Postdoc Slam winner Jin Kim, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar at UCSF, presents her research about smoking cessation through addressing food insecurity. Photo by Noah Berger
Jin Kim, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar at UC San Francisco, won the inaugural UCSF Postdoc Slam competition for her talk titled “Promoting Smoking Cessation by Addressing Food Insecurity.”
Postdoc Slam 2016
Ten UCSF postdocs competed to explain complex research in simple language – and in three minutes or less.
Ten UCSF postdocs competed to explain complex research in simple language – and in three minutes or less – in the 2016 Postdoc Slam held Sept. 22. In front of a packed audience in Byers Auditorium, the contestants spun true tales of science ranging from cancer risk in astronauts to big molecule drug development to the protective benefits of the X chromosome.
Kim, a postdoctoral scholar in the research group of Janice Tsoh, PhD, won first place and a prize of $3,000.
“The intersection between food insecurity and smoking is not an obvious link to many people and I wanted to share that with a wider audience,” Kim said. “I’m really honored to be the only social scientist as part of this contest and I hope I conveyed the passion for the research that I do on health disparities.”
Navneet Matharu, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar in the lab ofNadav Ahituv, PhD, took home both the $1,500 runner-up and $750 people’s choice awards with her dynamic talk entitled, “How to Balance Your Satiety: From Sim(1) to Slim,” on how nucleotide changes can contribute to obesity.