EAST BAY ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE -- Focus on Careers: FROM SCIENCE TO $ALE$

Join ebAWIS for a panel discussion featuring scientists using their science background in technical sales careers!

Goli Fahid has 8 years of experience in Bio tools sales & marketing and currently holds a technical sales position with LICOR Biosciences. LI-COR Biosciences is a leader in the design and manufacture of instrument systems for biotechnology and environmental research. She is based in East Bay and her territory includes Northern California, Washington and Oregon. Her work has included, but is not limited to calling on researchers and increasing LICOR’s market share through seminars, workshops and demonstrations. Goli has a B.S. in Genetics and a minor in Computer Science from UC Davis.

Kevin Lindquist received his M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo where he studied fluid mechanics and protein surface binding in biosensor devices. Following his graduate studies, he worked as a research scientist and project leader at Alnis Biosciences, Inc. where he synthesized and characterized novel nanoparticles for potential use in targeted drug delivery applications. Following his work at Alnis BioSciences, Kevin joined Biacore, Inc (Part of GE Healthcare) where he has been working for the past 8 years. Currently, he is a Principal Application Scientist in the San Francisco Bay Area where he works with biosensor users in the field, instructs biosensor users at a variety of Biacore training courses, and performs proof-of-concept biosensor studies.

Michelle Alegria-Hartman recently transitioned from a research position, as a Biomedical Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, to VWR as a Life Science Specialist in the sales/marketing group. She has worked on numerous projects including several biodefense projects and the Human Genome Project. Her research has spanned areas of molecular biology, microbiology, genomics, and proteomics. Michelle received her Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics from the University of California, Davis in 2002.

Sharon Squazzo is a Biotechnology Specialist with Sigma Aldrich. This is a technical sales position representing the life science technologies of Sigma Aldrich at academic, biotech and pharmaceutical institutions in the Bay Area Prior to joining Sigma Aldrich in 2007, Sharon worked for fifteen years in molecular and cellular biology research at Harvard Medical School, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, UC  Santa Cruz and the UC Davis Genome Center. Sharon has a B.S. in Microbiology from University of Massachusetts, Amherst.


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