Bioinformatics Career Mentoring 2025

Bioinformatics Career Mentoring 2025
Friday, November 7, 2025
Georgia Tech Alumni House
190 North Avenue NW, Atlanta, GA 30313

Agenda:
8:15-8:30am = Arrival/Check-in 
8:35-8:45am = Welcome, Professor King Jordan
8:50-9:20am = Internship Panel
9:25-9:55 = Job Search Panel
9:55-10:05 = Break
10:05am-12:25pm = Table Topics 
Students to switch tables every 20 minutes

Alumni Panel:
Yashas Appaji, Bioinformatics PhD Student at UCLA
Tomas Bruna, Genome Data Scientist at Berkeley Lab's Joint Genome Institute
Paramita Chatterjee, Scientific Operations Lead at Emory University Human-Algorithm Collaboration Lab (HACLab)
Meghna Godbole, Sr. Clinical Data Associate at Eli Lilly
Shashwat Nagar, Senior Scientist at CRISPR Therapeutics
Shreya Rajasekar, Bioinformatics Analyst, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Krithika Ravindran Naidu, Staff Software Engineer at Illumina

Internship Panel:
Aarushi Gajri, Graduate Intern in Molecular Profiling and Data Science at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Sanya Badole, Digital Transformation Intern in the Biotherapeutics department at Boehringer Ingelheim
Kristen Donahue, Performance Analytics Summer Internship at Oldcastle APG
Shikhar Verma, Production Bioinformatics Software Engineering Intern at Natera
Zoey Yang, Computational Chemistry Intern at Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Table Topics:
Yashas Appaji, "Pursuing a PhD in Bioinformatics"
Tomas Bruna, "Bioinformatics Work in the Government"
Paramita Chatterjee, “The Future of Bioinformatics Careers in the Age of AI: Where Students Can Shine in the Next 5 Years”
Meghna Godbole, “Careers in Clinical Data Management”
Shashwat Nagar, "Industry Trends"
Shreya Rajasekar, "Networking"
Krithika Ravindran Naidu, "The Hiring Process - Behind the Scenes"