Biography Dr. Pubudu Handakumbura is the lead on the Plant and Ecosystem Phenotyping team in PNNL’s Environmental Molecular Sciences Division and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) user program. She has extensive experience in advanced molecular biology techniques, genetic...

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...

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...

Biography I am a biological engineer working to advance high-throughput biological engineering for rapid optimization of complex gene clusters and dynamical systems in microbes through pooled genomic library assembly, high-throughput sequencing and variant scoring. I utilize machine learning...

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...

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

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...

Biography Bobbie-Jo Webb-Robertson has 20 years of experience in the statistics and data science fields. She currently serves as the chief scientist of computational biology in the Biological Sciences Division at PNNL. Her research portfolio is largely related to the biomedical field and primarily...

Yanyan Cheng is a hydrologist and land surface modeler working on complex energy-water-land dynamics. She is currently a Postdoc at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in the Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change division. She earned a PhD in hydrology and water resources engineering...

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...

Yun is a scientist at PNNL. He has been leading projects investigating the impacts of snow and ice impurities on climate and water resources. He is also interested in land-atmosphere-cloud interaction, including the impact of urbanization and irrigation. Recently he has been working on the...

Zhe is a scientist at PNNL. His recent efforts involve understanding the impact of climate change to mesoscale convective systems and extreme precipitation and using innovative methods and advanced observations to evaluate and improve the representations of convective clouds, mesoscale convective...

Dr. L. Ruby Leung is a Battelle Fellow at PNNL. Her research broadly cuts across multiple areas in modeling and analysis of climate and the hydrological cycle, including land-atmosphere interactions, orographic processes, monsoon climate, climate extremes, land surface processes, and aerosol-cloud...

Jianfeng is a Post Doctorate Associate at PNNL. He is interested in combining atmospheric chemistry and physics to explore the comprehensive impacts of atmospheric processes on air quality and climate change. His recent research is to investigate the relationship between convection and extreme...