Year Started at SSI 2000

Professional Skills/Experience Dr. Marissa Carter was born in England and obtained an MA in biochemistry from Oxford University. Following a brief research period at St. Bartholomews' Hospital in London on the pineal gland, she moved to the United States, where she spent 2 years as a fellow at MIT. In 1986 she graduated from Brandeis University with a PhD in organometallic chemistry, publishing several groundbreaking papers. From that time until late 1999, she held a variety of positions in the chemical and plastics industries, working in basic laboratory R&D, pilot plants, and full-sized chemical plants. She has also worked in Sales, Marketing, Technical Service, as well as Product Development, thus gaining insight into best practices of teams, TQM, and project management. Since the inception of SSI, she returned to medical research, and has collaborated with several groups in the areas of ophthalmology, oncology, wound care, evidence-based medicine, obesity, and eating disorders, the results of which have been recently published, with many more papers in press. Dr Carter's strengths lie in the many scientific disciplines in which she worked that she brings to bear on medical problems.

College Oxford University, Oxford, England
B.A. in Biochemistry

Post-graduate Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Ph.D. in Chemistry

Year Started at SSI 2007

Professional Skills/Experience Dr. Laura Vanderberg received her Ph.D. in microbial physiology from North Carolina State University where her research focused on bioremediation of chlorinated hydrocarbons and high explosives. As an extension of her Dept of Energy's Environmental Restoration & Waste Management Fellowship, she undertook a postdoctoral research position at Los Alamos National Laboratory. She was hired as a technical staff member in 1995, where she worked on basic and applied bioremediation research efforts. During her tenure at Los Alamos, she became interested in biodefense R&D and became leader of the bioanalytical & biosensors team in the Chemistry Division. In 2000 she moved to Virginia Beach VA where she was a science advisor, working closely with the US Navy SEALs and EOD technicians to bring CBRN defense tools, tactics & procedures to the Special Operations Community. Most recently, she was detailed to Naval Special Warfare Development Group from Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. In 2007, Dr. Vanderberg relocated to Wyoming to explore complementary interests. She currently serves as a technical consultant to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and owns a yoga studio. Dr. Vanderberg's broad background ranges from laboratory bench scale microbiological research to hands-on field testing of chemical & biological detection devices to coordination & facilitation of national & international multidisciplinary workshops. She has a penchant for multidisciplinary team building and a genuine interest in helping others. She is a practical problem solver, technology translator and teacher.

College Auburn University
B.S. in Microbiology

Post-graduate North Carolina State University
Ph.D. in Microbiology

Year Started at SSI 2007

Professional Skills/Experience Kimberly Tingley-Kelley earned her Bachelor of Science in 1989, from the University of Massachusetts, majoring in Psychology and English. She spent several years working in facilities management, as well as space planning and development at both Harvard Medical School and the University of South Florida College of Medicine. In addition, she has worked in medical school course evaluation and coordination, and has considerable teaching experience at the college level. Upon relocating to Philadelphia in 1999, she began her graduate work in the sciences, culminating in a MS in Biology from Temple University. Her published research is in the field of neurovirology, and deals with human immunodeficiency virus-type 1 and cell cycle regulation

College University of Massachusetts
B.S. in Psychology and English

Post-graduate Temple University
M.S. in Biology

Year Started at SSI 2007

Professional Skills/Experience Born and raised in Chicagoland, Jerry got his start in web development and graphic design in 1998. He taught web and graphic design at the junior college and corporate levels. He became a full-time teacher in 2002, teaching computers and Spanish at a parochial school in Illinois. He moved to South Dakota in 2004, where he taught on the Yankton Sioux Reservation for three years. He now teaches high school English, journalism, drama and Spanish in Dubois, Wyoming while still consulting part-time in I.T.

College Joliet Junior College, Joliet, Illinois
A.A. in Sociology

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
B.A. in Creative Writing, minor in Sociology