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Dr. Jayde Aufrecht is a Biologist working with the  team. Aufrecht joined EMSL in 2019 as a Linus Pauling Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow. She has interdisciplinary research interests that bridge the fields of nanotechnology and ecology.
At EMSL, Aufrecht creates synthetic ecological habitats using a combination of microfabrication and 3D-printing, that allow her to image and probe the dynamics between hosts and their associated microbiomes. She is interested in discovering how environmental perturbations can influence the functional phenotype and spatial organization of microbial communities.
Aufrecht holds a PhD in Energy Science and Engineering from the University of Tennessee. She conducted her graduate research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where her doctoral thesis helped advance microfluidics technology for studying underground ecological processes.

Dr. Arunima Bhattacharjee is a postdoctoral materials scientist with the . Bhattacharjee has extensive experience in microfabrication, microbial biofilm engineering, and microfluidics. Her primary research interests include creating soil-like microenvironments using microfluidics, microbe–mineral interactions, and extracellular polymeric substance characterization. She is currently working on the  initiative and , also called the Soil Microbiome SFA.

Dr. Chris Anderton leads a team of researchers in the Biogeochemical Transformations team. He has an extensive background in elucidating chemical interactions occurring across all kingdoms of life, including those within soils and the rhizosphere. 
Through his graduate endeavors to his recent position, he focuses on the power of multimodal imaging methods to expand the type of information gained from samples. For his graduate work and postdoc at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, he used atomic force microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and secondary ion mass spectrometry to understand the physicochemical properties of biological samples.
While at EMSL and PNNL, his focus has been, in part, on expanding the mass spectrometry imaging capability—making these valuable tools for analyzing bacteria communities, rhizosphere-related systems, and even human health-related processes. He also focuses on visualizing the key mechanisms that drive interkingdom interactions within soil to understand the key drivers that lead to resiliency in the face of a changing environment.

 was on the faculty in the Department of Psychology at the University of New Hampshire prior to coming to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2002. She is currently a Professor Emerita and research professor of  with appointments in psychology and the . She leads .
Education


Ph.D., general/experimental psychology, Georgia Tech University, 1983


Postdoctoral researcher, Duke University, 1983-1984


Research scientist, Brandeis University, 1984-1990


Research Interests:
Professor Stine-Morrow's research is focused on the conditions and strategies that augment cognitive health and make us effective learners into later adulthood. Research topics include:


Investigating how age-related change in cognition impacts language and text comprehension and how shifts in strategy with age can contribute to maintaining text memory.


Mechanisms underlying individual variation in literacy skill among adults.


Interventions that promote cognitive resilience into late life.


Professor Stine-Morrow’s research is broadly concerned with the multifaceted nature of adult development and aging; in particular, how cognition and intellectual capacities are optimized over the adult life span. She has examined how self-regulated adaptations (e.g., selective allocation of attentional resources, reliance on knowledge-based processes, activity engagement, etc.) engender positive development in adulthood. Much of this research has focused on the important role of literacy and the processes through which effective reading is maintained into late life.
Professor Stine-Morrow's research has been funded by the National Institute on Aging, the National Science Foundation, and the Institute for Educational Sciences. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Gerontological Society of America. Awards include the College of Education Spitze-Mather Award for Faculty Excellence and the Department of Educational Psychology Jones Teaching Award. Professor Stine-Morrow has served as president of Division 20 of the American Psychological Association, as associate editor for The Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences and Memory & Cognition, and as a member of the National Research Council’s Committee on Adolescent and Adult Literacy (2009-2011). She currently serves as associate editor for Psychology and Aging.

