NM Postdoc Research Symposium
Annual New Mexico Postdoc Research Symposium
An annual Research Symposium supporting and encouraging postdocs across the state of New Mexico to present their research, network, exchange ideas, meet future employers and collaborate.
Friday, March 28th 9-4:30pm, University of New Mexico
Thank you to all of the presenters, judges, panelists, attendees, and organizers!! Please fill out this brief <1 min survey: https://forms.gle/j9JSBW3wyJyX2k7c6 if you participated (or care to let us know why you did not).
Presentation Award Winners
Oral First Place:
Zonnie Gorman, "The Navajo Code Talkers, World War II, and the Navajo Code"
Oral Second Place:
Sumira Phatak, "Gestational ozone exposure drives cell type specific alterations in neuronal transcriptomics: insights from single nucleus sequencing"
Oral Third Place:
Daphne Siciliani, "A previously undescribed arsenal of toxic molecules offers important insights over African lungfish estivation"
Poster First Place:
Nikki Maphis, "Drinking to Dementia: Is excessive neural firing responsible?"
Poster Second Place:
Fiona Bell, "Developing Sustainable Biomaterials for 3D Printing"
Poster Third Place:
Joshua Williams, "Machine learning approach to identifying and cataloging rampart craters on Mars"
UNM is hosting the only statewide research symposium for postdocs on Friday, March 28, 2025. Similar to last year we are expecting participants from national labs and other academic institutions, as well as attendees from industry. This is the perfect event for you to attend if you are looking for a new position, a highly-skilled doctoral level employee, opportunities to collaborate, or you would like to share your research and see what other research is happening in our state! While abstract submission is only open to postdocs, faculty, staff, and grad students are all welcome! See links below for abstract submission and application for travel awards for presenters coming from outside of Albuquerque. We will also feature an Early Career Advice Panel and Keynote Speaker Shalini Low-Nam, Asst. Professor at Purdue University who will deliver a talk titled Molecular mechanisms of CAR T cell activation: roles for single cells and single molecules.
RSVP and SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT (must be a postdoc to present) HERE: https://forms.gle/2UbU7Ypi7rwHtdQj7
To be considered for a short talk, please submit your abstract by February 28th
Abstract submission for poster presentations will remain open until March 14th
| 9:00 - 9:50 am | Registration | Hallway outside CNPHE 1601 |
| 9:50 - 11:40 am | Short Talks | CNPHE 1601 |
| 12:00 - 1:00 pm | Keynote Address | Fitz Hall 303 |
| 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Lunch (Provided to registrants) | CNPHE 1601 |
| 2:00 - 3:00 pm | Early Career Advice Panel | CNPHE 1601 |
| 3:00 - 4:00 pm | Poster Presentations | CNPHE 1601 |
| 4:15 - 4:30 pm | Awards Announcements | CNPHE 1601 |
2025 NM POSTDOC SYMPOSIUM PRESENTERS
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
10:00AM to 11:40AM
| Time slot | Name | Title |
1 | 10:00 – 10:10 | Zonnie Gorman | The Navajo Code Talkers, World War II, and the Navajo Code |
2 | 10:10 – 10:20 | Bharat Poudel | Thermal Degradation Energetics of Fentanyl and Its Analogues: Furanyl Fentanyl and Ortho-Fluoro Fentanyl |
3 | 10:20 – 10:30 | Luis Amador | Determinants of genetic diversity in global amphibians |
4 | 10:30 – 10:40 | Shiba Biswal | Control of Complex Systems with Applications in Collective Behavior and Machine Learning |
5 | 10:40 – 10:50 | Geisianny Moreira | Fungal tolerance to lead exposure under varying environmentally relevant conditions |
6 | 10:50 – 11:00 | Ruth Torres | Custom Virtual Reality (VR) programs for Active Learning: New Programs from the Innovative Media Research and Extension (IMRE) Department |
7 | 11:00 – 11:10 | Sumira Phatak | Gestational ozone exposure drives cell type specific alterations in neuronal transcriptomics: insights from single nucleus sequencing |
8 | 11:10 – 11:20 | Hermann Kahle | A new star in the sky: The membrane external-cavity surface-emitting laser (MECSEL) |
9 | 11:20 – 11:30 | Daphne Siciliani | A previously undescribed arsenal of toxic molecules offers important insights over African lungfish estivation |
10 | 11:30 – 11:40 | Tyler Bateman | Learning to care about thriving and survival: Knowledge, emotion, and identity at an urban nature centre |
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
3:00PM to 4:00PM
| Name | Title |
11 | Kalina Fahey | Examining intersecting identities to understand opioid use and health experiences in sexual and gender minority adults |
12 | Nina Christie | Cannabis Use and Purchasing Behaviors in New Mexico Following Recreational Legalization |
13 | Rowan Converse | Validating a remote sensing / machine learning framework for wildlife monitoring |
14 | Aditya Venkatraman | Multi-fidelity augmented time-series emulation |
15 | Paprapee Buason | Beyond Traditional Linearizations: Enhancing Power Flow Approximations with Second-Order Sensitivities |
16 | Chinonso Ugwumadu | Multi-scale Study of Galactic Irradiation in Spacecraft Materials |
17 | Daniel Staros | Correlation Effects on Electrical and Magneto-Transport Properties of Actinides |
18 | Christopher Leon | Using Machine Learning to Speed Up the Computations of Coherent Synchrotron Radiation |
19 | Sun Young Kang | Unveiling the Impact of Elemental Contaminants on Liquid Alkaline Water Electrolyzers: Toward a More Resilient and Efficient System |
20 | Iris Denmark | Electrochemical development of graded density materials for ramp loading |
21 | Drew Skidmore | Characterizing the Gut Microbiome of Wild Peromyscus Sonoriensis from New Mexico |
22 | Yusen Yuan | Intermittent, Heterogeneous, and Transient River-Groundwater Transitions from Disconnection to Connection |
23 | Nikki Maphis | Drinking to Dementia: Is excessive neural firing responsible? |
24 | Fiona Bell | Developing Sustainable Biomaterials for 3D Printing |
25 | Pieter Vandenberge | Sensitivity of confinement losses in optical fibers to modeling approach |
26 | Joshua Williams | Machine learning approach to identifying and cataloging rampart craters on mars |
27 | Wassie Takele | Nanoimaging of Water Bending and Carboxylate Stretching Modes in Colloidal Nanocrystal Films |
28 | Alex Francian | Exploiting Mosquito Salivary Proteins to Develop Vector-Targeted Vaccines for Malaria and Arboviruses |
29 | Elizabeth Bailey | Effects of TCR and CD28 co-activation on PD-1 phosphorylation |
30 | Ryan Betters | Stress-induced changes to neurotransmitter co-transmission in the medial septum is sex-dependent and reversed by fluoxetine |
31 | Seaton Ullberg | Discovery of Stable and Performant Energetic Materials via High-Throughput Computations and Machine Learning |
32 | Vasudevan Sekar | High-Resolution Spatial Mapping Of Oral Epithelium: Role Of HuR On Oral Mucositis |
33 | Gabriela Chacon Palma | The Relationship between Rate of Hypernatremia Correction and Outcomes in Hospitalized Patients |
34 | Valeria Montenegro | Investigating the Role of HSD17b11 in Lipid Droplet Biology |
35 | Samu John | RNA Binding Protein FXR1 Promotes Immune Evasion and T-Cell Suppression in Head and Neck Cancer |
Questions:
RaqThomas@unm.edu
afrancian@salud.unm.edu
