Dr. David Weaver
Professor, Department of Agronomy and Soils
"Did I choose the career or did the career choose me? That is an interesting question. I have always been interested in science, and grew up on a farm. So the marriage of science and agriculture was a natural for me."
Lynn L. Buckle
Biotechnology Business Development Manager Intelligence Systems
"Currently, the strongest demand in bioinformatics is for an individual with a degree in the life sciences and computer science/engineering, coupled with IT experience."
J. Daniel Sharer, PhD, FACMG
Assistant Professor and Director
"As a biochemical geneticist, my work specifically focuses on the diagnosis of inherited metabolic disorders, which typically afflict infants and young children, and often cause severe, even life threatening symptoms."
Dr. Brett McKinney, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics
"Computational biology is an exciting interdisciplinary field of research that integrates concepts from statistics, mathematics, computer science, and physics to solve problems in biology and biomedical research."
Dr. Charles Woernle, MD, MPH
State Epidemiologist
“As a medical epidemiologist working at a state health department, I have investigated acute disease outbreaks; reviewed and analyzed data from reported, notifiable disease cases; and planned and implemented intervention measures to reduce the occurrence of preventable communicable diseases.”
Bonnie Howard
Public Health Environmentalist
“I travel independently throughout the community to inspect food processing plants, hotels, restaurants, day care and nursing home food service facilities, jails, schools, night clubs and even body art facilities. Every day I am out meeting new people and seeing different things.”
R. Lynn Holt, M.S., C.G.C.
Genetic Counselor, Department of Genetics
"I choose this career because I really enjoy the fast pace changes of science and genetics and I like to help people. I wanted a career that would allow me to be in healthcare but I was not interested in being a physician or nurse or working in a research laboratory setting."
Leesa Davis
Cytogenetic Technologist
"Fall in love with biology, chemistry, math and computer classes early. I use my degree every day. Biology--specimens/cell division; chemistry-mixing and usage of reagents in our protocols; math--measuring DNA; computers--capturing and karyotyping chromosomes."
Dr. Guy Caldwell, PhD and Dr. Kim Caldwell, PhD
Molecular Biologists, Assistant Professors, Department of Biological Sciences
"I never set out to be a professor and researcher; I sort of stumbled into that job. However, I always wanted to know more about nature because I loved animals, rocks, planets, stars, fish, etc. So, in school I took a lot of science courses and along the way I just kept narrowing my focus as I found out what areas of science I liked.” -Dr. Kim Caldwell
