or line of research I’m a health librarian. I’m currently the head of the Central Library – Center for Information and Documentation of the University of Lisbon School of Medicine. I’m also an external PhD candidate at the Centre for Science and Technology…

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What is your current role? Tell us a bit about yourresearch I am an academician and an early career researcher from Sokoine University of Agriculture. I have a Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology and Laboratory Sciences and a Masters of Philosophy (Molecular Virology) both from Sokoine University of Agriculture.  Currently I am studying the molecular…

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What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work I work at University of Belgrade – Faculty of Chemistry as a librarian and institutional repository manager. Also I am a doctoral student at the Library and Information Science Department at the Faculty of Philology. What are you excited about in science communication?…

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What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I’m a bioinformatics postgraduate currently working as a project associate (@CDFD, India) where I am interested in unravelling the novel crosstalk between histone post-translational modifications (methylation) and RNA polymerase II mediated gene expression. I have been working on the crosstalk between co-transcriptional RNA:DNA…

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What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work or line of research? I am a PhD candidate in the School of Physiology of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. My research interests are in the therapeutic area: Diabetes & Cardiovascular Disease. Particularly, I am interested in elucidating the functional…

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What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a recent PhD graduate from Stanford, where I used chemical biology to understand how innate immunity detects and responds to cancer. What are you excited about in science communication? Communicating science in small, digestible, truthful chunks. Why did you choose to…

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What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a cognitive neuroscientist researching the neural correlates of self-initiated movements in humans through M/EEG and integration-to-bound models (PhD to be from Sorbonne University and CEA Saclay, Paris). But since 2020 I have been moonlighting as a founder and builder in the…

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