Justin Watkins, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Chapel Hill, NC, US

Chapel Hill, NC, US

Durham, North Carolina, US

Durham, North Carolina, US

• Technical lead for multiple Phase 1&2 pipeline projects to support our process development teams
• Mentor and trainer for my team of analysts, providing technical guidance, training, goal alignment, and professional development to achieve individual and team success
• Expert in technical and persuasive communication to a diverse audience: o Effectively communicate data trends and bottlenecks to appropriate internal and external stakeholders, escalating issues that impact project.
• Analyze in-process data to ensure that trends are suitable to report for process development support
• Streamline data collection, analysis and reporting by developing Instrument, Processing, and Report Methods with appropriate custom fields in Empower
• Execute and plan analytical testing and schedules for myself and junior team members to ensure deliverables are on time for client milestones and meet company standards.

Raleigh, North Carolina, US

• High-throughput Discovery Science and Inquiry-based Case Studies for Today's Students (HITS) NetworkCase study developed by my team:"Quantitative analysis of high-throughput fluorescence microscopy images from Allen.
• Provide workshops, a virtual community, and online resources to foster high-throughput research and its integration into the classroom
• Connect researchers and educators to design and assess quantitative biology case studies based on high-throughput discovery research
• Create a diverse consortium of institutions committed to implementing these quantitative educational tools in biology courses and curricula across the country and worldHigh-throughput approaches can open the doors to.

Chapel Hill, NC, US

• Advisor: Alan M. Jones
• Initiate and manage a 14-person multidisciplinary project spanning 4 labs across three universities to create a map of early cell signaling events caused by pathogen invasion: outline goals and target deadlines, assess.
• Wrote numerous workflows and peer-reviewed journal articles, including one published in Science Signaling
• Excellent persuasive and technical oral/written communication skills demonstrated by an awarded 3-year NIH research fellowship and 7 seminars and 11 poster presentations at international conferencesMain projects in the.
• Mass spectrometry-based quantitative proteomics to capture the phosphorylation states of proteins and amino acid residues in response to flg22, a pathogen-associated peptide that triggers the innate immune response3).
• Fiji ImageJ, Imaris, GraphPad Prism, Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop

Chapel Hill, NC, US

• The Seeding Postdoctoral Innovators in Research and Education (SPIRE) program at UNC Chapel Hill is a 3-year research fellowship, funded by the NIGMS via IRACDA (NIH K12 award).
• Enabled me to excel in both research and teaching-Research in the laboratory of Dr. Alan Jones at UNC-CH -Teaching as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNCP)Accomplishments:
• Instructor on record for 2 courses at UNC Pembroke
• Completed a semester-long course, College Teaching, lead by Dr. Ed Neal, that focused on pedagogy and undergraduate mentoring
• Research mentor for the SPIRE Summer Undergraduate Research Program in 2019
• Certificate of completion of The Flipped Classroom workshop, a 4-part workshop series with Dr. Barbi Honeycutt

Pembroke, NC, US

• Spring 2020: Introduction to Microbiology (BIOL3150)
• Mixed lecture and active learning - 20 Students
• Conducted an IRB approved education research project titled:"Incorporating exam wrappers into a college-level microbiology course to foster critical evaluation of study habits among undergraduate students"
• Transitioned online to asynchronous format in March due to the onset of with coronavirus pandemicFall 2020: Principles of Biology (BIOL1000)
• Mixed lecture and active learning - 26 StudentsCollaborated with the UNCP Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (RISE) program to develop three professional development workshops
• Workshops included guided self-reflection and group discussion to identify, apply for, and interview effectively at graduate programs and internships that align with the student’s interests and career.

Winston-Salem, NC, US

• Building on the Muday Lab's research on redox signaling in roots, I pioneered a novel research project that explored the function of flavonoid antioxidants in guard cells on leaves. This project resulted in a new field.
• Project manager for 3 projects, each spanning multiple labs, resulting in 5 peer-reviewed publications
• Implemented new imaging technology, to discover and characterize the role of small molecule antioxidants and hormones in regulating cell signaling and organismal development in model systems
• Conducted tutorials and workshops on advanced microscopy techniques to WFU students, postdocs, and faculty and to local middle and high school students
• In conjunction with the microscopy core director: traveled to ZEISS Microscopy Customer Center New York to demo new equipment for the chemistry, physics, and biology departments at WFU. -Advised specific WFU labs on.
• 2 research fellowships awarded, totaling $105,000 and 3 years of funding

Winston-Salem, NC, US

• $80,000 research fellowship for 2 yearsProject: Hormone cross talk modulates redox signaling in tomato guard cells to control stomata aperture and water loss.
• Applied my previous research experiences to the crop plant tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)
• Presented my research at the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Project Directors Conference in Washington D.C.
• Cultivated tomato plants in growth chamber, green house, and field environments for experiments
• Lead to a first-author publication in Plant Physiology in 2017 (https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.17.01010).

Winston-Salem, NC, US

• $25,000 research fellowship for 1 yearProject: Discover and characterize the role of flavonol antioxidants in regulating redox signaling and drought stress in Arabidopsis
• Presented my research at the Wake Forest University Center for Molecular Signaling conference in Winston-Salam, NC
• Coauthored with the first undergraduate mentee of my career, Paul Heckler
• Lead to a first-author publication and the cover art for Plant Physiology in 2014 (https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.113.233528)

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Biology/Biological Sciences, General

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biology, General