Jenea and Melyssa discuss Dr. Finley's journey into professorship as a computational researcher/mathematical biologist.

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Dr. Stacey Finley is Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Quantitative & Computational Biology, at the University of Southern California and the inaugural holder of the Nichole A. and Thuan Q. Pham Professorship. Dr. Finley received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Florida A & M University and obtained her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University. She completed postdoctoral training at Johns Hopkins University in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Finley joined the faculty at USC in 2013, and she leads the Computational Systems Biology Laboratory. Dr. Finley has a joint appointment in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, and she is a member of the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Finley is also a standing member of the MABS Study Section at NIH. Her research has been supported by grants from the NSF, NIH, and American Cancer Society.

Selected honors. 2016 NSF Faculty Early CAREER Award; 2016 Young Innovator by the Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering journal; Leah Edelstein-Keshet Prize from the Society of Mathematical Biology; Junior Research Award from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering; the Hanna Reisler Mentorship Award; 2018 AACR NextGen Star; 2018 Orange County Engineering Council Outstanding Young Engineer; 2021 Elected Fellow of American Institute for Biological and Medical Engineering; 2022 Elected Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society

Lab website: https://csbl.usc.edu/

Lab Twitter: https://twitter.com/USCSysBio_Lab

Follow Dr. Finley's student, Diamond Mangrum, on Instagram (author of the paper referenced by Ijeoma in the episode): https://www.instagram.com/melanated.phd/?hl=en . She aims to demystify the Ph.D. process!

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The CompBio Cafe Podcast is brewing up fresh perspectives in the CompBio world. Hosts Jenea Adams and Melyssa Minto, PhD are two trained computational biologists who serve the Black Women in Computational Biology Network (BWCB).

Learn more about us at linktr.ee/bwcb.

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Jenea and Melyssa discuss opportunities and experiences attending conferences from the perspective of diversity, belonging, and accessibility.

What are your thoughts on ways that conference organizations can increase accessibility and broaden participation? Let us know by emailing podcast@blackwomencompbio.org or leave a voicemail at +1-302-715-2922.

Links mentioned :

• https://binningsingletons.com/
• https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.04.588111v2.full

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The CompBio Cafe Podcast is brewing up fresh perspectives in the CompBio world. Hosts Jenea Adams and Melyssa Minto, PhD are two trained computational biologists who serve the Black Women in Computational Biology Network (BWCB).

Learn more about us at linktr.ee/bwcb.

Subscribe to CompBio Cafe wherever you get your podcasts, and leave us a review once you've listened to a few episodes.

In this episode, Ijeoma guest hosts a conversation with Francesca Tuazon, Founder and CEO of Science&. Science& uplifts the next generation of cutting-edge scientists with skills from the visual, written, and performance arts. We enter the world at the intersection of art and data storytelling in science.

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The CompBio Cafe Podcast is brewing up fresh perspectives in the CompBio world. Hosts Jenea Adams and Melyssa Minto, PhD are two trained computational biologists who serve the Black Women in Computational Biology Network (BWCB).

Learn more about us at linktr.ee/bwcb.

Subscribe to CompBio Cafe wherever you get your podcasts, and leave us a review once you've listened to a few episodes.