NSYCC | ACS Younger Chemists | Boston, New England

ALT Flyer for the ACS Younger Chemists Committee Career Symposium 2026, Panel #3: Careers in Industry, Nov 14, 2026, 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM. Headshots of six panelists: Adam Gilbert, Science Partner, Flagship Pioneering; Michelle Garnsey, Associate Research Fellow, Pfizer; Carolyn Cohen, Principal Scientist, Process Chemistry, AbbVie; Daniel La, Vice President, Head of Chemistry, Triana Biomedicines; Darby Schmidt, CSO, Violet Therapeutics; Alison Gao, Principal Scientist, Novartis. Text: Six chemists share how they built careers in industry and what it takes to move from bench to pipeline. Location: Brandeis University, Mandel Center, Abraham Shapiro Academic Complex. Sponsored by Sanofi, ChemScene, MedChem Boston, Seqens and Brandeis University. Links: tinyurl.com/nsycc-symposium and nsycc.org.

ALT Graphic for the ACS Younger Chemists Committee Career Symposium, Career Consultations: CV Review. A photo shows Marika McCann smiling, with shoulder-length brown hair and a red top. Text reads: "Marika McCann, Associate Director, Brandeis University." Her bio describes over 15 years coaching graduate students in STEM and social sciences at Brandeis and the University of Michigan, and her work helping students tell their story on a resume, CV or in an interview. Event location: Brandeis University, Mandel Center, Abraham Shapiro Academic Complex. Register at tinyurl.com/nsycc-symposium. More at nsycc.org.

ALT Graphic for the ACS Younger Chemists Committee Career Symposium, Career Consultations: CV Review. A photo shows Songwen Xie with dark hair pulled back, glasses and a brown collared shirt. Text reads: "Songwen Xie, PhD, Director of BS in Chemistry/MS in Pharmaceutical Chemistry Program, Professor of Chemistry." Her bio describes her role at MCPHS, nearly 20 years as an ACS career consultant, and her work as head mentor for the US National Chemistry Olympiad. Event location: Brandeis University, Mandel Center, Abraham Shapiro Academic Complex. Register at tinyurl.com/nsycc-symposium. More at nsycc.org.

ALT Graphic for the ACS Younger Chemists Committee Career Symposium, Panel #5: Innovative Careers in Science. A photo shows Dan Wilson smiling, with short dark hair and a blue button-down shirt. Text reads: "Dan Wilson, Principal Research Scientist, Kostas Research Institute." His bio describes his Adaptive Materials and Sensing group at Northeastern University, which develops stimuli-responsive materials including sensors, communication tools and next-generation colorants. Event location: Brandeis University, Mandel Center, Abraham Shapiro Academic Complex. Register at tinyurl.com/nsycc-symposium. More at nsycc.org.

ALT Graphic for the ACS Younger Chemists Committee Career Symposium, Panel #5: Innovative Careers in Science. A photo shows Madison McMinn smiling outdoors, with shoulder-length brown hair and a red sweater. Text reads: "Dr. Madison McMinn, Field Service Applications Chemist II, Waters." Her bio describes her 2025 Ph.D. in Chemistry from Northeastern University and her work training labs across the Americas in LC-MS method development. Event location: Brandeis University, Mandel Center, Abraham Shapiro Academic Complex. Register at tinyurl.com/nsycc-symposium. More at nsycc.org.

ALT Graphic for the ACS Younger Chemists Committee Career Symposium, Panel #4: Graduate School 101. A photo shows Kate Fitzpatrick in black and white, smiling, with glasses, a long braid and a lab coat. Text reads: "Kate Fitzpatrick, PhD Student, Brandeis University." Her bio describes her NIH F31 Predoctoral Fellowship, her undergraduate degree from Carnegie Mellon University, and her research on directed evolution of nucleic acid aptamers for cancer and anti-viral drug discovery. Event location: Brandeis University, Mandel Center, Abraham Shapiro Academic Complex. Register at tinyurl.com/nsycc-symposium. More at nsycc.org.

ALT Graphic for the ACS Younger Chemists Committee Career Symposium, Panel #4: Graduate School 101. A photo shows Meg Granger smiling, with long reddish-brown hair and a black top. Text reads: "Meg Granger, PhD Student, Northeastern University." Her bio describes her second-year PhD work on specialized plant metabolism in Dr. Jing-Ke Weng's lab and her biochemistry degree from Brigham Young University. Event location: Brandeis University, Mandel Center, Abraham Shapiro Academic Complex. Register at tinyurl.com/nsycc-symposium. More at nsycc.org.

ALT Graphic for the ACS Younger Chemists Committee Career Symposium, Panel #4: Graduate School 101. A photo shows Nicola Knowles smiling, with long light-brown hair and a white sweater. Text reads: "Nicola Knowles, PhD Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology." Her bio describes her Harvard–MIT HST PhD research on collagen-mimetic peptides for skin remodeling and her B.S. in Chemistry from Rice University. Event location: Brandeis University, Mandel Center, Abraham Shapiro Academic Complex. Register at tinyurl.com/nsycc-symposium. More at nsycc.org.

ALT Graphic for the ACS Younger Chemists Committee Career Symposium, Panel #3: Careers in Industry, with MedChem Boston. A photo shows Darby Schmidt smiling, with curly light-brown hair and a bright pink top. Text reads: "Darby Schmidt, Chief Scientific Officer (CSO), Violet Therapeutics." Her bio describes more than 20 years leading drug discovery, earlier leadership roles at Sonata, Caraway, Quartet and Syros, and her Ph.D. from Harvard University. Sponsor logos: Sanofi, ChemScene, MedChem Boston, SEQENS and Brandeis University. Register at tinyurl.com/nsycc-symposium. More at nsycc.org.

