Biography Ernesto Nakayasu is a senior research scientist focused on understanding molecular mechanisms of diseases. Nakayasu has been applying systems biology and mass spectrometry-based omics measurements to study how pathogens and metabolic alterations cause human diseases; the goal is to...

PerCon SFA, Co-Investigator Vivian Lin earned her PhD in organic chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley with Professor Chris Chang, developing fluorescent probes for imaging redox active small molecules. Afterward, she traveled to Switzerland for a postdoctoral fellowship in the...

Data Science & Biostatistics

Dr. Gao obtained her Ph.D degree in Chemistry from institute of chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science. His Ph.D research focused on multiscale modeling of morphology and properties of polymeric materials, polymer processing and unveiling the process–properties relationships. (atomic to coarse...

Dr. Paul Piehowski is the Proteomics team leader for PNNL’s Environmental and Molecular Sciences Division and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) user program. Piehowski is an analytical chemist whose research is focused on the application of mass spectrometry to biological...

Sara Gosline received BA in Computer Science from Columbia University and spent two years working in software before returning to graduate school full time. She received her Masters and PhD in Computer Science from McGill University with a specialty in Bioinformatics and then moved to the...

Dr. Katrina Waters is the division director for Biological Sciences at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Waters has a Ph.D. in biochemistry and more than 15 years of experience in microarray and proteomics data analysis. Her research interests are focused on the integration of genomics...

Washington State University Distinguished Graduate Research Program Program: Chemical Engineering WSU-PNNL Advisor: Aaron Wright

Earth Scientist Emily Graham is an quantitative ecosystem ecologist in the Biological Sciences Group at PNNL and is part of the Ecosystem Science Team. She is co-principal investigator of the Subsurface Biogeochemical Research Science Focus Area (SFA) and a key member of PNNL’s soil microbiome SFA...

Dr. Bernstein is an Associate Professor in UiT's Arctic Centre for Sustainable Energy (ARC). He specializes in genome-enabled bioengineering with microbes and microbial communities. His research is at the juxtaposition of biotechnology and microbial ecology as applied to the fields of sustainable...

Colin works in microbial ecology, focusing on informatics and visualization. Education: BS - Biology and Informatics - Juniata College

Education: University of California-Berkeley, PhD Plant Biology University of California-Davis, BS Plant Biology Publications: 2020 Naylor D.T., S.J. Fansler, C.J. Brislawn, W.C. Nelson, K.S. Hofmockel, J.K. Jansson, and R.S. McClure. 2020. "Deconstructing the Soil Microbiome into Reduced-Complexity...

Biography Dr. Mary Lipton is currently a Staff Scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Adjunct Professor at Washington State University-Tri-Cities in Richland and Adjunct Professor in the Institute for Biological Chemistry and Washington State University Pullman. She is nationally...

Michelle Davison is a microbiologist with a love of challenging, creative, and multidisciplinary projects. She is interested in the role phage play in environmental systems, as well as the myriad ways they can be harnessed as tools. She has experience isolating, developing and working with non-model...

Publications: 2018 Khan NE, Y Maezato, RS McClure, CJ Brislawn, JM Mobberley, NG Isern, WB Chrisler, LM Markillie, BM Barney, HS Song, WC Nelson, and HC Bernstein. 2018. "Phenotypic responses to interspecies competition and commensalism in a naturally-derived microbial co-culture." Scientific...