Huge congratulations to Shohini Banerjee, who defended her PhD today! Shohini joined the Stroka lab in August 2021, coming in with a clear passion for women's health research and endometriosis. Her dissertation focused on how hormonal and mechanical microenvironmental cues regulate dynamic cellular processes during endometriosis progression using accessible in vitro models. Shohini’s PhD work has resulted in 10 papers (5 first author), with 4 published, 5 in revision or submitted, and 1 in preparation. Shohini has presented her research at multiple national and international conferences, including the BMES annual meeting, the Society for Reproductive Investigation Annual Meeting, and the Congress of the Society of Endometriosis and Uterine Disorders (SEUD) in Geneva, Switzerland. She has received several fellowships and awards in support of her work, including the Clark Doctoral Fellowship, the Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship, a travel award from SEUD, and the Goldhaber Travel Award. She was also selected to attend the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Public Policy Institute in Washington, DC, and was a Clark School finalist in the Three Minute Thesis competition. Shohini has been a dedicated mentor to two undergraduate BIOE students in the lab - notably Esha, who received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and is now in a BME PhD program at RPI, and Nane, who was selected into our BS/MD program. Beyond her research, Shohini has served as a Writing Center Writing Fellow and is a woman of many talents - she plays flute in the UMD orchestra and is an accomplished dancer. Congratulations, Shohini!
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