Catch six creative #scicomm focused research talks at the WiSE SciComm Symposium Friday afternoon! .
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Atma Ivancevic is a bioinformatics postdoc in the Chuong lab at CU Boulder. She studies ancient viruses: genetic parasites that invaded our ancestors millions of years ago and embedded themselves within our DNA. Her postdoc project focuses on determining how viral-derived sequences continue to affect us, by changing the expression of nearby genes and potentially causing diseases such as cancer. Prior to joining CU, Atma lived in Adelaide, Australia, where she completed a Bachelor in Applied Maths, PhD in Genetics, and one-year postdoc in Neuroscience at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital. In her spare time, Atma moonlights as a writer for Nature Careers (previously Naturejobs) and enjoys swimming and skiing.
Fun fact: She knows how to flyboard and once won a hoverboard in a science raffle.
This Friday is the 2019 SciComm Symposium! In addition to invited science communication professionals, six graduate students and post docs will share their fascinating research. .
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Colleen McCollum is a first-year graduate student in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at CU. Prior to joining the Chatterjee lab, Colleen worked for two years at Array Biopharma in Boulder, a company focused on cancer therapeutics, which introduced her to the complex world of drug discovery and development. She is currently interested in novel ways to treat drug-resistant bacterial infection, including using peptide nucleic acids to target pathogens and using photoactivated quantum dots to kill bacteria via superoxide generation. For being an engineer and scientist, Colleen loves to draw, and has been working on science-themed doodles and comics for the antibiotic resistance outreach program (https://www.amrconsortium.org/armor.html) she helped found.
