Wednesday, May 28th at 12pm PST

#BIBPSResearch

The webinar will be 1 hour long and will feature 2 speakers: one graduate student and one postdoc. Each speaker will give a 20min presentation and have 10min for Q&A. This event will not be recorded.

The #BIBPSResearch webinar will highlight the research of two biophysicists: one graduate student and one postdoctoral researcher. The goal of the event is to highlight the scientific contributions of Black biophysicists and to encourage the next generation of Black scientists to learn and study biophysics. Speakers include PhD candidate McKenze Moss and postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Trevor Grand Pre.

Speaker bios:

McKenze Moss is a sixth-year graduate student in Dr. Patricia L. Clark’s lab at the University of Notre Dame. Her research focuses on probing co-translational folding intermediates of a kinetically stable protein. McKenzee did her undergraduate degree in Chemistry at Xavier University of Louisiana, and she is currently an NSF-GRFP fellow. She enjoys brainstorming experiments with her lab mates, but outside of the lab, she can be found playing video games, being a plant-mom or binging Netflix.

Trevor GrandPre I Scientist | LinkedIn

Dr. Trevor GrandPre is an alumnus of DePaul University and the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned his Bachelor’s degree in Physics in 2014 and his Ph.D. in 2021. Since 2021, he has been an independent postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Physics of Biological Function (CPBF) and the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science (PCTS), as well as a Schmidt Science Fellow. In the Fall, he will begin a faculty position as an Assistant Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis.