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Valentina Martinez Damonte
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Psychiatry
Bio I have come to Stanford University to increase my knowledge and acquire new skills in neuroscience and synaptic plasticity. My interest in the brain arises from its unique complexity and malleability to shape different behavioral outcomes. My PhD was aimed at studying the modulation of voltage-gated calcium channels in primary neuronal cultures and brain slices by a GPCR involved in energy homeostasis and memory. At this stage I am willing to use my expertise in electrophysiology and subcellular neuroscience to explore the plasticity of inhibitory afferents into the VTA and its relation with stress-induced relapse.
I also believe that science is a powerful tool to explore and change the world, and hence I am highly interested in the ideas behind science policies as well as in understanding how science shapes the reality we live in, and the responsibility we have as scientists. -
Leonardo Martinez Pantoja
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Infectious Diseases
Bio I am a postdoctoral research fellow focusing on infectious disease epidemiology, specifically tuberculosis, in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at Stanford University's School of Medicine under the mentorship of Dr. Jason Andrews.
My research focuses on
(i) deriving and validating meaningful and effective interventions to diagnose and prevent pediatric tuberculosis
(ii) furthering our understanding of tuberculosis transmission dynamics in high-burden settings, and
(iii) advocating for the implementation of effective health policy in low-income communities with a high tuberculosis burden -
Ivana Martinic
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford
Bio Ivana Martinić is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the department of radiology at Stanford University. She received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Molecular Biotechnology from University of Zagreb (Croatia), in 2011 and 2013, and M.Sc. degree in Bioindustrial Techniques from University of Orléans (France), in 2013. Her research during M.Sc. was focused on: `Exploring of a New Nuclear mRNA Surveillance Pathway in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae`. She received her PhD degree in biology/biochemistry in 2016 at the University of Orléans (France) under supervision of Prof. Stéphane Petoud and Dr. Svetlana V. Eliseeva and support of a Marie Curie fellowship. Her research interests were focused on development of near-infrared (NIR) optical imaging agents based on lanthanide ions (e.g. small molecules, polymetallic complexes, Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs), polyamidoamine dendrimers and nanoparticles) for applications in cancer research and diagnostics. As a complement and continuation of her PhD work she has worked on a maturation project financially supported by the Technology Transfer Company (SATT Grand Centre, France) that has the main goal to create and characterize imaging agents as commercially valuable products. She is co-inventor of five patents and has published a few peer-reviewed papers in high ranking journals and gave several talks at international conferences.
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Solange Massa
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Developing biomaterials and medical devices using chemistry and 3D printing.
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Danielle Mathersul
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Psychiatry
Current Research and Scholarly Interests I am a psychologist clinician researcher passionate about mental health. My research strives to determine the most effective treatments for individuals with mental health disorders. I am particularly interested in mindfulness-based psychotherapies and mind-body (yoga, meditation) interventions. I utilize methodologies to better understand the physiological and neural underpinnings of treatment efficacy and emotion dysregulation more broadly.
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Naama Mayseless-Yahav
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Psychiatry
Bio Naama Mayseless is a postdoctoral fellow working with Dr. Allan Reiss in the Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research (CiBSR) at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Mayseless obtained her Bachelor degree in Physics (2004) from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a Research Master in Neuroscience (2007) from Haifa University (Israel). She obtained a PhD in Social Psychology from Haifa University (Israel) in 2015 for her work on the neuroscience of creative ability.
Currently, Dr. Mayseless is conducting research on a brain-based model of team interactivity which incorporates brain-to-brain synchrony related to team collaboration. A goal of this work is to create an inter-brain synchrony model of team collaboration that can inform successful team collaborations. In addition, Dr. Mayseless is conducting research on the neuro-developmental trajectories of creativity and its relation to humor and mathematical ability. -
Ian McCoy
Clinical Instructor, Medicine - Nephrology
Current Research and Scholarly Interests As a nephrologist working in diverse practice settings including the intensive care unit (ICU), I regularly face the limitations of current clinical tools for assessing a patient's volume status and for guiding patient selection for diuretic therapy. I work with a large, detailed clinical database (MIMIC-III) to study current patterns of diuretic use in the ICU, estimated effects of diuretic use, and clinical features that may predict outcomes in critically ill patients receiving diuretics.
