Phillip Brown, Ph.D. - Service & Outreach

Dr. Phillip Brown working with NCSD students on a CRISPR experiment.

Dr. Carly Sjogren and Dr. Emily Cartwright working with NCSD students on plant anatomy.

Collaboration with the North Carolina School for the Deaf

The NCSU Biotechnology Program and NC School for the Deaf (NCSD) have formed a collaboration to provide experience with biotechnology techniques to high school students. Each Spring semester NCSD students and teachers travel to NCSU campus while every Fall semester NCSU BIT instructors travel to the NCSD campus in Morganton, NC. Each visit covers a unique topic in biotechnology and focuses mainly on hands-on student activities. Topics and activities from previous semesters can be found below:

Spring 2025: Soil Science & Meiosis

Visualization of meiosis in C. elegans ooctyes
Building Winogradsky columns

Fall 2024: CRISPR Genetic Engineering

CRISPR-Cas9 editing in Escherichia coli

Spring 2024: Fluorescence Microscopy

Visualization of fluorescent (GFP) Drosophila
Visit to Dr. Orlando Arguello-Miranda's laboratory

Fall 2023: Caenorhabditis elegans

Phenotypic evaluation of wild-type and mutant worms via microscopy
Genotypic evaluation of wild-type and mutant worms via PCR and gel electrophoresis

Spring 2023: Plant Anatomy & Biology

Anatomy of flowers and other plants
Visualization of fluorescent (GFP) plants
Tour of the NCSU Plant Sciences Building

Outreach & Volunteer Activities

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences – Investigate Lab Volunteer (2025)
The Science House Catalyst Program, Reach for the Stars! Be a Star! STEM Fair (April 2023, April 2024, April 2025, April 2026)
UNC Pembroke COMPASS Biotechnology Outreach Event – NCSU (January 2024)
MAE 591 Lake Johnson Aquatic Microbiology Outreach Event – NCSU (October 2018)

Committee Membership

Public Relations Committee Chair, NCSU Department of Biological Sciences (2025 - Present)
Communications Chair, American Society for Microbiology – North Carolina Branch (NC ASM) Executive Committee (2025 - Present)

Academic Research Judging & Panel Participation

Plant and Microbial Biology Graduate Student Association Poster Symposium Judge – Raleigh, NC, USA (Spring 2026)
NC State Life Sciences First Year Externship Class Panelist – Raleigh, NC (Spring 2026)
Integrative Symposium of NC State Training Grants Judge – Raleigh, NC (Spring 2025, Spring 2026)
North Carolina American Society for Microbiology Meeting Judge – NC, USA (Fall 2023, Fall 2025)
BIT 402/502: Networking and Professional Development - Mock Interviewer – NCSU (Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025)
NC State Undergraduate Research & Creativity Symposium Judge – Raleigh, NC (Spring 2023, Spring 2024)
North Carolina Student Academy of Science State Competition Judge – NC School of Math & Science (Spring 2023, Spring 2025)
BIT 402/502: Networking and Professional Development - Government Careers Panelist – NCSU (Spring 2017)

Peer Reviewer for Academic Journals & Publishers

Archives of Microbiology (Published by Springer Nature, ISSN: 0302-8933)
BMC Genomics (Published by Springer Nature, ISSN: 1471-2164)
Functional & Integrative Genomics (Published by Springer Nature, ISSN: 1438-7948)
Gut Pathogens (Published by Springer Nature, ISSN: 1757-4749)
Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education (Published by American Society for Microbiology, ISSN: 1935-7877)
Scientific Reports (Published by Springer Nature, ISSN: 2045-2322)
Veterinary Research Communications (Published by Springer Nature, ISSN: 0165-7380)

Website Development

American Society for Microbiology – North Carolina Branch (NC ASM) Website Developer - northcarolinaasm.org
NCSU Biotechnology Program Website Contributor - biotech.ncsu.edu
NCSU Department of Biological Sciences Website Contributor - bio.sciences.ncsu.edu

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