Join us for a Career Connections panel exploring how building relationships can help your career. Our panelists will talk about how they weave networking into every day, their experiences with mentorship, and how they nurture relationships within their workplace and career development.
Panelists:
Ana Eguiguren - PhD candidate, Whitehead Lab
Ana Eguiguren is a doctoral student from Ecuador currently working at the Whitehead Lab, in Dalhousie University. Her Ph.D. research is focused on describing and analyzing the social behaviour of sperm whales.
Ana is passionate about science education and is particularly interested in strategies to teach coding and statistical analysis that is inclusive and welcoming. This is why she started a YouTube channel dedicated to introducing R programming and statistics for Spanish speakers - R Con Anita.
Alison Foo - Career, Communication, and Leadership Coach
Alison Foo loves changing lives through teaching practical skills as a Career, Communication, and Leadership Coach, a Clinical Research Professor, and through volunteering. She has a BScH in Life Sciences from Queen's University, a MSc in Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology from the University of Toronto, and a Project Management Professional designation from the Project Management Institute. In her personal life, she loves spending time with her rescue dog, watching Asian TV, doom scrolling through TikTok, and eating snacks.
Dr. Michelle Asbury, MSc PhD
Dr. Michelle Asbury is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Departments of Physiology & Pharmacology and Pediatrics at the University of Calgary. She completed her Master’s and PhD degrees in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Toronto. Michelle also had the privilege of serving as President of the International Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation’s Trainee Interest Group for the past 3 years. Michelle is now working with Dr. Marie-Claire Arrieta to characterize the complex nutritional and immunological “system” of human milk and explore how these different milk components work together to shape the developing microbiome and immune system of preterm infants enrolled in the Alberta BLOOM study. Michelle’s research is generously supported by postdoctoral fellowships from the Killam Laureates, Molly Towell Perinatal Research Foundation, and L’Oreal Canada-UNESCO.
AI-generated closed captions will be available to all participants (English only). If you cannot make it to a live session, we encourage you to register to receive a link to the recording following the event.