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đ <span style="font-weight: 700;">PIZZA HOUR with the PDA! </span></div>
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Take a break and join fellow postdocs for a relaxed lunchtime Pizza Hour hosted by the PDA! Catch up with colleagues, meet new postdocs, and hear brief updates from PDA officers about upcoming events and opportunities.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">When: </span>12:30pm-1:30pm, Tuesday, May 26th</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Where: </span>In person E25-401<span style="font-weight: 700;"> </span></div>
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âď¸ <span style="font-weight: 700;">Summer Travel Advisory </span></div>
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Planning international travel this summer? MIT International Scholars Office encourages all non-U.S. citizens, including scholars on non-immigrant visas and U.S. permanent residents, to carefully review travel risks and requirements before leaving the U.S.
Key reminders include consulting with an ISchO advisor, checking visa stamp validity, notifying your MIT DLCI, confirming DS-2019 travel signatures for J-1/J-2 scholars, and reviewing guidance on electronics, research data, and MIT travel registration. A few
hours of preparation before departure can make a big difference. Please review the ISchO guidance and contact your ISchO advisor or ischo@mit.edu with questions.</div>
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đź <span style="font-weight: 700;">Industry Career Panel </span></div>
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Are you interested in exploring career paths beyond academia? Join us for a discussion with panelists from industry and startups who will share their experiences, insights, and advice on making the transition.</div>
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Lunch provided by the PDA.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">When:</span> 1:00pmâ2:30pm, Friday, May 15th</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Where:</span> E19-202 + Zoom</div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Zoom link:</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="https://mit.zoom.us/j/94504852607" id="OWA36a47cd9-79f9-0698-0129-621246121cc6" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><u>
</u></a></span><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://mit.zoom.us/j/94504852607" id="OWAadab29f4-0ff8-f013-5a8a-691dedc1550a" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><u>https://mit.zoom.us/j/94504852607</u></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Register and submit questions:</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
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PDA Industry Career Panel</u></a></span></div>
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Steven Rick â Solutions Architect at NVIDIA</div>
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Jonathan Cottet â Senior Applications Engineer at Parallel Fluidics </div>
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Blaise Delaney â Applied AI/ML Researcher and Startup Leader</div>
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Medha Rath â Senior Scientist at Amgen</div>
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đś <span style="font-weight: 700;">Postdoc Karaoke Night! </span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We rented out the newly renovated on campus bar, The Thirsty Ear Pub, located in
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Come drink cheap beer, socialize with other postdocs and SING your little scientist heart out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">When: </span>7:00pm-10:00pm, Thursday, May 21st</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Where: </span>Thirsty Ear Pub in Ashdown House</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Bring: </span><u>State ID, MIT ID, Cash, your best karaoke performance</u></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;"> đ˛ Postdoc Board Games Night!</span></div>
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Our monthly event brings together postdocs from across MIT to relax and have some fun together. We gather after work to eat free food and play some games â everything from Jenga to Risk (you decide how intense an evening youâd like). We have a selection of
games, but feel free to bring your own games from home to play!</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">When</span>: 6pm-8 pm, Thursday, May 14th </div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Where</span>: E25-401</div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Sign up</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">:
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For questions, please reach out to <u>pda-community@mit.edu</u>.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">⨠MIT Postdoc Spotlight Series</span></div>
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Each month, we highlight two exceptional MIT postdocs whose research, leadership, mentorship, and personal journeys are shaping the future of science and our community. </div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Michael DesgagnĂŠ</span></div>
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Michael DesgagnĂŠ is a postdoctoral researcher at MIT developing innovative therapies for metastatic prostate cancer by targeting proteins once considered âundruggable.â His work combines advanced technologies like peptide-encoded libraries and automated-flow
peptide synthesis to discover novel cancer therapeutics that could reduce chemotherapy side effects and improve patient outcomes worldwide. </div>
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Michaelâs journey has also been shaped by resilience â during his PhD, he stepped into a leadership role after the unexpected passing of his supervisor, mentoring students and helping keep the labâs research moving forward during a difficult transition. Beyond
