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Jeanette Ducut-Sigala, Ph.D., is a multifaceted biomedical research scientist & mentor, leading catalytic initiatives advancing Research Excellence Opportunities/Academic Culture & Communities, enhancing Graduate Student Recruitment and Retention reflective of our broad talent pool, supporting Professional Development Initiatives & Grant Mechanisms through the Biomedical Research Education Office (BREO), SVPHS Research Unit. She earned her B.S. in Molecular Biology from California State University - Northridge, PhD in Biological Sciences from the University of California - San Diego, and was a Howard Hughes Research Post-Doctoral Fellow in Developmental Biology at Stanford University.
Currently, she co-leads the NIH T32 Training Program, Initiative for Maximizing Student Development at the U of U (IMSD@U2), is co-Advisor for the vibrant SACNAS Chapter at the University of Utah, and consultant to numerous academic strategic groups & research education programs in the Health Sciences at the U of U. It is Jeanette’s passion to foster and support the potential and success of the next generation of innovative scientists and scientific leaders from all backgrounds.
Paul grew up in a US Army family that lived in Germany, Texas, Georgia, New Jersey, and Hawaii. He did his undergraduate studies at UC San Diego and then spent two years as a US Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana, West Africa, where he taught high school chemistry. After Ghana, he earned a PhD from Stanford Biochemistry and then completed postdoctoral training in molecular microbiology at Washington University in St. Louis. In 2016, he joined the Biochemistry Dept. at the University of Utah, where his lab studies the cellular biochemistry of malaria parasites. Beyond science, Paul enjoys running, hiking, backpacking, and mountaineering, especially with his wife and two kids. His preferred breakfast is oatmeal with some fruit and a dark roast coffee, ideally after a good run!
Minna is originally from Vancouver, Canada. She earned her Bachelors and Masters degree at Simon Fraser University. She then moved to the United States for her PhD work. At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she immersed herself into the beauty of the inner workings of a cell (and college basketball), and spent many glorious hours on the microscope (and at the bar). Completely obsessed with figuring out how cells alter their “skeleton” as cells move, she turned her attention to understanding how this process works in cancer and did her postdoctoral work at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington. She started at the University of Utah in January 2018 as an Assistant Professor, still trying to figure out how cells move in different environments. These days, Minna no longer spends a ton of time at the bar, and can be seen chasing around her kids, hiking, eating at local restaurants, and trying not to look completely uncoordinated in taekwondo.
Clement received his BA from Cornell University in 2003. He completed his Ph.D. in 2008 in the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Michigan, where he worked with Miriam Meisler. Clement completed his postdoctoral training as a co-mentored postdoc with Andy Clark and Mariana Wolfner at Cornell University. While not in the lab, he is wrangling two unruly children and four chickens.