Dr. Scott Lea is the team lead for the Structural Biology team. He provides scientific and technical expertise and leadership, strategy, and scientific productivity of the bioimaging and microscopy capabilities and the Quiet Wing for advanced microscopy. 
Lea has more than 25 years of experience with research related to surface science and optical imaging. His focus areas are related to applying scanning probe, optical, and surface science tools to the study of biomolecules at surfaces, organic-inorganic interfaces, and geochemical processes. He oversees activities and instrumentation in the scanning probe microscopy laboratories and has led the development of a high-pressure atomic force microscope for in-situ imaging of geochemical transformations in supercritical CO2. Dr. Lea has also collaborated with the Raschke group at the University of Colorado Boulder/JILA on the development of a scanning infrared near-field optical microscope for high spatial resolution chemical imaging. He was the principal investigator (PI) on a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Biological and Environmental Research (BER) project in the Bioimaging Technologies program developing multimodal chemical imaging instrumentation based on near-field scanning probe methods to study microbial interactions (2017-2019) and is currently the PI on a multimodal, multiscale imaging project in the DOE/BER Bioimaging Science program (2019-2021). These projects focus on developing a capability to help in the understanding of metabolic connections in plant and microbial systems across scales. 

 

Dr. Alexander Beliaev leads EMSL's . He is also the Synthetic Biology team leader for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Biological Sciences Division. His expertise and interests span systems microbiology, functional genomics, synthetic biology, and biotechnology.
Over the last two decades, Beliaev’s work has focused on predictive understanding of energy and materials conversion by microbes with emphasis on metabolic and regulatory controls guiding these processes. He has led and co-led multi-institutional projects focusing on the diversity of microbial metabolism: from extracellular electron transfer in chemolithotrophic bacteria to photosynthetic energy capture in oxygenic phototrophs. This work led to the discovery of the molecular basis of dissimilatory metal reduction by marine and subsurface microorganisms, as well as to development of a broad understanding of mechanisms by which cyanobacteria maximize energy conversion to achieve ultrahigh growth. His academic and educational accomplishments have also led to a joint appointment with the Centre for Agriculture and the Bioeconomy at the Queensland University of Technology, where he serves as a professor of biotechnology.
Today, Beliaev is exploring fundamental mechanisms and design principles that govern the functioning of multi-species systems. He is incorporating cutting-edge measurement technologies into systems and synthetic biology approaches, especially with respect to microbial community function and host-microbe interactions, to take knowledge from the laboratory to the field and translate it into industrial applications and partnerships with industry.

Margaret Cheung is a biological physicist and computational scientist with the Systems Modeling and Computational Science team. She holds a joint appointment with the Department of Physics at the University of Washington. She is interested in employing an integrative approach of quantum mechanical calculations, molecular simulations, out-of-equilibrium statistical physics, and network theory to investigate the role of emergent, higher-order protein assemblies in regulating living matter. 

Dr. Kristin Burnum-Johnson is a senior scientist and an expert with the  Integrated Research Platform. 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.
Critical challenges in systems biology, ranging from environmental sustainability to human health, may be addressed through the comprehensive and informative view of underlying biological pathways provided by the integration of spatiotemporal multi-omic measurements (i.e., proteomics, metabolomics, and lipidomics). Her research is dedicated to achieving transformative molecular-level insights into environmental and biomedical systems by implementing advanced mass spectrometry (MS) instrumentation. Burnum-Johnson has over a decade of experience and more than 50 publications dedicated to the development and evaluation of in situ imaging MS, structural characterization of molecules using ion mobility-MS, and analyses of molecules in complex matrices using high-resolution MS. Her research program is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program, the DOE Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Burnum-Johnson was selected to receive a 2019 Early Career Research Program Award from DOE’s Office of Science. As part of her DOE BER early career research program, she is applying a multi-omics approach to uncover the mechanisms that drive cooperative fungal-bacterial interactions that result in the degradation of lignocellulosic plant material in natural ecosystems. Insights obtained from these studies inform new strategies for producing advanced bioproducts and biofuels.

Aivett Bilbao is a computational scientist in the . She conducts research on computational tools for mass spectrometry-based omics, working directly with experimental biologists and chemists in interdisciplinary teams. She has acquired extensive experience developing software for mass spectrometry using multiple programming languages and technologies. Projects include proteomics and and small molecule (e.g., metabolites and lipids) molecular characterization entailing both algorithm design and software implementation for data from different instruments (time-of-flight, quadrupole, and Fourier transform-based mass analyzers) and analytical separation techniques (liquid chromatography, ion mobility, solid phase extraction, and gas chromatography).
She earned her PhD from University of Geneva in Switzerland with special interest in data-independent acquisition mass spectrometry. Her bachelor’s degree is in computer engineering from Universidad de Oriente in Venezuela (cum laude) and her MSc studies were focused on machine learning algorithms and statistical methods at Telecom SudParis in France.

