17 years at the bench. The receipts.
Peer-reviewed publications, a U.S. patent, the NDSEG and NSF GRFP fellowships, and a Ph.D. dissertation. Everything below is verifiable.
Education
Ph.D., Microbiology
2023University of California, Riverside
Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, Giraldo Laboratory
B.Sc., Biology
2012University of California, San Diego
Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Dissertation
Nanotechnology Approaches for Arabidopsis and Chlamydomonas Chloroplast Bioengineering
Ph.D. Dissertation, Microbiology, University of California, Riverside
September 2023
Committee: Dr. Juan Pablo Giraldo (Chair), Dr. Robert Jinkerson, Dr. Ian Wheeldon
U.S. patent, granted 2021
“Compositions comprising a nanoparticle, a molecular basket comprising cyclodextrin, and a chloroplast-targeting peptide and methods of use thereof”
Honors and fellowships
NDSEG Fellowship
2019National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship: three years of full funding from the U.S. Department of Defense. Awarded to roughly 4% of applicants in the natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering.
NSF GRFP
2019National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, awarded, declined in favor of NDSEG. Cannot accept both; the NSF GRFP carries comparable selectivity and prestige.
Sigma Xi
2019Associate Member of the international scientific research honor society. Founded at Cornell in 1886, invitation-only on the basis of demonstrated research aptitude. Past members include more than 200 Nobel laureates (Einstein, Fermi, Pauling, Watson, Crick).
Best Poster
2018Center for Plant Cell Biology Postdoc Symposium, UC Riverside: "Biopharmaceutical production through microalgae photobioreactors mediated by nanomaterial delivery of chloroplast genetic elements."
Peer-reviewed publications
Published across Nature Nanotechnology, ACS Nano, Molecular Plant, and others. First-author papers marked with a dot.
- Newkirk GM, Jeon S-J, Kim H-i, Sivaraj S, de Allende P, Castillo C, Jinkerson RE, Giraldo JP.Environmental Science: Nano · 2023 · doi:10.1039/D3EN00268C · PDF
- Santana I, Jeon S-J, Kim H-I, Islam MR, Castillo C, Garcia GFH, Newkirk GM, Giraldo JP.ACS Nano · 2022 · doi:10.1021/acsnano.2c02714
- Newkirk GM, de Allende P, Jinkerson RE, Giraldo JP.Frontiers in Plant Science · 2021 · doi:10.3389/fpls.2021.691295 · PDF
- Wang JW, Grandio EG, Newkirk GM, Demirer GS, Butrus S, Giraldo JP, Landry MP.Molecular Plant · 2019 · doi:10.1016/j.molp.2019.06.010
- Giraldo JP, Wu H, Newkirk GM, Kruss S.Nature Nanotechnology · 2019 · doi:10.1038/s41565-019-0470-6 · PDF
- • Catalytic Scavenging of Plant Reactive Oxygen Species In Vivo by Anionic Cerium Oxide Nanoparticles.Newkirk GM, Wu H, Santana I, Giraldo JP.Journal of Visualized Experiments · 2018 · doi:10.3791/58373
- • A 2018 Ballot Measure Analysis for Voters: The CA Water Bond and its Impact on Scientific Research from a Biology Perspective.Newkirk GM.Journal of Science Policy and Governance · 2018
- Tran M, Henry RE, Siefker D, Van C, Newkirk GM, Kim J, Bui J, Mayfield SP.Biotechnology and Bioengineering · 2013 · doi:10.1002/bit.24966