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President
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Dr. Nafisa M. Jadavji
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National Chapter
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E-mail: jadavji@gwis.org
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Dr. Nafisa (n uh -f ee - s ah) M. Jadavji (j aa - d uh v - j ee) is a Neuroscientist. She is an Assistant Professor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, as well as Research Professor at the University of Arizona, and Carleton University. She completed her doctoral training at McGill University in Montréal, Canada. Currently, her laboratory investigates how the brain responds to different biological processes throughout the lifespan. More specifically, her lab studies how the brain responds to changes in one-carbon metabolism, with a specific focus on maternal nutrition contributions to offspring neurodevelopment, neurological diseases (e.g. ischemic stroke and vascular dementia), and aging. |
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President-elect
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Kalaivani Saravanan
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Syracuse Chapter
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E-mail: saravanan@gwis.org
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Kalaivani Saravanan is a motivated 5th-year Ph.D. Candidate in Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology Department at SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York. She is doing her Ph.D.
in Dr. Patricia Kane's lab who is one of the pioneers in the proton pump V-ATPase field. Her research
with the Kane lab uses super-resolution microscopy, genetics, and biochemistry to study the low-level
signaling lipid PI(3,5)P2 interaction to the unique proton pump V-ATPase. Earlier studies from Kane's lab
suggest that V-ATPase and PIP lipids crosstalk with each other. But lots of recent studies suggest that this
low-level signaling lipid is involved in various key cellular processes such as endocytosis, protein trafficking,
and ion homeostasis, and hence perturbation in this lipid leads to various diseases as well. So, Kane's lab
tries to look at the mechanism of how these two biomolecules interact specifically during the hyperosmotic
shock in Yeast.
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Vice-President
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Brooke Long-Fox
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Black Hills, SD Chapter
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E-mail:
long-fox@gwis.org
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Dr. Brooke Long-Fox is a Data Curation Scientist at Phoenix Bioinformatics (Newark, California) and an ADVANCE Project Coordinator for South Dakota Mines (Rapid City, SD). She received her PhD in Geology and Geological Engineering from South Dakota Mines (2022), an MS degree in Paleontology from South Dakota Mines (2016), and a BS in Geology with a minor in Environmental Science from Texas Christian University (2014). Brooke’s research is in the multidisciplinary field of conservation paleobiology, which intersects ecology and evolutionary biology with aspects of time and space that are more commonly found in paleontology and geology. Dr. Long-Fox is dedicated to FAIR open access biological data and advocating for equity and inclusion in STEM. Dr. Long-Fox serves the community as a member of the Building an Integrated, Open, Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable
(BIOFAIR) Data Network’s leadership team, the 2024 DEI committee chair for the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE), and as a founder and past President to the Black Hills Chapter of
Graduate Women in Science (GWIS).
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Past President |
Dr. Amanda Koenig
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Mid-Michigan Chapter
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E-mail: koenig@gwis.org
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Dr. Amanda Koenig is received her PhD from Michigan State University in Genetics and Molecular Plant Sciences in 2022. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory. Her research involves studying systemic lipid signaling and plant development in response to abiotic stress. She served as the Vice-President for GWIS from 2021 - 2022.
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Treasurer |
Anna Kowalkowski
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Madison Chapter
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E-mail: kowalkowski@gwis.org
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Anna Kowalkowski is in the Physiology Graduate Training Program at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Her lab is interested in how the intestine develops. She examines how this
development can can disrupted on a cellular level and how these
changes can lead to a loss of intestinal continuity using an intestinal
atresia mouse model (an Fgfr2IIIb-/- model). She also investigated the
role of the extracellular matrix in guiding the development of specific
subregions of small intestine.
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Editor |
Dr. Courtney Ragle
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| Email: ragle@gwis.org |
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Recording & Corresponding Secretary
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Dr. Isola Brown
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Mid-Michigan Chapter
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Email: browniso@gwis.org
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| Dr. Isola Brown is Director of Online Graduate Programs in Pharmacology and Toxicology. She earned her PhD in Pharmacology and Toxicology/Environmental Toxicology at Michigan State University and completed postdoctoral training at the
University of Virginia. Dr. Brown has previous research experience in the areas of gastrointestinal and cardiovascular physiology and pharmacology. Her introduction to GWIS was as a member and leader in the Mid-Michigan Chapter. |
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