Katy Christiansen
Area Deputy for Science
Head, Strategic Programs Development Group Biosciences Area
Building: 977, Room 0267
Mail Stop: M/S 977
Phone: 510-486-7069
KMChristiansen@lbl.gov
https://biosciences.lbl.gov/strategic-programs-development-group/
Biography
As Area Deputy, Katy Christiansen supports Biosciences ALD Paul Adams, helping to plan and execute long-range strategies to advance the Area’s scientific mission. After earning her PhD in plant science from Indiana University, Bloomington, Christiansen first joined Berkeley Lab in 2008 as a postdoctoral researcher in the plant systems biology group at JBEI. After two years as a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow at the DOE Bioenergy Technologies Office, where she served as a technical adviser and assisted in development of funding opportunities, she returned to the Biosciences Area in 2014 to help lead strategic planning efforts. Her efforts resulted in direct funding from DOE that established the multimillion dollar Agile BioFoundry (ABF) and Trial Ecosystem Advancement for Microbiome Science (TEAMS) programs. As Head of the Strategic Programs Development Group (SPDG) since its inception in 2020, she now leads program development activities and strategic planning for the Area, including building new multi-institutional research programs with other national laboratories. Christiansen is also responsible for the Biosciences Strategic Plan (BSP), a 10-year scientific strategic plan that describes biosciences research aspirations in energy, environment, health, biomanufacturing, and technology development.
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Katy Christiansen Named Biosciences Area Deputy for Science
ALD for Biosciences Paul Adams has appointed Katy Christiansen to the role of Area Deputy for Science following a national search. Christiansen, who has served as Interim Area Deputy since 2021, will work with Adams to support the Biosciences Area’s scientific mission and be responsible for helping to plan and execute our long-range strategy.
Report from Second Plant Single-cell Solutions for Energy and the Environment Workshop Available
On April 29, 2021, Berkeley Lab hosted a second workshop to identify the most pressing barriers to wider adoption of single-cell sequencing and omics technologies, and to discuss solutions to remedy those barriers in order to drive discovery. The workshop report is now available for download.
Christiansen to Assume Interim Area Deputy Role
Katy Christiansen will assume the role of Interim Area Deputy while Paul Adams, Director of the Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, is serving as Associate Laboratory Director (ALD) for the next year.