ALT Graphic for the ACS Younger Chemists Committee Career Symposium, Panel #3: Careers in Industry, with MedChem Boston. A photo shows Alison Gao smiling with her arms crossed, with long dark hair and a gray sweater over a white collared shirt. Text reads: "Alison Gao, Senior Principal Scientist, Novartis." Her bio describes her medicinal chemistry work at Novartis since 2017 across cardiovascular, metabolic and oncology programs, her BSc from Imperial College London and her PhD from The Scripps Research Institute. Sponsor logos: Sanofi, ChemScene, MedChem Boston, SEQENS and Brandeis University. Register at tinyurl.com/nsycc-symposium. More at nsycc.org.

ALT Graphic for the ACS Younger Chemists Committee Career Symposium, Panel #3: Careers in Industry, with MedChem Boston. A photo shows Michelle Garnsey smiling, with long dark wavy hair and a black blazer over a white top. Text reads: "Michelle Garnsey, Associate Research Fellow at Pfizer." Her bio covers her BS from the University of New Hampshire, PhD from Duke University, postdoc with Prof. Larry Overman at UC Irvine, and her work as a medicinal chemist at Pfizer since 2014. Sponsor logos: Sanofi, ChemScene, MedChem Boston, SEQENS and Brandeis University. Register at tinyurl.com/nsycc-symposium. More at nsycc.org.

ALT Graphic for the ACS Younger Chemists Committee Career Symposium, Panel #4: Graduate School 101. A photo shows Stephanie Laporte smiling, with long dark wavy hair and a black sleeveless top. Text reads: "Stephanie Laporte, PhD Candidate, Boston University." Her bio describes her PhD research on [2+2] photocycloadditions for flow and medicinal chemistry in the Beeler Lab, her co-op at GSK on DNA-encoded libraries, and her B.S. in Chemistry from Brandeis University. Event location: Brandeis University, Mandel Center, Abraham Shapiro Academic Complex. Register at tinyurl.com/nsycc-symposium. More at nsycc.org.

ALT Meet Stephanie Murray — Associate Professor and Teaching Professor of Chemistry at Brandeis University, speaking on Panel #1: Academic & Teaching Careers at the NSYCC Career Symposium, Sat Nov 14 at Brandeis. 🎟️ Register for event: tinyurl.com/nsycc-symposium For undergrads, grad students, and postdocs in Boston and across New England who want to teach chemistry at the college level — and anyone wondering what a teaching-focused academic job looks like at a research university. Panel #1 is one of five career panels at the 2026 NSYCC Career Symposium (Northeastern Section Younger Chemists Committee, ACS). 9 AM–5:30 PM, Mandel Center, Abraham Shapiro Academic Complex, Brandeis University, Waltham. $20 · free parking · reception at Shopper’s Cafe to close the day. In her words: I am an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Brandeis where I teach courses in organic chemistry. As a Teaching Professor, my role focuses entirely on undergraduate education & advising. I’m passionate about imp

ALT Meet Olivia Fiebig — Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Smith College, speaking on Panel #1: Academic & Teaching Careers at the NSYCC Career Symposium, Sat Nov 14 at Brandeis University. What does year one as a new PI actually look like? Olivia is living it: a physical chemist running her own lab at a liberal arts college, studying lipids and the membrane proteins they interact with, after a Ph.D. at MIT and a named postdoctoral fellowship at Penn State. The faculty job search, the startup package, the first students — all recent enough to remember in detail. Her bio: Olivia Fiebig is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Smith College. She is interested in understanding the physical chemistry of lipids and their interactions with membrane proteins. Prior to Smith, she earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry at MIT and was an Eberly Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Penn State. For undergrads, grad students, and postdocs in Boston and across New England weighing a faculty career in chemistry —

ALT Meet Jayashree (Jay) Ranga — Professor of Chemistry at Salem State University, speaking on Panel #1: Academic & Teaching Careers at the NSYCC Career Symposium, Sat Nov 14 at Brandeis University. What does a chemistry career look like when teaching is the research? Jay studies how students learn chemistry — and then puts it to work in the classroom and in the community. She’s a full professor at a public state university, an ACS Chemistry Ambassador Award winner, and the person behind a lot of the STEM outreach you’ve seen from NESACS. Her bio: Jayashree Ranga is a Professor of Chemistry at Salem State University whose research focuses on teaching strategies that boost long-term student success. She received the ACS Chemistry Ambassador Award and leads STEM outreach with NESACS. Bring her your questions on: → Chemistry education research: what it is, how it’s funded, and how it counts for tenure → Building a faculty career at a public, teaching-focused university — and how the job di

ALT Flyer for the ACS Younger Chemists Committee and MedChem Boston Career Symposium, labeled Meet the Panelists. Title: Career Symposium: Panel #3, Careers in Industry. Headshot of Carolyn Cohen, smiling, with long brown hair and a lavender top against a blue background. Text: Carolyn Cohen, Principal Scientist, AbbVie, Process Chemistry. Carolyn obtained her Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Emory University, where she pursued undergraduate research in the lab of Huw Davies exploring rhodium-catalyzed C-H insertion and cyclopropanation chemistry. She then obtained her Ph.D. at Stanford University with Noah Burns, focusing on the synthesis of cyclobutane-containing natural products, including the ladderane phospholipids. Following her Ph.D., she transitioned to industry as a process chemist at Amgen in Cambridge, MA, working on late phase and commercial programs. She then joined Cerevel Therapeutics, which was acquired by AbbVie in 2024, where she continues to work on preclinical to ea