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Research Program Mentors

Polygence mentors are selected based on their exceptional academic background, teaching experience, and unique ability to inspire the next generation of innovative thinkers and industry leaders.

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Richard

Richard

MA

Expertise

Mathematics

Nabila

Nabila

PhD candidate

Expertise

Psychology-mental health and well-being. Examining developmental populations, and themes of race/racism, poverty, the family, school, and community contexts. Mindfulness and academic trajectories for kids and youth.

Will

Will

PhD candidate

Expertise

Ethics, Political Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Interdisciplinary Work with Philosophy and the social sciences, Writing for the Humanities, philosophical ideas in film and literature

Cody

Cody

Industry expert

Expertise

Music, Film Scoring

Emma

Emma

PhD candidate

Expertise

Analyzing gene expression in neurons, fruit fly neurons, neuroscience, cell biology

Isabella

Isabella

PhD candidate

Expertise

clinical psychology (e.g., development and treatment of psychological disorders), neuroscience (e.g., neurocircuitry of fear and stress), social and cognitive psychology

Courtney

Courtney

MPA

Expertise

Business, Environmental Policy, Writing, Editing, Arts, Sustainability, Renewables

Armen

Armen

PhD candidate

Expertise

Clinical (i.e., abnormal) psychology, child psychology, developmental psychopathology, cognitive development, research methods, basic statistics (e.g., ANOVA, regression)

Claire

Claire

PhD candidate

Expertise

Resource recovery, water and wastewater treatment, renewable energy, air pollution control in environmental engineering, data analysis using R programming, engineering for developing communities (WASH), environmental sustainability, nanotechnology, electrochemistry

Merci

Merci

PhD

Expertise

Alzheimers, neuroscience, neurodegenerative disease, cell biology, axon initial segment, tau protein, human brain

Nashali

Nashali

PhD candidate

Expertise

Neuro-immunology, behavioral neuroscience, depression, antidepressants, Alzheimer’s, gut-brain axis

Kathleen

Kathleen

PhD

Expertise

genetics, gene editing, reproductive biology, infectious diseases

Sierra

Sierra

MBA candidate

Expertise

Business development, sales, marketing, product management, cross-team communication, internet of things, B2B networking, business presentation building

Jaclyn

Jaclyn

PhD candidate

Expertise

Physics, mathematics, chemistry, visual arts, design, biomechanics

Monika

Monika

PhD candidate

Expertise

Public Health, Public Policy, Political Science, Survey Methods, Sexual & Reproductive Health

Ashley

Ashley

PhD candidate

Expertise

Designing, engineering, and testing cancer immunotherapies, biological and bioengineering research

Alexa

Alexa

PhD candidate

Expertise

Drug discovery, microbial interactions, environmental microbiology, genome mining, bioengineering

Arpit

Arpit

MS

Expertise

AI/ML, Programming, Career Guidance, Computer Science, Software Eng, AppDev

Lauren

Lauren

PhD candidate

Expertise

Cell and Molecular Biology

Abhishek

Abhishek

MD candidate

Expertise

My degrees are in Biomedical Engineering from Columbia University and a Masters in Bioengineering from UCSD. I am an expert in tissue engineering, drug delivery, imaging analysis and disease.