Dr. Linnea Fletcher will discuss her work as Principal Investigator with InnovATEBIO and Chair of the Biotechnology Department at Austin Community College
She received her Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Texas at Austin, along with two postdocs, one from Southwestern Medical Center and the other from the Biochemistry Department at the University of Texas. She joined Austin Community College as a Department Chair in Biology, and started the Biotechnology Program in 1999. She joined the first NSF Funded National Biotechnology Education Center, Bio-Link and received her first NSF funded ATE grant to start Biotechnology high school programs in Texas. In 2015, she received an Emerging Technology Fund Grant to build a Bioscience Incubator at ACC and several Wagner Peyser Grants to equip it. Today the incubator is full of start up companies and students interning or working for these companies. She was PI of the AC2 Bio-Link Regional Center, and is now the PI of InnovATEBIO, the NSF funded National Biotechnology Center. Combining economic development with educational opportunities is her passion.
