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 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 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 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...
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 &...
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...
Nick Reichart earned his PhD in biochemistry from Montana State University where he developed a workflow for bioorthogonal non-canonical amino acid tagging to determine the activity of uncultured microbes in the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park. Afterward, he started as a postdoctoral...
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. 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...
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...
Samantha Powell earned her PhD from the University of Oklahoma in the lab of Dr. George Richter-Addo, using X-ray crystallography to study heme proteins and Clostridium difficile nitroreductases and their interactions with small molecules. From 2019-2020, she was a National Research Council...
Biography Kelly is a senior data scientist in the Computational Biology group within the Biological Sciences Division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). After earning a MS in Biostatistics from the University of Washington in 2012, she worked at a cancer research company for two years...
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...
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...
