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...

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Andrea is a Post Masters Research Associate at PNNL. She is recently working on the CEDS project, tracking and analyzing historical anthropogenic emissions. Before joining JGCRI, she received her master's in Renewable and Clean Energy and bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering from the University of...

Sneha Couvillion’s current research focuses on deciphering microbial metabolic activity and interactions using a combination of powerful mass-spectrometry (MS)-based omics methods (metabolomics, lipidomics, and proteomics) in a variety of environmental and human health related projects. Expertise...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hamza is a Post Masters Research Associate at JGCRI within the Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate of PNNL. He has recently been working on the CEDS project to help develop a database of historical pollutant emissions for research and analysis. Prior to joining PNNL, Hamza completed graduate...