Renske Dyedov, Ph.D.

Communications Manager, Molecular Engineering & Sciences Institute, University of Washington

Dr. Renske Dyedov manages communications for two research institutes at the University of Washington. Previously, she was a program management and communications consultant for clients including the Washington State Academy of Sciences, and Engineers and Scientists Acting Locally. Prior to that, she ran a leadership development program for graduate students hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was a Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the National Academies. She holds a PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology from the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in Chemical Biology from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Maryrose Franko, Ph.D.

Executive Director, Health Research Alliance 

Dr. Maryrose Franko sets strategic priorities and develops tools and programs to advance the goals of members of the Health Research Alliance (HRA). Dr. Franko previously worked in program management at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), including running graduate programs at the Janelia Research Campus and developing the Making the Right Moves guide. Dr. Franko was a founding board member of the HRA and initiated its early career-focused working group. She received a PhD in Molecular Genetics from the University of Southern California and a BS in Biology from John Carroll University.

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Postdoctoral Affairs Specialist, Van Andel Research Institute

Dr. Erica Gobrogge leads professional development for postdoctoral fellows at Van Andel Institute. Previously, Dr. Gobrogge was the Education and Professional Development Manager at the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Dr. Gobrogge also has served in multiple capacities with various science education and professional development projects at the local and national level. She earned a PhD in Molecular Microbiology at Washington University in St. Louis and a BA in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Hendrix College.

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Professor, Higher Education, Student Affairs, and International Education Policy Program
Dean, College of Education
University of Maryland

Dr. Kimberly Griffin is Dean of the College of Education and a Professor in the Higher Education, Student Affairs, and International Education Policy Program (Student Affairs Area of Specialization). Dr. Griffin's research interests are primarily focused in three areas: diversity and equity in graduate education and the professoriate; diversity within the Black higher education community; and mentoring and career development. She brings to the core pd|hub Collections team expertise in centering equity, inclusion, belonging, and justice in graduate education and career development.

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Professor, Higher Education
University of Alabama

Dr. Karri Holley is Professor of Higher Education at The University of Alabama. Her research examines interdisciplinarity, graduate education, organizational change in higher education, and qualitative inquiry. She currently works with evaluation efforts for projects focused on transformative graduate curricula (NSF NRT), the undergraduate transfer student pipeline into STEM disciplines (NSF S-STEM), and international higher education (USAID).

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Evaluation Consultant
Founder, PSYSTEM

Andrew Hartman (they/them), is a queer, Métis evaluator and applied social psychology Ph.D. candidate at the University of Saskatchewan. Andrew brings evaluation expertise to the design and execution of pd|hub's cross-Site  study, testing learner outcomes across the pd|hub Collection models. They have led evaluations at local and national levels utilizing an array of theoretical approaches and mixed-method designs. Their primary areas of focus are undergraduate and graduate student affairs programming, STEM pipelines, housing, 2SLGBTQ+ youth homelessness, gender-based violence, help-seeking, and psychological healing. Andrew has been sharing evaluation knowledge through evaluation workshops, assisting in graduate program evaluation course lectures, mentoring emerging evaluators, and presenting and publishing on queer and community-based participatory evaluation and research. Andrew has a love for evaluation and using evaluation to amplify the voices of those who access services.

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Sonia Hall, Ph.D.

President & CEO, BioKansas

Dr. Sonia Hall focuses on building the bioscience ecosystem in her role at BioKansas. Previously, Dr. Hall was Director of Engagement and Development at the Genetics Society of America and conducted postdoctoral research and training in academic administration at the UMass Chan Medical School. Dr. Hall has volunteered her time on the board of Future of Research. She earned a PhD in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and a BS in Biology at the University of Kansas.

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Professor of Microbiology, Director, Graduate Biomedical Sciences Immunology Theme,
Director, Undergraduate Immunology Program,
Associate Director, Medical Scientist Training Program,
University of Alabama, Birmingham

Dr. Louis Justement is a faculty member who is heavily involved in ensuring training and career opportunities for early career scientists. Dr. Justement is Vice President for Science Policy, Chair, Training and Career Opportunities Subcommittee, and President-Elect of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) and serves on the Society for Leukocyte Biology (SLB) Professional Development Committee. He holds a PhD and MS in Microbiology from the Ohio State University, and a BA in Microbiology from Miami University in Ohio.

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Victoria McGovern, Ph.D.

Senior Program Officer, Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Dr. Victoria McGovern runs the Career Guidance for Trainees program and the Infectious Disease and Population Health portfolios in her role at the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Dr. McGovern has served in many roles supporting scientific workforce development through organizations including the National Postdoctoral Association, American Society for Microbiology, and Genetics Society of America, and has written articles for Science Careers and the Carpe Careers blog. She earned a PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and BS degrees in Biology and English Literature at Washington University.

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Director, Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research
Principal Investigator, National Research Mentoring Network Coordination Center
Senior Scientist, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Christine Pfund (she/her) is a senior scientist with the Wisconsin Center for Education Research and the Department of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW). She is also director of the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experience in Research at UW-Madison (CIMER) and the principal investigator of the National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) Coordination Center. Dr. Pfund’s work focuses on developing, implementing, documenting, and studying interventions to optimize research mentoring relationships across science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM). Dr. Pfund co-authored the original Entering Mentoring curriculum and co-authored many papers documenting the effectiveness of this approach. She is a member of the National Academies committee that published the consensus report and online guide, The Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM.

Dr. Pfund and the CIMER team bring to the pd|hub Collections project years of experience leading training and support for implementation and evaluation in the graduate education sphere.

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Associate Dean of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies,
Frederick C. Neidhardt Collegiate Professor of Microbiology & Immunology,
University of Michigan Medical School

Dr. O’Riordan oversees graduate and postdoctoral training at the University of Michigan Medical School. Dr. O’Riordan joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in 2003 and previously was Associate Director of the Cellular Biotechnology Training Program. Dr. O’Riordan is a National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow. She received a PhD in immunology from the University of California, San Francisco, an MA in Molecular Biology from Princeton University, and a BS in Biology from the University of Washington.

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Shoba Subramanian, Ph.D.

Director of Curriculum and Educational Initiatives, University of Michigan Medical School Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

Dr. Shoba Subramanian directs the career and professional development team and leads curriculum and mentoring initiatives at the University of Michigan (UM) Medical School. Previously, Dr. Subramanian was the Assistant Department Head for Graduate Affairs at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), where she directly advised and taught hundreds of students, and received awards for educational innovation. She reformed the curriculum for CMU’s interdisciplinary MS in Computational Biology program, and helped found a new BS program in Biological Sciences at CMU-Qatar. Dr. Subramanian holds a PhD in Biological Sciences from CMU, and an MSc in Molecular Biology from the University of Madras.

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