I am also involved in quality improvement. I lead the Draw on Dialysis project, which aims to draw non-urgent inpatient labs on dialysis rather than by peripheral phlebotomy in order to save patient pain and peripheral veins for future dialysis access. I am also interested in leveraging nationwide databases such as Optum claims data to assess adherence to guidelines in kidney care. -
Marla McPherson
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Transplantation Surgery
Bio As a postdoctoral fellow, my research aim is to improve our understanding of a category of Epstein Barr Virus (EBV)+ B cell lymphoma termed "PTLD", which arises in immunosuppressed or immunocompromised EBV-infected patients, including solid organ recipients. My projects are focused on (1) host genomic perturbations generated by EBV that may contribute to tumorigenesis in EBV+ B cell lymphoma, (2) EBV-based modulation of the host human miRNA network and its alteration of the host PI3K/Akt pathway in infected B cells, and (3) unique systemic and B cell-centric changes in the immune systems of pediatric organ transplant recipients who develop EBV+ PTLD. I am investigating potential mechanisms of EBV-induced B cellular proliferation and transformation. Improved understanding of the mechanisms of EBV pathogenesis may help identify new therapeutic targets for EBV-associated malignancies. My research is performed under the guidance of Dr. Olivia M. Martinez, a well-recognized leader in transplant immunology and Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) research. I have already contributed to collaborative projects focused on EBV+ B lymphomas in the lab, resulting in a second-authored research publication in the American Journal of Transplantation.
To cultivate a robust scientific community at Stanford, I volunteer as a member of the Stanford Immunology Postdoctoral Committee and as lead organizer of the annual Immunology Postdoc Symposium. Through this scientific outreach, I have gained valuable experience in management, leadership, and networking. My training plan additionally includes other activities for research career development, including student mentoring, grantsmanship, computational biology workshops/courses, and conference presentations. Recently, I presented my preliminary research findings at the Stanford Immunology Research Conference (2018) and the International Congress of The Transplantation Society (2018). -
Stavros Melemenidis
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Radiation Physics
Bio Stav is a Physicist in training (B.Sc. in Physics with Medical Applications) with expertise in radiation detection (M.Sc. in Radiometrics: Instrumentation and Modelling) and radiation biology (M.Sc. in Radiation Biology). He joined the Graves lab after completing his Ph.D. in Radiation Biology at the University of Oxford, at the Experimental Neuroimaging Group. During his work at Oxford he focused on the development of novel molecular contrast agents for in vivo imaging methods, aiming to monitor angiogenesis in solid tumours or early detection of pulmonary micrometastasis. During his research at Stanford, Stav aims to expand his expertise in Radiation Therapy and more specifically on the effect of radiation on the tumour microenvironment and tumour cell migration.
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Louise Alessandra Mesentier Louro
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Ophthalmology
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Interested in understanding how glia shapes neuronal fate in neurodegenerative diseases and in designing therapeutic approaches to prevent retinal ganglion cell loss and irreversible damage to the optic nerve, the only connection between the eye and the brain.
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Brian David Mills
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Radiological Sciences Laboratory
Bio My research uses of non-invasive imaging techniques to study psychiatric and neurological conditions across both human and animal models of disease.
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Yasbanoo Moayedi
Postdoctoral Medical Fellow, Cardiovascular Medicine
Bio Yas is currently working as a research fellow at Stanford University under the supervision of Drs. Jeffrey Teuteberg and Kiran Khush. She completed residency internal medicine, cardiology and heart failure training at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include heart transplant outcomes and mobile health for precision medicine in in advanced heart failure therapies.
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Dunja Mrdjen
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Pathology
Bio Dr. Mrdjen received a B.Sc. in Molecular and Cell Biology and a B.Sc. (Hons) in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa. During her M.Sc. research she investigated the imprinting of maternal immune experience onto offspring in mouse models at the Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine at UCT. Following her M.Sc. work, Dr. Mrdjen interned at the Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) at Biopolis, Singapore, and then moved to Zurich, Switzerland where she completed her Ph.D. in Immunology at the University of Zurich under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Burkhard Becher. Dr. Mrdjen's Ph.D. work involved the use of single-cell technologies like CyTOF mass cytometry to investigate the immune compartments of the murine brain at steady state and during different kinds of brain diseases.
With funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation and Novartis, Dr. Mrdjen's post-doctoral research at Stanford University with Prof. Thomas Montine and Dr. Sean Bendall focuses on understanding the cellular networks and spatial interactions between then and genetic risk products that drive Alzheimer's disease in the human brain, by leveraging multiplexed ion beam imaging (MIBI) and computational approaches to data analysis.
