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Alexander Kaiser
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cardiology
Bio Alexander D. Kaiser is an applied mathematician who researches modeling and simulation of heart mechanics. His doctoral work focused on the mitral valve. He currently works in the Stanford Cardiovascular Biomechanics Computation Laboratory, led by Alison Marsden, on modeling cardiac disease.
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Agnieszka Kalinowski
Clinical Instructor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Bio I am a translational physician-scientist focused on studying the role of the immune system in patients with schizophrenia. My work spans careful clinical characterization of patients to understanding mechanisms in basic science model systems, allowing to provide mechanistic understanding to observations in clinical samples. Currently, I'm focused on deciphering the role of the complement system and how the known genetic risk translates into pathophysiological disease mechanisms. I hope that this work will pave the way to novel treatment strategies.
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Nicholas Antonios Kalogriopoulos
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
Bio Nick's broad research interests are in developing tools and technologies for research and therapeutic applications. Nick obtained a B.S. in Genetics and Molecular Biology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During his undergraduate career, he trained with Dr. Paul Sondel, where he worked on preclinical testing of novel immunotherapeutic agents for the treatment of neuroblastoma. He obtained a Ph.D. in Biomedical Science with Dr. Pradipta Ghosh, elucidating the structural basis of non-canonical G protein activation by a novel protein family of Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Modulators (GEMs). As a Postdoctoral Researcher with Professor Alice Ting at Stanford University, his current research focuses on developing a new system for programmable and user-controlled cellular behaviors for immuno-oncology applications.
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Tahereh Kamali
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Bio Dr. Tahereh Kamali joined Stanford University in September 2019. Her research interests primarily lie in the design of new machine learning techniques for healthcare and developing clinical decision support systems to achieve accurate as well as robust prediction particularly in case of having partially-labeled training data. Her research interests also span the areas of the biomedical signal/image processing, computer vision, intelligent assistive technologies, and affective computing.
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Husniye Kantarci
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Neurosurgery
Current Research and Scholarly Interests I am very interested in discovering the signals that glial cells and neurons use to communicate with each other, and understanding how these signals regulate neural function and myelination in the nervous system.
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Saswati Karmakar
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
Bio Saswati Karmakar obtained her undergraduate degree in Biotechnology at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi. She pursued her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, working on the molecular characterization of pancreatic cancer stem cells and their contribution to cancer initiation and progression. Then, she moved to Stanford University with the National Cancer Institute's F99/K00 award for a postdoctoral position in Monte Winslow's lab. Saswati's current research explores the role of tumor suppressor genes in pancreatic cancer pathogenesis.
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Abhinav Kaushik
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sean N Parker Center for Allergy & Asthma Research
Bio Abhinav Kaushik, PhD
Post-Doctoral Scholar
My current position at Stanford involves single cell Mass cytometry (CyTOF), gene expression and DNA methylation data analysis, as well as integrative analysis of single-cell datasets. I am working with a team to standardize the CyTOF data analysis pipeline using different statistical modeling approaches (linear or non-linear, Bayesian inference).
I have a strong experience in analyzing RNAseq, DNAseq and ChIP-seq data analysis. I am a programmer who loves to code with R, C# and perl. My keen interest includes application development for analyzing scientific data using different statistical approaches. However, my work is not restricted to one particular domain and sometimes includes in silico data analysis and algorithm development for solving both genomics and structural biology problems.
I have joined the Nadeau Laboratory at the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford in July 2018. I received my PhD in Bioinformatics from the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, India in 2017. Before joining the Nadeau Laboratory, I worked as a Visiting Researcher in the Pathogen Genomics laboratory at Kings Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia. -
Eric J. Keller
Postdoctoral Medical Fellow, Radiology
Current Research and Scholarly Interests I am primarily working on developing applied ethics, a practical, ground-up approach to helping clinicians navigate sticky/challenging situations in healthcare. I also study professional cultures in healthcare, i.e., clinician-administration relationships or how does an internist think differently than a general surgeon and how does this affect their behaviors.
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Faes Kerkhof
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Orthopedic Surgery
Bio I manage and conduct integrative research using machine-learning, biomechanics, additive manufacturing and advanced medical imaging to drive the knowledge on hand (dys)function in ways that are clinically meaningful.
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Ali Khaledi Nasab
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Neurosurgery
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Computational and theoretical neuroscience
Biological physics
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Danish Khan
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biochemistry
Bio Danish is a postdoctoral research associate at the Brandman and Rohatgi groups at the Dept. of Biochemistry. His research focuses on understanding the mechanism of eukaryotic protein quality control pathways. Before joining Stanford, Danish earned his PhD from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX where he studied chemical inhibition of a lipid signaling protein and discovered a novel heme-binding lipid transfer protein. He also holds a Masters degree in Biotechnology from Banaras Hindu University in India, and a Bachelors degree from Presidency College, Kolkata (University of Calcutta), India. In addition to science, he likes to read about law and intersection of law and technology.