science, he is deeply committed to mentorship, inclusion, and supporting fellow researchers in their career development.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Fun facts:</span> Although highly social, Michael describes himself as an introvert, loves Mu Lan restaurant, and hopes to one day open his own research lab in Canada.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Sharmelee Selvaraji</span></div>
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Sharmelee Selvaraji is a postdoctoral researcher in the Anikeeva Lab at MIT, where she studies the gut-brain axis of Parkinsonâs disease and explores how gene-environment interactions influence disease progression. Her research focuses on early intervention
strategies and identifying biomarkers that could help detect Parkinsonâs before significant neuron loss occurs. In a major milestone, Sharmelee spent nearly two years securing rare human tissue samples from Parkinsonâs patients, bringing her work one step
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Beyond research, she values mentorship, collaboration, and MITâs highly interdisciplinary environment, which she says has pushed her to think beyond conventional boundaries and grow as an independent scientist. Inspired by the mentorship of Polina Anikeeva,
she hopes to one day lead her own research team while contributing to science communication and policy.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Fun facts:</span> Sharmelee is trilingual, originally from Singapore, enjoys relaxing by the Charles River, and jokingly says her long eyelashes are one of her signature traits!</div>
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Grad Student Council (GSC) Monthly Events </span></div>
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The Graduate Student Council has kindly put together a monthly event announcement just for postdocs! Many of their events are open to the entire MIT community, and theyâve put a lot of effort into making us feel welcome. Itâs a great opportunity to connect
with grad students and share interests. Letâs show our appreciation by joining their activities and building stronger ties across our communities! </div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Check it out here: </span><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="http://gsc.mit.edu/current-anno" id="OWA8c474e71-3d2e-8bc2-d32b-9d2d13aadf97" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><u>GSC Event Announcements</u></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;"> đ New to MIT? Join a Postdoc Orientation!</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">New postdocs are welcome to sign up for a<a href="https://pda.mit.edu/pins/postdoc-orientation/" id="OWAb2a13b87-1f29-6ea4-207a-3656c46394bc" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><u>
</u></a></span><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://pda.mit.edu/pins/postdoc-orientation/" id="OWA1271e1ee-4bb5-11b9-8103-2bc7c880165f" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><u>Postdoc Orientation</u></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">,
hosted by the PDA in collaboration with Human Resources and Postdoctoral Services. It will be a great opportunity to meet other new postdocs, learn about postdoc-specific benefits, and ask any questions you may have about Boston MIT. </span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The orientation sessions are held monthly and you can sign up
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Bonus: Lunch and refreshments will be provided! Hope to see you there!</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">đ Travel Guidance</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">MIT has prepared travel guidance cardsâone version for U.S. citizens and permanent residents, and another for non-citizens and non-residents. We encourage
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;"><i>everyone</i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> to carry the appropriate version when traveling internationally, as a precaution for the foreseeable future. The reference cards can be found
</span><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 700;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YUdTqEYacl5rx8z5EqYXrXGQXm8FHymx?usp=share_link" id="OWA47b335af-7ae7-5430-3799-b5b0d4b5c47c" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><u>here</u></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. </span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">International Travel Guidance â ISchO:
</span><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://ischo.mit.edu/news/update-international-travel-guidance" id="OWA857fdf07-a976-aff2-f73d-bf5844e15327" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><u>https://ischo.mit.edu/news/update-international-travel-guidance</u></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Legal Considerations â Office of the General Counsel: </span></div>
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<a href="https://ogc.mit.edu/system/files?file=documents/guid_internat_trav_law_enforc_search_leav_enter_mar-2025.pdf&check_logged_in=1" id="OWA053c0235-1f5e-fb4c-3c7a-c61ed0ce6055" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><u>https://ogc.mit.edu/system/files?file=documents/guid_internat_trav_law_enforc_search_leav_enter_mar-2025.pdf&check_logged_in=1</u></a></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">On-Campus Guidance for Interactions with Immigration and Law Enforcement: </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Loaner Laptops for International Travel â ISchO: </span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">đŹ </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Join the Slack channel:</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
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