Dr. Boyana Konforti, Editor of Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Boyana Konforti obtained her Ph.D. with Ronald Davis at Stanford University, where she studied DNA recombination. She did her postdoctoral work in pre-mRNA processing at The Rockefeller University with Magda Konarska and then went on to study catalytic RNAs at Columbia University with Anna Marie Pyle. She joined
Nature Structural Biology in 1999 and moved to Cell Press as Senior Editor of Cell and Molecular Cell and Executive Editor of Structure in 2001. She rejoined Nature Structural & Molecular Biology in 2003.
Organized by: Manasi Bhate
Dr. Elnaz Menhaji-Klotz – Pharmaceutical Recruiting from the Student Perspective
Dr. Menhaji-Klotz will be discussing the Columbia pharmaceutical recruitment process and will offer her suggestions towards maximizing your own experience. Dr. Menhaji-Klotz graduated from Barnard College in 2002, conducting undergraduate research with Professor Christian Rojas. She spent a year doing research at Trinity College Dublin with David Grayson’s lab before returning to the states to begin her graduate studies. She obtained her Ph.D. in 2008 from Yale University studying under Professor John Wood. She currently holds a post-doctoral position with Professor Tristan Lambert at Columbia University and will be joining AstraZeneca as a discovery chemist in January 2010.
Organized by: Brendan Kelly
Dr. Charli Long, Interdisciplinary Scientst at the Food and Drug Administration
Dr. Charli Long is an Interdisciplinary Scientist/Reviewer in the Office of New Animal Drug Evaluation at the Food and Drug Administration Center for Veterinary Medicine in Rockville, MD. Dr. Long received her B.S. in Chemistry at Barnard College in 2000, conducting research with Professor Christian Rojas. She then spent one year in Lima, Peru under a Fulbright Scholarship. Dr. Long obtained her Ph.D. studying the synthesis of tamandarin analogs at the University of Pennsylvania under the direction of Professor Madeleine Joullie in 2006.
Organized by: Ethan Fisher
Dr. Steve O’Malley, Stuyvesant High School Organic Chemistry Teacher
Dr. Steven O’Malley is an organic chemistry teacher at Stuyvesant High School in New York City. Dr. O’Malley received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1999. He obtained his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2004 under the mentorship of Professor James Leighton for his work on intramolecular silylformylation reactions and their application to the total synthesis of dolabelide D. In 2004, Dr. O’Malley took a post-doctoral position at the University of California, Berkeley with Professor Jon Ellman.
Organized by: Sam Reznik
The 2009 Atwal Symposium
(1) Transforming the Culture of Organic Chemistry Learning — Karen Phillips, Hunter College
(2) To Teach or not to Teach: Careers in Education Panel — Luis Avila, Columbia University; Brenton DeBoef, University of Rhode Island; RubenL. Gonzalez, Jr., Columbia University; Emily McLaughlin, Bard College; Karen Phillips, Hunter College
Organized by: Margaret Elvekrog, Ethan Fisher, Paul Vadola
ACS Preparing for Life After Graduate School workshop (PfLAGS)
Post-doc panel discussion
Pervaze Sheikh, Specialist in Natural Resources Policy — Resources, Science, and Industry Division — Congressional Research Service
