Natasha Brown joined the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) as a research associate in 2007, working on library creation and protocol research and development for the Roche 454 and Illumina sequencing platforms. Since 2013, she’s served as the Supply Chain Manager in JGI’s Project Management Office, balancing JGI’s production capabilities against the users’ needs and the science that they produce. As … [Read more...]
Three Questions For Jean Zhao on Synthetic Science
Jean Zhao is a senior research associate in the JGI’s Synthesis Science User Program, which pioneers functional genomics to solve the most relevant bioenergy and environmental problems. She joined the JGI in 2006, fascinated by the new sequencing technologies being implemented, and moved to the synthesis science program in 2014. Jean is one of the first authors of a recent Nature Microbiology … [Read more...]
Three Questions for Kelly Laverty on UCPath
Kelly Laverty has been a UCPath Change Leader since 2014 when she worked on the first UCPath implementation at UC Santa Barbara. With her experience, she has developed a systemwide change and communications approach to the change that is UCPath. She says the Lab is a different environment, and Kelly appreciates how inquisitive and adaptable people are at the Lab. Elements: What is … [Read more...]
Three Questions For Army Veteran Ann Stroud
One of the Lab’s many military veterans is Ann Stroud who works in the Office of the Chief Financial Officer in Emeryville handling science and engineering procurement contracts. She garnered her wealth of contract information during her time in the United States Army where she also earned a master’s degree in material acquisitions. She also was able to turn her joint appointment at the Naval War … [Read more...]
Quokkas, Kangaroos, and Thanksgiving: Meet Charlene and Rebecca
The friendship of Charlene Yang and Rebecca Hartman-Baker spans continents. The two met a decade ago in Perth, Australia, when they both worked at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre. In 2015 Rebecca returned to the United States to work at the Lab at NERSC, and Charlene followed in 2017, coincidentally, to work at NERSC as well. Australia was an adjustment for both. Charlene, from Beijing, … [Read more...]