Andrew McNaughton is a computational scientist currently working in the areas of modeling metabolic networks, multi-omics data analysis and integration, and computational chemistry. His areas of interest include high performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence, and machine learning (ML) to...
Jessica Kerby is a systems engineer on the Renewables Integration Team within the Distributed Systems Group 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 in Physics from...
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...
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 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...
Research Interests Lipidomics (environment and human systems) Mass spectrometry
Dr. Joshua Elmore is a Chemical Engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He received his Ph. D. from the University of Georgia in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry studying the mechanisms of CRISPR/Cas microbial immune systems in hyperthermophilic Archaea. He was a...
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 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...
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...
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...
Data Science & Biostatistics
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...