Veronica Gillispie-Bell, MD, is a board certified obstetrician and gynecologist with Ochsner Health in New Orleans. She serves as senior site lead and section head of obstetrics and gynecology at Ochsner Medical Center - Kenner. She is director of quality for women’s services for Ochsner Health System and medical director of the Ochsner Center for the Minimally Invasive Treatment of Uterine Fibroids. She also serves as medical director of the Louisiana Perinatal Quality Collaborative and as pregnancy-associated mortality review for the Louisiana Department of Health.
Dr. Gillispie-Bell performs advanced laparoscopic and robotic assisted laparoscopic procedures. She has participated in clinical trials for treatment options for uterine fibroids and is a national speaker and consultant on heavy menstrual bleeding associated with fibroids. She was a presenter at the inaugural Maternal Health Day of Action in 2021 hosted by the White House and has testified before Congress on maternal health. Her work with national media includes USA Today, ABC's "Good Morning America," MSNBC and The New York Times' "The 1619 Project" docuseries. 
Dr. Gillispie-Bell earned a medical degree from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, and completed residency training at Ochsner Health System. She earned a master's degree in patient safety and healthcare quality from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. She earned certification in diversity and inclusion from Cornell University in New York.
 

Dr. Deana McDonagh is a professor of industrial design in the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is also a Health Innovation Professor at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine at UIUC, a , and the founder of the  at the Beckman Institute, which supports interdisciplinary design research centered around the lived experiences of people with disabilities. In 2022, McDonagh won the  for exemplifying excellence and interdisciplinary research collaboration.
As an empathic design research strategist, she focuses on enhancing the quality of life for all through more intuitive and meaningful products, leading to emotional sustainability. Her research concentrates on emotional user-product relationships and how empathy can bring the designer closer to users’ authentic needs, ensuring both functional and emotional needs are met the material landscape.
She is the Designer Entrepreneur-in-Residence (start-up incubator) at the University of Illinois Research Park and the Designer in Residence at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, where she provides design guidance.

 is a research affiliate at the  and the Division of Disability Resources and Educational Services, or DRES, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
He has served as the head coach of the University of Illinois wheelchair track and road racing team since 2005. In that time, his athletes have won 55 medals across four paralympic games while setting 14 world records on the track, and have won the Boston Marathon, London Marathon, Chicago Marathon, and New York City Marathon. In recognition of such performances, he has been named the USOC U.S. Paralympic Coach of the Year on three occasions.
Bleakney conducts research related to assistive technology and devices for individuals with disabilities as well as research related to human performance, specifically for athletes with disabilities. In 2017, he established the UIUC Human Performance and Mobility Maker Lab, an interdisciplinary lab where students with and without disabilities collaborate to design and develop assistive technology. As director of the HPML, Bleakney is faculty in the School of Art + Design at UIUC. He also co-directs the  at the Beckman Institute, which supports interdisciplinary design research centered around the lived experiences of people with disabilities.
He has also consulted with BMW, Toyota, Bridgestone Americas, and several Champaign-based start-ups in advancing racing wheelchair and other accessible technology research and development initiatives.
Education

M.S., print journalism, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2002
B.A., English literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000

Honors

2019: Chancellor's Academic Professional Excellence Award
2016: USPOC U.S. Paralympic Coach of the Year
2015: USOPC Doc Counsilman Science Award
2015: USPOC U.S. Paralympic Coach of the Year
2009: Alexis Wernsing Innovation Award
2007: USPOC U.S. Paralympic Coach of the Year

 is a  and an associate professor in the  at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Her research seeks to understand and control multiscale molecular assembly processes to achieve sustainable manufacturing of materials and devices for environment, energy, and healthcare applications, including therapeutic products. Molecular assembly, where a set of inanimate molecules can form structures with ever-evolving complexity and emergent properties, is inextricably linked to the origin of life. With the advent of modern drug development, the rise of nanotechnology, and most recently the renaissance in energy research, the field has resurged into prominence.
The , started in 2015 at UIUC, aims to understand the assembly of organic functional materials and innovate printing approaches that enable structural control down to the molecular and nanoscales. 
Education

