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Outreach, service, mentorship

Current community service roles
at departmental, institutional, and national levels

Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell

  • Co-organizer of the monthly Postdoc Professional Development Workshops, 2025 - 

​​Cornell University

  • Cornell Postdoc Association Board Member, 2025 - 

Genetics Society of America (GSA)

  • Engagement and Professional Development Committee Member, 2025 - 

  • GSA Undergraduate Travel Award Committee Member, 2025 - 

  • Postdoc Representative to the GSA Board, 2024 - 

The Drosophila Board

  • Drosophila Trainee Awards Committee Member, 2025 - 

Lab Equipment Access Program (LEAP)
 

Hands-on science education is instrumental to spark students' interests in STEM. However, many public schools lack necessary resources to incorporate science labs to their curriculum. To tackle this social issue, I founded the Lab Equipment Access Program (LEAP) at Caltech in early 2022. As the founder and president of LEAP, I worked with a team and many volunteers from across Southern California. In 1.5 years, we recycled over 1,000 pieces of lab equipment and supplies to support hands-on science education at under-funded schools in rural California. Under my leadership, LEAP obtained long-term support from a private foundation and became affiliated with the Caltech Y, a 501c3 nonprofit organization, in summer 2023. Now, LEAP continues to make tangible impacts to transform science education across local communities. To learn more, check out: leap.caltech.edu

GSA Accessibility in STEM (AiS) Workshops
 

I am deeply passionate about community service and making science education and research more accessible for everyone. As a founding member of the accessibility subcommittee at the Genetics Society of America (GSA), I led the effort to design a new virtual workshop series called Accessibility in STEM (AiS), which promotes accessibility for early-career scientists with disabilities. I planned, organized, and moderated the first two AiS workshops on teaching and research environments, respectively, attracting hundreds of live audience. AiS workshops are now freely available on YouTube with closed captions.

To learn more, check out: genetics-gsa.org/accessibility-in-stem-ais-workshop-series/

Research mentorship
 

I am fortunate to have had fantastic mentors in my scientific career. I aspire to pay it forward by mentoring the next generation of biologists. Since the graduate school, I have closely mentored many students and trainees at the bench, and I take pride in their accomplishments. 

mentored role

  Cornell:

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2026-

2026-

2026-

2026-

2026-

2026

2026

2026

2025-26

2025-26

2025-26

2025

2025

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   Caltech:

2022-23

2022

2021-23

2021

2019

2019

 

Jizheng Li

Marco Pellegrini

Nicholas Lee

Austin Wang

Lydia Olivieri

Sofia Girotti

Jieyu Chen

Max Greene

Srinidhi Raghavan

Lilly Horowitz

Hamna Waseem

Gloria Nien **

Ivy Ng

Angelina Zheng

 

 

Eunice Park

​Iván Argandona

Katherine Pan

Suchitra Dara

Victor Garcia

Kyley Burkey

 

undergrad researcher

undergrad researcher

undergrad researcher

undergrad researcher

research technician

undergrad researcher

undergrad researcher

Nexus student

Nexus student

undergrad researcher

undergrad researcher

undergrad researcher

undergrad researcher

undergrad researcher

 

 

undergrad researcher

FSRI student

undergrad researcher

undergrad researcher

rotation student

Amgen scholar

subsequent position

 

 (ongoing)

 (ongoing)

 (ongoing)

 (ongoing)

 (ongoing)

 (ongoing)

undergrad at Cornell

undergrad at Cornell

undergrad at Cornell

undergrad at Cornell

undergrad at Cornell

undergrad at Cornell

undergrad at Cornell

undergrad at Cornell

 

 

PhD student at MIT

undergrad at Caltech

MD student at Harvard Medical School

PhD student at MSK Cancer Center

PhD student at Caltech

MD/PhD student at University of Kansas

** Gloria's research is supported by the Morley & Brody Undergrad Research Funds from Cornell. 

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