Adam Filipowicz did his undergraduate studies in Biological Sciences at the University of Chicago, received his PhD in Neuroscience from Oregon Health & Science University, and is now a postdoctoral fellow in Patrick Allard’s laboratory at UCLA. His PhD dissertation examined the neural and molecular mechanisms of pathogen avoidance using the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans. This work was published in eLife, BMC Biology,…
PhD Sociology, UCLA Robbin Jeffries Hein is an Assistant Project Scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a sociologist of science, medicine and technology. Dr. Jeffries Hein specializes in feminist social science research on the environmental and reproductive politics of health, developmental models of health and disease, and environmental epigenetics. She is also a member of the…
Heather Dron is a historian of medicine and public health who studies pregnancy, prenatal care, and infant disability. She completed her PhD in history of health science at the University of California San Francisco in 2016 and is a former fellow at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics Her dissertation examined research on environmental exposures during pregnancy in the mid-twentieth century…
PhD, Geography Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Jonah Walters is a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow supported by the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics and the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African-American Studies. He is a member of the Lab for BioCritical Studies, directed by ISG professor Terence Keel. He is at work on a book about “less-than-lethal” weapons,…