Postdoctoral scholar, Stanford University & SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2011-2014
Ph.D., chemical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011
M.S., chemical engineering practice, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008
B.S.E., chemical engineering, Tsinghua University, 2006

Honors

2023 University Scholar, University of Illinois
2023 New Horizons Solvay Lectures in Chemistry, International Solvay Institutes
2023 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent, Fa’16, Sp’18, Sp’20, Fa’20, Fa’21, Fa’22
2022 Van Ness Award Lecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2022 Thiele Award Lecture, University of Notre Dame
2022 “Rising Star” series of Advanced Materials
2022 Soft Matter Emerging Investigator
2021 Campus Distinguished Promotion Award
2021 I. C. Gunsalus Scholar, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
2020: NASA Early Career Faculty Award 
2020: Rising Star in Materials Chemistry, Chemistry of Materials “Up-and-Coming Series” 
2020: List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent (Fall and Spring)
2020: Emerging Investigator, Chemical Society Reviews, the Royal Society of Chemistry
2019: Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professor Scholar, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences 
2019: Beckman Fellow, Center for Advanced Study, UIUC 
2019: Early Career Award, AVS Prairie Chapter 
2019: Emerging Investigator in Crystal Growth & Design, ACS Publications 
2019: Emerging Investigator, Molecular Systems Design & Engineering, the Royal Society of Chemistry 
2019: Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
2018: List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent (Spring)
2018: NSF CAREER Award 
2018: 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award 
2018: Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Chemistry 
2018: Chemistry of Materials Reviewer Excellence Award, ACS Publications 
2017: School of Chemical Sciences Teaching Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2017: US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, National Academy of Engineering 

Julie Fitzgerald, MD, FAAP, is the division director of Pediatric Critical Care and Medical Director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Loyola University Medical Center. Dr. Fitzgerald provides care to critically ill and injured infants and children, and her practice encompasses both medical and surgical subspecialty care.  She developed a Pediatric Moderate and Deep Sedation Service, providing sedation and pain management for children undergoing radiologic imaging studies or invasive procedures outside of the operating room setting. Dr. Fitzgerald received her medical degree at the Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, and completed both her residency and fellowship at the University of Chicago Medical Center. 

Liana G. Apostolova, MD, MSc, FAAN is an IU Distinguished Professor and the Barbara and Peer Baekgaard Professor in Alzheimer's Disease Research and Professor in Neurology, Radiology, Medical and Molecular Genetics. She graduated Summa cum Laude from the Medical University, Sofia, Bulgaria in 1998, and completed Neurology residency training at the University of Iowa and a Dementia fellowship at UCLA. Dr. Apostolova is a prolific researcher. Her research focuses on early-onset (young-onset) Alzheimer's disease, the early symptomatic and presymptomatic stages of Alzheimer's Disease, and on the development and validation of sensitive imaging and genetic biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease and other dementing disorders. Dr. Apostolova is the principal investigator of many NIH, foundation, and industry-supported grants, and the recipient of many prestigious research awards. She is the lead principal investigator of the national Longitudinal Early-Onset AD Study (LEADS, R56/U01 AG057195) which aims to improve our understanding of and launch clinical trials in young-onset AD (age of onset <65y). She also directs the Clinical Core of the Alzheimer’s Disease Center at Indiana University.

 is a  and a  at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is the William L. Everitt Faculty Scholar in ECE and holds affiliations in the Department of Speech and Hearing Science, Coordinated Science Lab, , and Department of Computer Science. He also leads the , a new research initiative to make voice recognition technology more useful for people with a range of diverse speech patterns and disabilities. 
Hasegawa-Johnson has been on the faculty at the University of Illinois since 1999. His research addresses automatic speech recognition with a focus on the mathematization of linguistic concepts. His group has developed mathematical models of concepts from linguistics including a rudimentary model of pre-conscious speech perception (the landmark-based speech recognizer), a model that interprets pronunciation variability by figuring out how the talker planned his or her speech movements (tracking of tract variables from acoustics, and of gestures from tract variables), and a model that uses the stress and rhythm of natural language (prosody) to disambiguate confusable sentences. Applications of his research include:

Speech recognition for talkers with cerebral palsy. The automatic system, suitably constrained, outperforms a human listener.

