Jane Hung
Originally a Seattleite, I joined Broad last year as a graduate student in the Imaging Platform (a.k.a. Anne Carpenter’s lab, a.k.a. the CellProfiler group) coming from MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering. In my research, I apply deep learning techniques to cell classification in microscopy images.
I have experience creating and organizing Broad events as Meetings and Events Officer, in particular last term’s “Facing Forward with Eric Lander” seminar and the scikit-learn workshop with Eric Ma. Besides Broad, I have also been involved in Graduate Women at MIT (GWAMIT) as event lead for their Empowerment Conference and main organizer of their Orientation Welcome.
It’s important to me to set up events that are directly relevant to the trainee community and are unique to Broadies. I would like to leverage our network by inviting more leaders to participate in the Facing Forward series, connecting with more contacts in academia and industry for career development events, providing more hands-on workshops, and continuing with the career and social developments events already running. Of course, trainees themselves often have the best ideas, and I want to provide a platform where all members of the trainee community can easily contribute their thoughts. I am looking forward to seeing everyone at the events!
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Hey everyone! My name is Colles Price and I am a 2nd year Broad-affiliated postdoc working in the Hahn lab as part of the Cancer Program. As part of the Broad community this past year I have had the pleasure to participate in several Broad groups and events, including the NextGen association. I believe NextGen serves as an important organization to support and bolster graduate students and postdoctoral students and I look forward to helping produce programs that will prove useful and interesting. I plan to build upon and expand the excellent academic and career training NextGen currently provides as well as build more opportunities for social interaction. In my vision of the NextGen I hope to continue to connect graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and create an environment where we can all share our diverse and various knowledge and experiences. In addition if I am elected I will be an avid voice for Broad trainees and work to provide resources and skills so trainees are able to succeed. I have proudly served on similar organizations in the past. In my undergraduate studies I have been part of the student government association and as a graduate student I was part of the graduate student association. Now, as a postdoc I am excited for the potential opportunity to represent all trainees and be one of the NextGen chairs. Thank you everyone!
My name is Martine Therrien and I am a first year post-doc at the Broad. I arrived last winter in Boston but I can already see that the NextGen association is incredibly important for us, trainees, and is part of what makes a big difference in our success here at the Broad but also in our career. The previous chairs have done an amazing job and I would like to continue working in this line of thought. As a chair, I will encourage networking activities among students and post-doc, advocate for equity and favor many diverse career development seminars. We all have different backgrounds, different paths and after our journey at the Broad we will all have different careers. I think NextGen is here to help us achieve our goal and prepare us for the future. The training offer should be diverse and suits for students and post-doc. Also, through NextGen we should learn from each other’s expertise and from previous Broadies.
