Wesley D. Marner Ii Email & Phone Number

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

• In this role, I am responsible for providing professional development opportunities to trainees at the Morgridge Institute and the UW-Madison community. My philosophy is to foster the development of the "whole.
• Administration of the Morgridge Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
• Curation of ongoing professional development workshops and courses for research trainees
• Development of public engagement programs for the Institute
• Development of Youth Apprenticeship and Internship programs for young scientists
• Liaison to the UW-Madison office of Postdoctoral Studies and the UW-Madison Graduate School's Office of Professional Development

Madison, Wisconsin

• I lead a team of full-time and student staff responsible for:
• Operation of the Discovery Volunteer program
• Coordination of all K-12 and WARF programming in the Discovery Building
• Management of the Discovery Teaching Labs, including personnel safety
• Delivery and growth of our flagship summer camp program
• Design and delivery of new teaching modules for outreach contentI also provide operational leadership for Discovery Outreach:

Madison, Wisconsin

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• In this concurrent role, I manage critical aspects of the Wisconsin Science Festival, including:
• Securing grant funding for diversity program initiatives
• Managing partnerships with multiple UW-Madison units
• Building relationships with government agencies
• Coordination between event production, communications, and fundraising teams
• Operation of the Festival steering committee

Madison, Wisconsin

In addition to managing Applikon, Inc.'s portfolio of small-scale cultivation and monitoring technologies, I provided technical consulting and engineering expertise for the biotechnology industry. My focus was on early development technologies (e.g., tools for control and monitoring of cultures ranging from 500uL to 500mL) and small-scale process.

I provided technical consulting and engineering expertise for the biotechnology industry. My focus was on early development technologies (e.g., tools for control and monitoring of cultures ranging from 500uL to 500mL) and small-scale process development tools (benchtop bioreactors).I also provided specific expertise in biofuel development environments.

Performed scientific content review to advise authors before manuscript submissionPerformed copy editing to help non-native English speakers refine manuscript language

• Director of Experimental Fermentation at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center
• Co-led a group of scientists engineering microbes to convert lignocellulosic biomass into fuel.
• Built and managed an advanced fermentation facility used to evaluate engineered microbes.
• Applied metabolic engineering and synthetic biology techniques to the engineering of biofuel-producing microorganisms.

I led a collaborative research group charged with engineering biofuel-producing microbial strains and feedstock hydrolysates. Much of our work was centered on developing models for microbial growth and on generating transcriptomic, metabolomic, and proteomic datasets on engineered and evolved strains.

* LYCRA(R) Research Development

Ph.D., Chemical Engineering

Industrial Fermentation And Microbial Physiology

Bs, Chemical Engineering