New correspondents for the Node – welcome!

Let’s welcome the three new Node correspondents – Dosh Whye, Mariia Golden and Shefali! We look forward to working with them to bring you a wide range of content and perspectives for the Node. Stay tuned for their posts over the coming year.

Dosh Whye serves as the assistant director of the Human Neuron Core, where he leads the cell development and differentiation efforts to build complex 3D neural organoid models using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from pediatric patients with rare genetic neurodevelopmental disorders. Dosh has close to 20 years in the stem cell field, and he continues to be fascinated by the power of pluripotent cells and the technological advancements of stem cell applications in the fields of science & medicine. He plans to serve as a correspondent for several international stem cell research conferences, and he’s also inspired to write a Q&A blog series profiling many brilliant scientists in the stem cell field.

Mariia Golden is a third-year PhD student moving from Goethe University Frankfurt to Marburg University, Germany. She investigates dynamical morphogenetic events in insect development. She is passionate about live imaging and working with non-model organisms. As a Node correspondent, Mariia wants to promote diversity among the organisms we choose for our research questions through a series of interviews with established scientists who are enthusiastic about the topic. She also would like to highlight the topic of motherhood and scientific career, because she truly believes that the status quo should change in order to put a stop to the “brain drain” through female scientists. 

Shefali is a fifth-year PhD student in the Tennessen Lab at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is broadly interested in inter-organ metabolic signaling, and her current research focuses on how glucose metabolism coordinates the brain-body growth signaling axis during Drosophila melanogaster brain development. Shefali also serves as the elected graduate student representative on the FlyBoard, where she has been working towards creating more mentoring opportunities for early career scientists. Beyond work, she enjoys learning various Latin-style dances and singing classic Hindi songs (which is her mother tongue). As a Node correspondent, she is eager to combine her scientific interests with her commitment towards building a strong and empowered scientific community. She looks forward to writing not only about the emerging field of inter-organ metabolic signaling, but also about unconventional scientific journeys, community resources, importance of mentoring, and bring in her perspective as a trainee to support incoming graduate students.

Our sister community site FocalPlane also announced their three new correspondents. Meet the new FocalPlane correspondents.

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