Beyond The Postdoc

Written by Tara Schwetz, Ph.D. I set foot on the Vanderbilt campus for the first time in 2009. With its brick buildings, southern charm, and impressive reputation, its distinct allure called me to do my postdoc there. I spent 3 years (from late 2009 to late 2012) in Dave Piston’s… Read More

Written by Inga Saknite, Ph.D.  Department: Dermatology (VUMC) PI: Eric R. Tkaczyk, MD, PhD PostDoc experience at Vanderbilt: From 2017 to 2021, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Vanderbilt Dermatology Translational Research Clinic (VDTRC), directed by Dr. Eric R. Tkaczyk. As a physicist from a small country in Northern… Read More

Dr. Rupinder Kaur is currently an Assistant Professor at University of Illinois Chicago. Her research is focused on exploring the dynamic interplay between hosts and their microbial symbionts, with a central focus on Wolbachia—a widespread intracellular bacterium that manipulates host reproduction and provides antiviral protection in arthropods. She uses a… Read More

Dr. Prasobh Padmanabhan, an former member of the Vanderbilt postdoctoral community, currently serves as the Engineering Manager at Qmet Tech, a key contributor to India’s National Quantum Mission. In this role, he oversees a multidisciplinary R&D team advancing the development of the Quantum Diamond Microscope and Quantum Magnetometer. “By leveraging Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV)… Read More

Dr. Vineeta Sharma, a former member of the Vanderbilt postdoctoral community, currently serves as a Staff Scientist in the Morphology Core Facility at Meharry Medical College, where she advances mechanistic understanding of disease through innovative cell-based models and state-of-the-art imaging technologies. Her work leverages 3D culture systems, laser-scanning confocal microscopy,… Read More

Written by Anneke Sanders, Ph.D. My name is Anneke Sanders, I was a postdoc from 2015 to 2020 at Vanderbilt. I worked in the Kaverina lab in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology in the School of Medicine, where I studied the mechanisms that drive and regulate non-centrosomal microtubule… Read More

Written by Chris Smith, Ph.D. I am a neuroscientist by training receiving my Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2014. I was a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Psychology at Vanderbilt in the lab of David Zald (who has since… Read More