A native of the sunny coasts of Puerto Rico, Roberto grew up in one of the best surfing spots on the island, Isabela. He earned his bachelor’s in biomedical sciences from The University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla. Not long after, he completed his post-baccalaureate at The Ohio State University in Maize molecular genetics. His fascination with…

Tamuka “Muk” Chidyausiku, Ph.D was born and raised in Zimbabwe, and moved to the United States for his undergraduate degree. He graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Biology from Claflin University. After Claflin, Tamuka completed a post-Baccalaureate certification at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research before moving on to complete his Masters & Ph.D in…

Joel Encarnacion-Rosado is a Ph.D. candidate and HHMI Gilliam fellow at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine, conducting his research in Dr. Alec Kimmelman’s lab. Joel obtained his BS at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, where he was a RISE and MARC fellow. What was one of the low points…

Jenea I. Adams graduated from the University of Dayton with a BS in Biology and a Minor in Computer Science from the University of Dayton. As a Ph.D. Candidate in Genomics and Computational Biology at Penn and a member of the Yi Xing Lab in the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Center for Computational and Genomic…

Dr. Garcia-Buntley is a scientific project manager for the antibody characterization laboratory supporting the Clinical Proteomics Tumor Analysis Program. Prior to her role at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, she pioneered the use of inhibitors to determine how nutrient availability affects the growth of the Lyme disease pathogen as a postdoctoral fellow at…

Dr. Marcus Lambert is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Associate Vice President for Research Strategy & Operations for the SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University campus. Learn more about his scientific journey and what they’re doing now. In his current role, Dr. Lambert focuses on initiatives to expand Downstate’s extramurally funded…

Daniel Salas-Escabillas is a 4th year Ph.D. candidate in the University of Michigan’s Cancer Biology Ph.D. Training Program. Learn more about their scientific journey and what they’re doing now. They were born and raised in Guam and Daniel is a Native CHamoru from the island. Before going to The University of Michigan and after their bachelor’s…

Nadia Herrera, Ph.D. is currently a president’s postdoctoral fellow at the University of California San Francisco. Herrera began attending ABRCMS as an undergraduate student in 2009 and now attends as a postdoctoral scientist. We conducted a short interview with her to learn more about her scientific journey. What was has been a low point or challenge…