Damla Bilgin, Phd, Msc Email & Phone Number

San Diego, Ca, Us

Build short- and long- term business strategy for product application areasSupport strategic initiatives that will address mission-critical questions and position for future successDrive pre-market development activities for the adoption of the future products

San Diego, California, Us

San Diego, Ca, Us

• Identify needs and develop strategy to drive geographic expansion into emerging markets as part of global health strategy• Map out needs in emerging markets for multi-omics-based applications• Drive day-to-day planning and execution of Pathogen Genomics Initiative ($60M) • Lead internal coordination and communication between operations, sales, marketing, medical affairs, trade compliance, legal and communications/PR• Interface with funders, partners, and customers on program vision and execution• Lead on potential new content development, evidence generation opportunities and user education

San Diego, Ca, Us

• External opportunity evaluation: Scouted and evaluated new and emerging technologies, opportunities, prepared business strategy proposals for senior leadership• Proteomics Strategic Memo Lead: Led a team of 11 people from 4 different departments for technical landscaping, market assessment including pricing. Organized KOL events and built short- and long-term proteomics strategy for Illumina• Multi-omics portfolio plan and roadmap co-lead: Contributed to company strategic plan in 2020 and 2021 for pharma and research customers, built revenue models• NGS and array applications for DTC –Executed deep dive market assessment and built revenue model for relevant applications • Developed content, software requirements for pharmacogenomics, still acting as a KOL• Liaison between R&D and Marketing Teams – Enabled timely communication between departments for product development strategy

San Diego, California, Us

• Developed marketing strategies, including market sizing, customer segmentation, and competitive analysis and revenue projections for consumables• Developed and launched the first GPR of Agena Bioscience• Manages $27 M product line globally • Developed and implemented positioning and messaging, sales collateral, training materials to achieve revenue targets

San Diego, California, Us

• Provides sales support via pre-sale feasibility studies, genotyping and methylation projects, and pre-sale product testing• Promotes consumable sales by building customer confidence in Agena Bioscience technology and products through successful service projects• Works with customers designing scientific assays, solves instrument, application, and scientific problems• Generates scientific interest in Agena Bioscience products by presenting at scientific meetings and customized demonstrations to potential and current customers• Contributes expertise and provides ‘voice of the customer’ in synch with marketing counterparts, into continuous product improvement and new product development• Performing proof of principle experiments in collaboration with customers and participating in R&D and marketing projects• Functional manager for one scientist and a senior research associate

San Diego, Ca, Us

Manager of team of seven (one Associate Engineer, six Research Associates)• Commercial Strain Selection Project Leader: Structure strain selection pipeline by establishing genotyping and phenotyping methods and assays; including next-generation sequencing (NGS), genotyping and target trait detection assays. Manage project timelines, resources; coordinate interaction with partner teams • Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) Strategic Partnership Project Leader: In collaboration with ISB, develop a systems biology approach based on genomics and metabolomics. Manage communication, data analysis and data transfer between Sapphire Energy and ISB. Design and manage the execution of experiments. Define key regulatory elements, genes, signaling and biosynthetic pathways to increase product quality and amount• Additional Responsibilities: Set-up a biomarker discovery pipeline to develop abiotic and biotic stress markers by transcriptomics approach. Manage the team to execute experiments and assist data analysis. (The data produced in this effort was used in DOE-TABB grant application submitted on 12/19/2014)• Team member of San Diego R&D Standard Operating Procedures Pipeline. Determine the protocols that will be an SOP. Review and approve new SOP’s

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

• Lead genotyping and phenotyping for disease resistance at pre-commercial phase• Functional manager for two research associates and six temporary scientists• Managed team budget and decreased the disease phenotyping expenses by 10% , through implementing a new screening method • Winner of Global Plant Breeding Excellence Award (2011) for the efforts of ‘Genuity Roundup Ready 2 Yield Varieties for Canadian Market Conversion’

Champaign, Il, Us

• Supervised the research and the budget of the project titled ‘A novel plant driven small molecule with antifungal activity against Asian Soybean Rust disease’, funded by Illinois Soybean Association ($101,423) and USDA/Soybean Disease Biotechnology Center ($13,200) since 2010. • Inventor of defense molecule DB709, U.S. Patent Application No. 12/556,747• Stem‐specific promoter discovery, DOE-ARPA‐e project lead by Drs. Steve Long, Don Ort and Steve Moose. With an agreement between University of Illinois and Monsanto, my affiliation with the Univ. ofIllinois continued during my employment at Monsanto

Champaign, Il, Us

Supervisors; Evan DeLucia, Donald Ort, Steve Clough• Established a new RNA isolation protocol –published in Nature Protocols• Performed high throughput gene expression analysis (Affymetrix and cDNA arrays)• Performed RNA, DNA isolation quantitative real-time PCR, vector construction• Performed LC/MS based secondary metabolite profiling• Designed and executed lab and field experiments, supervised undergraduate students

Istanbul, Istanbul, Tr

• Master thesis supervisor of Burcu Dartan (now a Ph.D)• Biological Sciences and Bioengineering program coordinator• Supervised research funded by Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Council • Lecturer; graduate course ‘RNA structure and function’, forth year undergraduate course ‘Molecular Plant Pathology’, first year course ‘Nature of Science’ (400 students)

New Haven, Ct, Us

Supervisors; Savithramma P. Dinesh-Kumar, Stephen Dellaporta• First time discovery of a double-stranded RNA-dependent protein kinase inhibitor in plants that functions in viral pathogenesis and cell death. Published in Developmental Cell• Awarded with Brown-Coxe Fellowship, Yale University• Prepared normalized and subtracted libraries for gene discovery• Performed Virus Induced Gene Silencing screening• Performed high throughput yeast two-hybrid screening• Isolated genomic DNA, cloned genes and constructed overexpression and RNAi vectors for transformation

Certificate Program, Entrepreneurship And Management

Certificate, Organizational Leadership And Development

Bs, Biology

Ms, Biology

Biology

Phd In Biology, Plant Molecular Biology

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