STEM@CSM

Science-in-Action Speaker Series

Spring 2025

Date	Time	Location	Speaker
03/19/25	5-6 pm	Jon Gjemso Video Recording	Jon Gjemso  Nuclear Engineer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
04/16/25	5:15-6:15 pm	Esther Muñoz  Video Recording	Esther Muñoz  Post-Doctoral Scholar on Archaeal Gene Evolution at Stanford University
04/30/25	5-6 pm	Nicholas Mejia  Video Recording	Nicholas Mejia Post-Doctoral Experimental Physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Fall 2024 

Date	Time	Recording	Speaker
09/18/24	5-6 pm	Angel Pilar Video Recording	Angel Pilar  Professor of Mathematics at College of San Mateo
10/16/24	5-6 pm	Alejandro Garcia Video Recording	Alejandro Garcia  Professor and Researcher of Physics and Astronomy and SJSU
11/13/24	5-6 pm	Gerardo Ramirez Video Recording	Gerardo Ramirez   Vice President of Administrative Services at College of San Mateo

Archive

Fall 2023

Date	Time	Location	Speaker
09/13/23	5-6 pm	36-109 and Zoom Registration	Chad Kealoha, B.S.  Senior Product Support Engineer
10/18/23	5-6 pm	36-109 and Zoom Registration	Adeyma Arroyo Network Technology Leader
11/15/23	5-6 pm	36-109 and Zoom Registration	Victor Zendejas Lopez Mechanical Engineering PhD student at the California Institute of Technology

Spring 2023

Date	Time	Location	Speaker
02/15/23	5-6 pm	36-109 and Zoom Registration	Dr. Jennifer Ortiz Cárdenas Director, Stanford Microfluidics Foundry
3/15/23	5-6 pm	36-109 and Zoom Registration	Nathan Churches, Ph.D. Celja Uebel, Ph.D
4/12/23	5-6 pm	36-109 and Zoom Registration	Vanessa Suárez Pérez Senior Policy Advisor for Carbon180

Fall 2022

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Title
09/14/22	5-6 pm	Virtual & In Person 36-110	Juan Medina-Echeverria, M.S.	From Redwood City to Chicago: Pursuing Medical School Dreams as a First-Generation College Student
10/19/22	5-6 pm	Virtual & In Person 36-319	Dustin A. F. Janatpour	How to Collaboratively Apply Your Education to Real-World Problems
11/16/22	5-6 pm	Virtual & In Person 36-110	Zachary C. Janatpour, M.D., Ph.D.	Accept. Adapt. Act: Lessons from My Journey

Spring 2022

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Title
02/16/22	5-6 pm	Virtual & In Person 36-319	Humberto Castillo Project Engineer M.S., UC Berkeley	Dream Big
03/16/22	5-6 pm	Virtual	Justin Arredondo-Guerrero PhD Candidate, Immunology	Stanford Medicine Grads: Engaging Community College Students in STEM Research
04/06/22	5-6 pm	Virtual	Sneha Ramakrishna Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Instructor Stanford University School of Medicine	Stanford Medicine Grads: Engaging Community College Students in STEM Research

Fall 2021 

Date	Speaker	Title
09/25/21	Pablo Sobron, PhD	Family Science Day Keynote - Mars 2020/Perseverance Rover: Searching for Life on Mars
10/06/21	Sean Yamada-Hunter, PhD Teni Anbarchian PhD	Stanford Medicine Grads: Engaging Community College Students in STEM Research
10/20/21	Cecilia Ramello PhD Vali Barsan, MD	Stanford Medicine Grads: Engaging Community College Students in STEM Research
11/03/21	Alex Doan, Medical Student, Stanford University Wendy Wenderski, Ph.D.	Stanford Medicine Grads: Engaging Community College Students in STEM Research

Spring 2021 

Date	Speaker	Title
02/17/21	Tara Murty Dr. Elena Sotillo	Stanford Medicine Grads: Engaging Community College Students in STEM Research
03/03/21	Pam Rios Samuel Haile, PhD	Stanford Medicine Grads: Engaging Community College Students in STEM Research )
03/17/21	Andres R. Vindas Melendez	Navigating Mathematical Spaces Through Collaboration and Community
03/24/21	Nery Barrera	Dreams Are Never Big Enough: Navigating College as an Engineering Major
04/28/21	Jaleh Janatpour	I'm the Happiest Person I Know: My Fulfilling Career in Animal Care

Fall 2020

Date	Speaker	Title
09/26/20	Dr. David Des Marais	Astrobiology and Mars Exploration
10/01/20	Caroline Arrellano Garcia Shabnum Patel	Stanford Grads: Engaging Community College Students in STEM Research
10/15/20	Louai Labanieh Becky Richards	Stanford Grads: Engaging Community College Students in STEM Research Pt. II Q&A)
11/04/20	Joel Gallegos	It All Started With Mathematics
11/18/20	Meghan Nolan Catherine Su	From CSM to Cal: UC Berkeley Alum in Conversation-Persevering Through a Pandemic

Spring 2020

Date	Speaker	Title
03/04/20	K.M-Stanford Grad Student	My Unique Path to Becoming a Genetic Counselor

Fall 2019

Date	Speaker	Title
09/11/19	Charlotte Kiang	My Journey From Liberal Arts to Aerospace Engineering
09/18/19	CSM Student Panel	Summer Internship Experiences
09/25/19	Mark Douglass	Community College to Stanford Medical School
10/10/19	Skylar Payne	Success in Computer Science Through Resilliance
10/23/19	Oscar Medina	My Journey  in Asthma Research
11/20/19	Larry Taylor	My Journey Into Paleontological Research

Spring 2019

Date	Speaker	Title
02/06/19	Hector Gomez	From CSM to UCSF:My Journey Into Neuroscience Research
03/15/19	Colleen Carpenter, PhD	Pharmacology and Epilepsies
03/27/19	Cathy Samayoa, PhD	Breast Cancer and Health Disparities in Latinas
04/10/19	Jose Gutierrez	My Journey from Community College to a Career in Engineering
04/26/19	Mohsen Janatpour	Science, Art, and Emotion: A Personal Journey

Fall 2018

Date	Speaker	Title
09/19/18	CSM Student Panel	Summer Internship Experiences
10/11/18	Steven Altamirano	Seizing Incremental Career Opportunities as a Software Engineer
11/07/18	Amber Moore	How Immune Activation During Pregnancy Can Alter Placental and Fetal Health
11/14/18	Mary J. Janatpour, PhD	My Journey From CSM to Vice President of Oncology Research
11/28/18	Susan J. Fisher, PhD	The Placenta: Science and Science Fiction

Spring 2018

Date	Speaker	Title
02/21/18	Patti Siguenza	From CSM to Genentech: What I Learned Along the Way
03/07/18	Marcella Gomez, PhD	The Math Behind Cell Signaling in Biology
04/11/18	Carlos Schuler, PhD	Success in Biotechnology

Fall 2017

Date	Speaker	Title
09/13/17	Student Panel	Bridges to Bacclaurate
09/14/17	Sasha Denisin	Sasha Denisin - Mechanobiology
11/08/17	Michael Reddick	Chemical and Bio Engineering