Kristin E. Burnum-Johnson

About Kristin E. Burnum-Johnson

Dr. Kristin Burnum-Johnson is a Science Group Leader at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Kristin earned her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Vanderbilt University with Prof. Richard M. Caprioli, and then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at PNNL with Dr. Richard D. Smith. Critical challenges in systems biology, ranging from environmental sustainability to human health, may be addressed through the comprehensive and informative view of underlying biological pathways provided by the integration of spatiotemporal multi-omic measurements (i.e, proteomics, metabolomics, and lipidomics). Kristin’s research is dedicated to achieving transformative molecular-level insights into environmental and biomedical systems by implementing advanced mass spectrometry (MS) instrumentation. She has > 20 years of experience and > 80 publications dedicated to the development and evaluation of in situ imaging MS, structural characterization of molecules using ion mobility-MS, and high-resolution MS analyses of molecules in complex matrices.

Experience

1. Science Group Leader for Functional and Systems Biology

   Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

   Dec 2023 — Present

Education

• University of Washington

  BS, Biochemistry & Chemistry

  1997 — 2002

• Vanderbilt University

  Ph.D., Biochemistry

  2003 — 2008

Skills

• Biology
• Polymerase Chain Reaction (Pcr)
• Chemistry
• Protein Chemistry
• Analytical Chemistry
• Molecular Biology
• Cell Culture
• Bioinformatics
• Bioanalysis
• Lc-Ms
• High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (Hplc)
• High Throughput Screening
• Purification
• Protein Expression
• Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (Lc-Ms)
• Maldi-Tof
• Proteomics
• Pcr
• Gc-Ms
• Hplc
• Mass Spectrometry
• Cell
• Biochemistry