We are pleased to announce our keynote speakers, Dr. Kandice Tanner and Dr. David Parichy.
Dr. Kandice Tanner, Senior Investigator, Head of Tissue Morphodynamics section, NIH/NCI. Website: https://ccr.cancer.gov/staff-directory/kandice-tanner
Dr. Kandice Tanner is a Trinidadian physicist researching the metastatic traits that allow tumor cells to colonize secondary organs. She is currently a Senior Investigator (full tenure) at the National Cancer Institute, where she is head of the Tissue morphodynamics section. She received her doctoral degree in Physics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She completed post-doctoral training at the University of California, Irvine specializing in dynamic imaging of thick tissues. She then became a Department of Defense Breast Cancer Post-doctoral fellow jointly at University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory under Dr. Mina J. Bissell. Dr. Tanner joined the National Cancer Institute as a Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator in July 2012 and received tenure at NIH in 2020. For her work, she has been awarded the 2013 National Cancer Institute Director’s Intramural Innovation Award, the 2015 NCI Leading Diversity award, 2021 NCI Director’s award for Basic Science, the 2016 Young Fluorescence Investigator award from the Biophysical Society and named as a Young Innovator in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering in 2016 by the Biomedical Engineering Society. She is also a fellow of the American Physical Society.
Dr. David Parichy, Pratt-Ivy Foundation Distinguished Professor of Morphogenesis, University of Virginia. Lab website: https://parichylab.org/#parichylab
Dr. David Parichy is a broadly trained biologist who works at the interface of developmental mechanisms and the evolution of adult phenotypes. Growing up in NYC, he subsequently received a B.A. in Biology from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, where he studied evolutionary and ecological aspects of maternal effects in the frog Bombina orientalis. He then moved to UC Davis where he received a Ph.D. in Population Biology for studies of pigment pattern evolution in salamanders, while working with Drs. Carol Erickson and Bradley Shaffer. For his postdoc, he switched to the genetically tractable zebrafish, focusing on similar questions in this species and its relatives with Dr. Stephen Johnson at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Dr. Parichy took an Assistant Professor position at University of Texas at Austin in 2000, where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2004. He moved to University of Washington in 2005 where he was promoted to Professor. In 2017, he began a position as the Pratt-Ivy Foundation Distinguished Professor of Morphogenesis in the Department of Biology at University of Virginia. Since obtaining his first independent position his lab has continued to study pigmentation but also various other topics including skeletogenesis, scale development, post-embryonic growth, shoaling behavior, and the natural history of zebrafish in the wild.