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 →

Dr. Allison Cockrell Zugell is a Scientist at Janssen, the pharmaceutical company of Johnson & Johnson. Her research group develops HPLC and capillary based methods for late-phase biotherapeutics. Allison received her PhD in 2013 in the lab of Dr. Paul Lindahl. From 2013-2015, she worked at the Naval Research Lab in Washington, DC as a… Read More →

Dr. Mikaela Stewart received her PhD in 2013 in the lab of Dr. Tatyana Igumenova. She is an Assistant Professor at Texas Christian University. Mikaela teaches biochemistry and manages a lab with undergraduate and graduate students. Her research focuses on characterizing protein-protein interactions within BRCA1 intrinsically disordered region that are important for tumor-supression. Mikaela was… Read More →

Dr. Aaron Pawlyk received his PhD in 2001 in the lab of Dr. Donald Pettigrew. He is a Program Director at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at the National Institutes of Heatlh. His job responsibilities include oversight of grants going to universities, scientific management of large NIH-funded consortia, and providing… Read More →

Dr. Julian Avila-Pacheco received his PhD in 2012 in the lab of Dr. Tim Devarenne. He is a research scientist in the Metabolomics Platform of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Julian works on developing methods for the analysis and interpretation of metabolomics data generated using liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS). He works… Read More →