Dr. Allison Ortigosa is the Executive Director of Technical Operations at Merck & Co., Inc., supporting the commercial manufacture of life-saving medicines at the Elkton, Virginia pharmaceutical manufacturing plant. She received her PhD in 2003 in the lab of Dr. Gregory Reinhart studying the allosteric regulation of phosphofructokinase through the use strategically placed amino acid… Read More →
Joel Oliver
Joel Oliver is a 4th year graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. John Mullet where he studies growth efficiency in plants using Sorghum bicolor as a model. His research and involvement has won him the “triple crown” of the departmental awards, taking the poster competition, the research competition, and graduate student teaching awards all… Read More →
Dr. Angela Domitrovich
Dr. Angela Domitrovich received her Ph.D. in 2002 in the lab of Dr. Gary Kunkel. Her postdoctoral research was at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus in the Department of Microbiology which was supported by an NIH fellowship and the Thorkildsen Research fellowship. During her time as a postdoctoral fellow her research focused on… Read More →
Sarah Hartman
Sarah Hartman is a 6th year graduate student in the lab of Dr. Jennifer Herman where she studies the roles of DNA-binding proteins in the subcellular organization of Bacillus subtilis. In the past, Sarah has served as Graduate and Professional Student Council (GPSC) research chair and as the GPSC representative for the Biochemistry Graduate Association (BGA)…. Read More →
Sreyashree Bose
Sreyashree Bose is a 5th year graduate student in the lab of Dr. Dorothy Shippen. She is responsible for characterizing a non canonical long non coding RNA in terms of its role in the regulation and maintenance of telomeres in the plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Additionally, Sreyashree serves as President of the Women In Science and… Read More →
Dr. Yulia Surovtseva
Dr. Yulia Surovtseva received her Ph.D. in 2007 in the lab of Dr. Dorothy Shippen. She credits BioBio and her Ph.D. mentor for her continued enthusiasm for academic research and her career successes. During her Ph.D. studies, Yulia was a recipient of several academic honors and awards including Women in Science Ethel Ashworth Tsutsui Award… Read More →
Jason Allen
Jason Allen is a fourth year graduate student in the lab of Dr. Jean-Philippe Pellois. To better understand the mechanisms of cellular delivery, Jason is working on two research projects. First, he is investigating the impact of different hydrophobic moieties on the penetration efficiency of cell penetrating peptides. Second, involves using small extracellular vesicles called… Read More →
Dr. Taylor Weiss
Dr. Taylor Weiss received his PhD in 2012 in the lab of Dr. Tim Devarenne. He is an Assistant Professor of Environmental and Resource Management in The Polytechnic School in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, a Senior Sustainability Scientist at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, and a member of The… Read More →