Provably correct unsupervised ASR, or ASR that can be trained using speech that has no associated text transcripts.


Equal Accuracy Ratio regularization: Methods that reduce the error rate gaps caused by gender, race, dialect, age, education, disability and/or socioeconomic class.


Automatic analysis of the social interactions between infant, father, mother, and older sibling during the first eighteen months of life.


Hasegawa-Johnson is currently Senior Area Editor of the journal IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language and a member of the ISCA Diversity Committee. He has published 308 peer-reviewed journal articles, patents, and conference papers in the general area of automatic speech analysis, including machine learning models of articulatory and acoustic phonetics, prosody, dysarthria, non-speech acoustic events, audio source separation, and under-resourced languages.
Education

Postdoctoral fellow, University of California at Los Angeles, 1996-1999

Ph.D., Massachusetts of Technology, 1996

M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989

Honors

2023: Fellow of the International Speech Communication Association for contributions to knowledge-constrained signal generation

2020: Fellow of the IEEE, for contributions to speech processing of under-resourced languages


2011: Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, for contributions to vocal tract and speech modeling


2009: Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery


2004: Member, Articulograph International Steering Committee; CLSP Workshop leader, "Landmark-Based Speech Recognition”, Invited paper


2004: NAACL workshop on Linguistic and Higher-Level Knowledge Sources in Speech Recognition and Understanding


2003: List of faculty rated as excellent by their students


2002: NSF CAREER award


1998: NIH National Research Service Award


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Katherine Baumgarten, MD, is board certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases, and has served as Ochsner Health medical director of infection prevention since 2008. Her expertise includes health care safety and clinical infectious diseases, along with emerging infections and adult vaccines. She has been interviewed by 麻豆传媒week magazine, CNN and numerous local outlets on COVID-19, measles and bird flu, among other topics. 
Dr. Baumgarten is a fellow of both the American College of Physicians and the Infectious Diseases Society of America. She is a member of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America and the American Board of Internal Medicine.
A New Orleans native, she attended Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, and earned a medical degree from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - New Orleans. She completed an internship and residency at the University of California at San Francisco and completed an infectious diseases fellowship at Ochsner Medical Foundation in New Orleans.

I am a Professor of Biology with broad expertise in marine biology, ecotoxicology and parasitology. I'm particularly interested in the effects of contaminents on crustaceans and their parasites. I have a diverse background in aquatic toxicology including endocrine disrupters, plastics, nanoparticles and pharmaceuticals. I am an editor for several journals whereby my focus is invertebrate ecotoxicology and general marine biology. I am currently Director of Research Degrees programs within the School of Biological Sciences and school REF cordinator for UoA7.
Biography
I studied Biological Sciences as an undergraduate at Plymouth University (1993-1996), followed by an MSc in Environmental Biology at University of Wales Swansea (1997). After spells working as a Nature Conservation Officer, Pollution Control Officer and Turtle Biologist, I settled down to a Senior Research Assistant post back in Wales (Swansea University 1991-2001) where I worked on a large European funded project identifying and mapping the epibenthic diversity of the North Sea. A PhD followed at Napier University (Edinburgh) investigating the effects of pollution on the endocrine systems of crustaceans (2001-2004).
On completion of my PhD I spent two and a half years lecturing at Napier University (2004-2007) followed by a Senior Research Fellowship post at the UHI Millennium Institute (2007-2008) based in Thurso (N. Scotland). I joined the School of Biological Sciences at Portsmouth University in August 2008 as a Senior Lecturer in Marine Zoology and became a Reader in Biology in 2012 and a Professor of Biology in 2016.

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