Ph.D. Conferred
UC Riverside · September 2023
Research & Credentials
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.
8
Peer-Reviewed Publications
4
First Author
1
U.S. Patent
17
Years in Science
At the Bench
Cibus · San Diego
Education
Trained in the lab.
UCR
Ph.D., Microbiology
2023University of California, Riverside
Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology · Giraldo Laboratory
UCSD
B.Sc., Biology
2012University of California, San Diego
Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Dissertation
Ph.D. thesis, UC Riverside.
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.
US 11,186,845 B1Issued 2021
“Compositions comprising a nanoparticle, a molecular basket comprising cyclodextrin, and a chloroplast-targeting peptide and methods of use thereof”
View on Google Patents
BASF · San Diego
Scientist III, Host Strain Engineering
Honors & Fellowships
Recognized work.
DoD
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
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.
ΣΞ
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).
UCR
Best Poster
2018Center for Plant Cell Biology Postdoc Symposium · UC Riverside — "Biopharmaceutical production through microalgae photobioreactors mediated by nanomaterial delivery of chloroplast genetic elements."
Publications
Google Scholar Peer-reviewed work.
Published across Nature Nanotechnology, ACS Nano, Molecular Plant, and others. First-author papers marked with a dot.
- 08Newkirk GM, Jeon S-J, Kim H-i, Sivaraj S, de Allende P, Castillo C, Jinkerson RE, Giraldo JP.
- 07Santana I, Jeon S-J, Kim H-I, Islam MR, Castillo C, Garcia GFH, Newkirk GM, Giraldo JP.
- 06Newkirk GM, de Allende P, Jinkerson RE, Giraldo JP.
- 05Wang JW, Grandio EG, Newkirk GM, Demirer GS, Butrus S, Giraldo JP, Landry MP.
- 04Giraldo JP, Wu H, Newkirk GM, Kruss S.
- 03Catalytic Scavenging of Plant Reactive Oxygen Species In Vivo by Anionic Cerium Oxide Nanoparticles.Newkirk GM, Wu H, Santana I, Giraldo JP.
- 02Newkirk GM.Journal of Science Policy and Governance·2018
- 01Tran M, Henry RE, Siefker D, Van C, Newkirk GM, Kim J, Bui J, Mayfield SP.
Now let's do something with it.
17 years of bench science, every night on a microphone, fighting misinformation in real time.