Graduate Student – CBP curriculum
Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, School of Medicine
2025 May – present
Funding in the lab
2024 – 2027. National Science Foundation (NSF) predoctoral fellowship (NSF-GRFP)
Contact information
6309, 6317 & 6331 Medical Biomolecular Research Building
111 Mason Farm Rd., Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Phone: 919-966-0327
E-mail: saddish@unc.edu
Education
B.S. Biochemistry, The University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 8/2020 – 8/2023
A.A., Associate’s in Arts, Green River College, Auburn WA, 08/2018 – 06/2020
Publications
- Liu TW, Fajardo-Rojas F, Addish SA, Martinez E, Gomez-Gualdron DA. (2024). MOFs to enhance green NH3 synthesis in plasma reactors: hierarchical computational screening enhanced by iterative machine learning. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 6 (49): 68506-68519.
- Gomez AE, Addish SA, Alvarado K, Boatemaa P, Onyali AC, Ramirez EG, Rojas MF, Rai J, Reynolds KA, Tang WJ, Kwon RY. (2023). Multiple mechanisms explain genetic effects at the CPED1-WNT16 bone mineral density locus. Curr Osteoporos Rep. 21 (2): 173-183.
- Watson CJ, Tang WJ, Rojas MF, Fiedler IAK, Morfin Montes de Oca E, Cronrath AR, Callies LK, Swearer AA, Ahmed AR, Sethuraman V, Addish S, Farr GH 3rd, Gómez AE, Rai J, Monstad-Rios AT, Gardiner EM, Karasik D, Maves L, Busse B, Hsu YH, Kwon RY. (2022). wnt16 regulates spine and muscle morphogenesis through parallel signals from notochord and dermomyotome. PLOS Genet. 18 (11): e1010496.
Honors and awards
- WTCC-UNC Mentorship Program, mentoring in teaching, 2025
- National Science Foundation (NSF), Predoctoral fellowship (NSF-GRFP), 2024–2027
- National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE), West Region Undergraduate Rising Star Award, 2023
- University of Washington, Levinson Emerging Scholars Award, 2022-2023
- American Chemical Society (ACS), Puget Sound, Julia A. Rutherford Memorial Scholarship, 2022
- University of Washington, Class of 1954 Endowed Scholarship, 2022
Research experience
Research Associate I, Dr. Ronald Kwon, Department of Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, University of Washington, 8/2023 – 7/2024
Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Student, Dr. Diego Gomez-Gualdron, Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, 6/2022 – 08/2022
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Dr. Ronald Kwon, Department of Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, University of Washington, 1/2022 – 6/2023
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Dr. Hannele Ruohola-Baker, Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, 6/2021 – 12/2021
