Adam Saunders, Ph. D.

Adam Saunders, Ph.D. has a long and varied work experience. Adam began their career in 2003 as an Undergraduate Research Assistant at Indiana University Bloomington, where they developed methods for quantitative live cell imaging and discovered a novel role for a motor protein in mitosis, resulting in a first-author paper in Current Biology. In 2005, they began Graduate Student work at Stanford University School of Medicine under the Principal Investigator of Dr. Philip A. Beachy. In 2015, they joined the University of Oregon as Research Specialist, where they wrote custom scripts to automate fluorescence microscopy image analysis and quantitation, and provided training and maintenance for a super-resolution microscope. Adam also served as STEM Outreach Coordinator, organizing, designing, and teaching scientific professional development workshops, and monitoring progress and providing research support for over 30 researchers and their mentors. Additionally, they served as an Adjunct Faculty Instructor, teaching Microbiology (BI330) to up to 120 students and designing new course content. In 2019, they joined InVivo Biosystems (Formerly NemaMetrix) as a Senior Scientist, where they designed, led, and delivered over 20 custom contract research projects, and provided expert consultation to clients in the design of their research projects. Adam also mentored multiple teams of interns in the development of custom bioinformatics pipelines.

Adam Saunders, Ph. D. began their educational journey at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where they studied Woodwind Performance and Jazz from 1997 to 2000. Adam then moved on to Indiana University Bloomington, where they earned a BS in Biology from 2001 to 2004. Finally, they completed their Ph. D. in Developmental Biology at Stanford University School of Medicine from 2005 to 2014.