The Networking and Community Building (N&CB) Subcommittee of CUPS is committed in fostering social networking opportunities for postdocs within Columbia University to meet each other. The events organized by N&CB will increase morale and enhance the sense of community for postdocs at Columbia University. Most notably, some of the main activities organized include Happy Hours held on a monthly basis at external locations close to Morningside and Medical Center campuses. In addition to the Happy Hours, N&CB also organizes outings to Upstate New York (such as the Annual Ski Trip), trips to places of cultural interest in NYC (like the brand new CUPS HEART to discover NYC´s art institutions), and watching current films (Movie Tuesdays). The future goal is to build a University-wide community of postdocs by promoting social and professional interactions among its members. The activity of N&CB has already greatly contributed to this cause, and will further continue doing it in the future.
If you want to know more about our current projects or have an event idea, contact us at cups_networking_community@columbia.edu.
Subcommittee Members
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Institute for Cancer Genetics
Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, Dept Civil Eng & Eng Mechanics
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering; Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Chemical Engineering
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Biological Sciences
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Chemical Engineering
Upasana Roy holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stony Brook University. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, where she studies how DNA damage is repaired. She uses microscopy techniques to visualize in real-time how DNA repair complexes are assembled and regulated. She is currently the vice-chair of the Research & Professional Development Committee at CUPS.
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dept Microbiology & Immunology
Student, College of Dental Medicine: Post-Graduate Dental
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Genetics and Development
Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Medicine
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Neurology
Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology
CUPS Research and Professional Development Alumni
Chemistry, Barnard College
Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Biological Sciences
Sandra has a PhD in Neuroscience from UAB (Barcelona). She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology at Columbia University. Her research is focused on understanding the role of mitochondria-endoplasmic reticulum interactions in the pathophysiology of muscular dystrophy.
Sandra is the Co-Founder of the Outreach & Communications Committee (created Jan 1, 2019) and currently its Chair.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Institute for Cancer Genetics
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Medicine, Dept of Medicine Cardiology
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Ophthalmology
Obtained BS (2008) and MA (2010) from the University at Buffalo and PhD (2015) from University of Florida.
Currently Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Dept of Pathology&Cell Biology.
The Columbia University Postdoctoral Senator - the Columbia postdoctoral community is welcome to contact by email with any issues related to their professional experience. Any communications are confidential.
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Biological Sciences, Dept of Biological Sciences
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Biological Sciences, Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Biological Sciences
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Systems Biology
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Biological Sciences
Olaya obtained her PhD in Neuroscience from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain). She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Pediatrics. Her research focuses on describing the neuronal circuits implicated in anorexia nervosa, especially those related to brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) signaling.
Through CUPS and the Networking and Community Building sub-committee she is dedicated to bringing postdocs together in discovering live and people outside of their labs and venturing further than the end of their benches.
Besides science, she enjoys musicals, cooking/baking, obstacle races, hiking and talking (very loudly!).
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Medicine
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience
The editor-at-large and chairman of the CUPS newsletter
Adjunct Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Micaela holds a PhD in Medical Physics, with a focus on Radiobiology, from Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University (France). She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Radiological Research and her project is funded by NASA through the Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH). She is currently developing a mechanistic model to assess the risk of carcinogenesis induced by space radiation and, more particularly, to address the need for radioprotective chemical agents that will protect astronauts from developing cancer later in life.
Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Dept of Pathology&Cell Biology
Marie holds a PhD in Neuroscience from ETH Zurich (Switzerland). She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Columbia University in the Department of Psychiatry. In her work she uses in vivo methods and genetic tools to understand the neural circuits that regulate motor function.
Marie is also the Co-Founder (& Former Chair) of the Outreach & Communications Committee (created Jan 1, 2019) and currently its Vice-Chair. She is the Founder and Editorial Manager of the CUPS Blog. Her top goal is to develop & expand its sections: Meet our Postdocs, Science Stories and Event Highlights as well as to engage in Outreach activities across NYC.
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Taub Institute
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology
Adjunct Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Dermatology
Lecturer in the Discipline of Biological Science
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Systems Biology
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Medicine
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Physics
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology; Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory
Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Radiation Oncology
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Chemistry
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute
Associate Research Scientist in the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering
Adjunct Associate Research Scientist in the Taub Institute
Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Neurology
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering; Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Dept of Biomedical Engineering
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Dept Biochemistry/MolBiophyscs
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Systems Biology
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology at the Columbia University Medical Center
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Systems Biology, Department of Systems Biology
Dhru obtained a PhD is Cancer Biology from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, TX. Currently he is a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the Department of Biomedical Engineering where he studies the effect of bacterial toxins on lung cancer.
Having a strong interest in visual art and being an extroverted, people-oriented person, Dhru is involved with the social media management for CUPS and organizing a series of art events, named "CUPS HEART" as part of the networking committee.
CUPS Research and Professional Development Alumni
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology; Lecturer in Ecology Evolution and Environmental Biology
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Neurology
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Pathology and cell Biology
Chloé Pasin is a Postdoctoral Reseach Scientist in the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology at Columbia University. Her research focuses on identifying immunologic factors associated with the evolution of the clinical state of a patient after hematopoietic stem cell transplant.
Chloé is a member of the Outreach & Communications Committee and hopes to help improving women’s representation in STEM fields.
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Dept of Pathology&Cell Biology
Adjunct Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Carlos B. Rueda Diez holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and a M.Sc. in Molecular Biomedicine from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain). He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Neurology at Columbia University, New York.
His research is focused on uncovering the molecular mechanisms of Glut1 deficiency, a pediatric neurodegenerative disease. His research interests are mitochondria, neurobiology and metabolism. Carlos is involved in STEM teaching and volunteers for educative purposes and is also interested in scientific divulgation, in order to bring research advances to public awareness.
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Dermatology
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Neurology, Department of Neurology
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Chemistry
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Dental Medicine
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Ophthalmology, Department of Ophthalmology
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry
Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Medicine
Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Medicine
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Chemistry