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Syamantak Khan
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Radiation Physics
Current Research and Scholarly Interests In-vitro bio-mimetic models of cancer and cancer metastasis
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James Michael Kilgour
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dermatology
Bio James grew up in Oxford in the United Kingdom. He graduated from Cardiff University School of Medicine with honours in 2017, and has a BSc in Medical Education. Following graduation, he completed two years as a clinical academic in Dermatology at the University of Oxford, conducting research investigating patient-reported outcome measures and quality of life in patients with Graft-versus-Host-Disease following allogenic stem cell transplant. He has also extensively published in Medical Education, and is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of a novel peer reviewed medical journal targeted at encouraging medical students to publish and peer review.
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Christina Kim
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Simultaneous recording and manipulation of neural activity:
I actively pursue the development and application of techniques for all-optical recording and manipulation of neural activity in living animals. During my PhD I developed a microscope capable of performing bulk calcium recording and optogenetic stimulation in freely moving animals (Frame-projected Independent-fiber Photometry). We demonstrated its utility by recording from sparse dopaminergic axon terminals distributed throughout the brain during rewarding versus aversive stimuli, and by recording from up to 7 different brain regions during a social interaction test. Using simultaneous optogenetics and calcium recording, we could then fine-tune the optogenetic stimulation of dopamine neurons to produce activity that mimicked the naturally-occurring response profiles during behavior. This work was published in Nature Methods, and has been patented and licensed to a company that has commercialized the microscope (www.neurophotometrics.com). -
Samuel Kimmey
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Pathology
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Investigating early human development with single cell proteomics to understand how stem cells make developmental decisions at the molecular level. To accomplish this, protein expression of key regulators is quantified simultaneously in single, differentiating embryonic cells to produce a high-dimensional map of transcription factor expression along a developmental axis. The generated highly multiplexed data is used to infer function and relationships of key regulators.
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Daniel Alexander King
Postdoctoral Medical Fellow, Oncology
Bio Daniel Alexander King, MD, PhD (Oncology Fellow)
Originally from Long Island, NY, Dan trained at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, the University of Michigan (BS), Wayne State University (MD), the National Human Genome Research Institute (HHMI Research Scholars Program), Cambridge University (PhD), and Columbia University (Internal Medicine Residency). He enjoys mutation hunting in large-scale genomic data. He was most recently involved in an exome sequencing study of 12,000 children with rare disease and their parents, in which he developed new computational tools to identify large genetic aberrations. His mutational spectrum of interest includes uniparental disomy, copy number alterations, and mosaicism. He plans to explore research opportunities riding the intersection of new technology & genomics, such as single cell DNA & RNA sequencing, and circulating tumor DNA.
During oncology fellowship he has developed a passion for pancreatic cancer and specializes in caring for patients with pancreatic cancer in clinic with renowned medical oncologist Dr George Fisher. During fellowship his pancreatic research interests span the spectrum of translational research in pancreatic cancer. Several recent accomplishments include: 1) the development of a pancreatic cancer-specific circulating tumor DNA assay, the development of a pancreatic cancer research database containing thousands of patients who presented to Stanford with pancreatic cancer over the last twenty years, and the development of a large +500 sample biobank consisting of blood samples from generous pancreatic cancer patient study participants. -
Anna Mathia Klawonn
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Psychiatry
Current Research and Scholarly Interests My research evolves around deciphering the neural circuits of affective disorders. I am particularly interested in how affective and motivational states relate to each other and are encoded in the mesolimbic reward system. More specifically, I would like to find the neurocircuitry responsible for pathologies such as drug addiction, depression and negative affect during inflammatory disorders, in the hope that we can find better treatments against these.
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Nicole Krentz
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Endocrinology and Metabolism
Bio Nicole completed her PhD at the University of British Columbia under the supervision of Francis Lynn in 2018. Her PhD research focused on pancreas development and endocrine cell genesis using mouse embryos and human embryonic stem cell differentiation as models. In 2018, Nicole joined Anna Gloyn?s group at the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics at the University of Oxford. For her post-doctoral studies, Nicole is investigating the role of diabetes associated genes in pancreas development using genome-editing in human induced pluripotent stem cell models. In 2020, Nicole relocated to Stanford University where she will continue her post-doctoral research on the translation of genetic association signals for type 2 diabetes.
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Miri Krupkin
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Structural Biology
Bio My background is deeply rooted in structural biology and biochemistry of proteins and RNA. My current research focuses on understanding the regulatory role of RNA structures in HIV infection. To this end, I am focusing on revealing the conformational landscape of viral RNA during reverse transcription. I am also devoted to promoting science education and outreach.
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Devinder Kumar
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Psychiatry
Bio Devinder Kumar is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Medicine, Stanford University. His research centers around Deep Learning and its application in Computer Vision, Medical Imaging & Cognitive Neuroscience. Specifically, the research problem he is currently focusing on is: How to make interpretable computational AI models for various psychiatric disorders.
He obtained is PhD (Jan '17 - Jan '20) while working on explainable AI (XAI) at VIP lab - University of Waterloo and Machine Learning Research Group - University of Guelph where he was supervised by Dr. Alexander Wong (UWaterloo/ Canada research chair, AI & Medical Imaging) and Dr. Graham Taylor (UGuelph/ Vector Inst./ Canada research chair, ML Systems).
