Julia McCartney

Julia McCartney has six years of work experience. In 2023, they began working as a Research Associate II at GRO Biosciences. From 2019 to present, they have been a Graduate Student and Research Assistant at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where they have been exploring interactions between amphibian hosts, their skin microbiomes, and the skin fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal). From 2017 to 2018, they were a Laboratory Assistant at North Central College, where they were responsible for preparing reagents, buffers, and chemicals, as well as setting up and breaking down the teaching laboratory space. In 2018, they were a Summer Undergraduate Research Intern at The Jackson Laboratory, where they worked to culture potentially novel bacterial strains from murine fecal samples and to investigate the recovery of and changes in the murine gut microbiome composition after treatment with a humanized dose of antibiotics. In 2017, they were a Summer Undergraduate Research Intern at The Scripps Research Institute - Florida campus, where they co-designed and synthesized small molecule inhibitor derivatives in order to optimize the peptoid KDT-11 for medical applications. Finally, in 2016, they were an Undergraduate Research Assistant at North Central College, where they collaborated to design experimental procedures for the purification of inhibitory factors from Bacillus anthracis (Sterne strain) and Aeromonas jandaei.

Julia McCartney attended North Central College from 2015 to 2019, where they earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry. Julia then attended UMass Boston from 2019 to 2022, where they are currently pursuing a Master of Science degree.