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The StemJazz community is happy to celebrate recent faculty promotions at Brown University. Professor Emilia Huerta-Sanchez has been promoted to Full Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology and now serves as Director of the Center for Computational Molecular Biology.

Our community is proud to celebrate Associate Professor Ritambhara Singh (Data Science and Computer Science, CCMB) on receiving an NSF CAREER award. Her project advances graph-based methods to integrate heterogeneous health data—medical records, neuroimaging, and genetics—to build more predictive and explainable tools that support individualized treatment.

A new TEDx talk titled “The Power to Try” has been released, authored by Assistant Professor Malik Boykin. Dedicated to the speaker’s late father, the talk honors his pioneering scholarship and enduring influence.

Congratulations to Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology Emilia Huerta-Sanchez for her recent publication in the Science Journal. The paper titled ‘The MUC19 gene: An evolutionary history of recurrent introgression and natural selection’ is available online in this link.

Congratulations to Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Ian Wong on his most recent publication in Nature Cell Biology! Here is the paper link and name: Vimentin intermediate filaments as structural and mechanical coordinators of mesenchymal cells.

Recent Research Matters Series speaker Silverio Johnson has now successfully defended his thesis, “Swimming Kinematics of Enterobacter sp. SM3.” Below is his abstract: Enterobacter sp. SM3, is a recently-isolated species of gut bacteria that proficiently spreads over nutritional substrates—-a motility pattern called swarming.

STEMJazz alums Lynae Brayboy, Kiara Lee and Kathryn Thomson just published a new paper. In one of the very first STEMJazz talks, Lynae laid out her study of granulosa cells and their role(s) in human fertility.

Dr. Juliana Londoño Alvarez has a wonderful new paper on a type of recurrent neural network. A member of the 2024 StemJazz Provost Cohort, her research interests include how we can use the way that the architecture of a neural network shapes its dynamics to develop more efficient models of brain functions like locomotion and complex movement sequences, and translating theoretical research to further bridge the gap between life sciences and mathematics.

Ritambhara Singh, a member of the Center for Computational Molecular Biology at Brown University, will be a tenured Associate Professor on July 1, 2025. Her research lab develops machine learning methods with the goals of data integration and model interpretation for biological and biomedical applications.

Polymath data scientist Hilarie Sit, Provost’s STEM Postdoctoral Fellow, just got an acceptance to CHI 2025 to present a paper entitled “Access InContext: Futuring Accessible Prototyping Tools and Methods.” And here are the reviews!