Amy Sims, PhD is a Biomedical Scientist in the Chemical and Biological Signatures Division of the National Security Directorate at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, WA. She earned her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University Medical Center and worked with Ralph Baric, PhD at the...
Dr. Tong Zhang is a scientist in the Biological Sciences Division at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). His research focuses on using mass spectrometry-based proteomics to understand fundamental biology and improve human health. His current projects include developing redox proteomics...
John is an accomplished lipid biochemist and structural biologist with an interest in understanding molecular pathology of disease. He earned his Ph.D. from Wake Forest School of Medicine where he received training in lipid biochemistry under the late Dr. Lawrence Rudel studying the role of low...
Dr. Bramer is the team lead for Data Science and Biostatistics in the Computational Biology Group at PNNL. Her current research is focused on applying and developing statistical and machine learning methods for biological data, particularly mass spectrometry omics data, and developing software tools...
Jessica Kerby is a systems engineer on the Energy Policy, Economics & Planning group within the Energy Transitions Planning team at the Pacific Northwest National Lab. Jessica holds an MS in Renewable Energy Engineering from Oregon Tech, an MS in Physics from the University of Cincinnati, and a BS...
Bethel is a systems engineer at PNNL with a research focused on understanding the social impacts of renewable and distributed energy systems. She currently leads research projects on energy equity and justice (EEJ) on energy storage, distributed wind, and marine energy adoption and deployment. In...
David Degnan is a biological data scientist who develops bioinformatic and statistical pipelines for multi-omics data, specifically the fields of proteomics, metabolomics, and multi-omics (phenotypic) data integration. He has experience with top-down & bottom-up proteomics analysis, genomics &...
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...
Short Biography Caroline (Carrie) Harwood received her Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Massachusetts and completed postdoctoral work at Yale University. She held academic appointments at Cornell University and the University of Iowa before moving to the University of Washington in 2005...
Research Interests Lipidomics (environment and human systems) Mass spectrometry
Biography Kristin Burnum-Johnson is a senior scientist and team lead of the Biomolecular Pathways team at PNNL. Burnum-Johnson earned her PhD in Biochemistry from Vanderbilt University with Professor Richard M. Caprioli and then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at PNNL with Dr. Richard D. Smith...
Biography Dr. Smith's research interests span the development of advanced analytical methods and instrumentation, with particular emphasis on high-resolution separations and mass spectrometry, and their applications in biological and biomedical research. This has included creating and applying new...
Biography Carrie Nicora is a senior research scientist (chemist III) at PNNL, specializing in high-throughput scientific research sample management using modular automation techniques for processing a wide range of biological specimens for proteomic, metabolomic, and lipidomic analysis. She is an...
Biography Young-Mo Kim is a senior bioanalytical chemist at PNNL. He received his PhD from Pohang University of Science and Technology in the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, studying analysis of metabolites during the bacterial and fungal degradation of xenobiotic substrates using...
