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Reid Peterson

Dr. Reid Peterson joined PNNL in 2004. He is the team leader for the Process Sensing and Separation team in the Radiochemical Processes Laboratory as part of the Nuclear Sciences Division. This team focuses primarily on separations and characterization of radiochemical processes of interest to sponsors at the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management, the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy, and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). In addition, Dr. Peterson serves as the program manager for the Waste Treatment Project Support Program. This program hosts all...Read more

Ashty Karim

Ashty Karim is currently the Director of Research for the Center of Synthetic Biology and a Research Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University. With a foundation in synthetic biology, he works at the intersection of biology and chemistry developing powerful, enabling technologies to efficiently harness biological systems to produce valuable chemicals as well as building new educational frameworks for teaching synthetic biology. He has worked in cell-free systems for the past 10 years focusing on enzymes and...Read more

2022 CAST Directors’ Award

Edna Soraya Rawlings

Edna Soraya Rawlings is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories in the Quantitative Modeling and Software Engineering department. Her research focuses on mathematical modeling and programming, including nonlinear and generalized disjunctive programming and dynamic optimization problems. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo in 2008 and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Universidad de Guanajuato in 2016. She was also a research scholar at Carnegie Mellon University. After receiving her PH.D., she...Read more

Meet Jadon Edwards: 2023 FOSSI Scholar Attending Claflin University

Charles Dimmler

CHARLES DIMMLER is the co-founder and CEO of Checkerspot. His career has focused on building and leading teams at emerging growth companies in the life sciences and biotechnology sector. He has deep expertise in general management and leading strategic transactions, with over $1 billion of completed transactions ranging from public and private financings to joint ventures, licensing and M&A. From 2008 to 2016, he served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at Solazyme, Inc. where he led financings and a range of other strategic transactions, including two venture capital...Read more

Shannon Nangle, PhD

Shannon is the co-founder and CEO of Circe and has been building out the technology for the past six years. Circe is a carbon transformation platform, that converts carbon dioxide and hydrogen into chemicals on demand through the use of fermentation and synthetic biology. Circe spun out of her postdoc research while in Pam Silver’s lab at Harvard, where she focused on engineering microbes, building electrochemistry rigs, and customizing fermentation systems. Prior to joining the lab, she received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington where she studied crystallography and structural...Read more

Laura Fernandez

Laura Fernandez is a Sr. Fermentation Engineer at the Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts Process Development Unit (ABPDU) at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs. As a member of the fermentation team, Laura performs process development, downstream processing, product recovery, and data analysis in collaboration with external organizations. She has executed dozens of fermentation projects generating a broad range of bioproducts. Her work also includes supporting the ABPDU's workforce development efforts as an instructor for the UC Berkeley Masters in Bioprocess Engineering. She has been involved...Read more

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