The final session of Dr. Emily Van Syoc's Fellowship Training Series is a “Bring Your Own Fellowship” workshop, where participants can receive peer review on drafts and strategize future funding plans.
Emily has invited a panel of current or former postdoctoral fellows funded by NSF, NIH, USDA, and a private foundation:
This series is brought to you with thanks to Dr. Christina Grozinger, Director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences; Dr. Camelia Kantor, Associate Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Huck; and Dr. Seth Bordenstein, Emily's mentor and Director of the One Health Microbiome Center.
Like all OPA programs, registration is required.
Biography, Dr. Emily Van Syoc
Emily is a second-year NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow working with Dr. Seth Bordenstein in the Department of Biology and One Health Microbiome Center. Prior to postdoctoral training, Emily received her Ph.D. from Penn State with Drs. Erika Ganda and Connie Rogers, Master’s degree from the University of Wyoming with Dr. Linda van Diepen, and Bachelor’s degree from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Emily has successfully obtained multiple training fellowships and independent research grants, including an NIH/PSU T32 Predoctoral Fellowship, USDA NIFA-AFRI Predoctoral Fellowship, and an NIH F32 Postdoctoral Fellowship. Emily credits her grantsmanship prowess to multiple fantastic mentors who encouraged writing early and often, with many rejected proposals along the road to success. Emily’s postdoctoral research is elucidating the genetic and evolutionary influences on the fungal community that inhabit human gastrointestinal tract – the ‘gut mycobiome’ -- in collaboration with Dr. Emily Davenport in the Department of Biology.