Science Field: Biology

Cherrie Calderon is a chemist and environmental consultant! She is a registered chemist with 20 years of establishing and managing environmental laboratories.

Valerie Valeriano is a research engineer at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Currently, she is working on developing a culturomics platform for women’s health and oncobiomics.

Jewel Yabut is a molecular biologist and phylogenist who has recently finished her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from Korea University. Her research focuses on the Phylogeny of an insect group (Trichoptera) that can be found in clean streams and rivers.

Pierangeli Vital is an environmental microbiologist whose research aims to answer food safety issues and focuses on identifying contamination in agricultural products and sources.

Valerie Diane Valeriano is a molecular infection biologist whose research focuses on the understanding of the transmission dynamics of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes.

Angelita Acebes is an entomologist and applied ecologist whose research focuses on insect biology, behavior and ecology with the goal of developing sustainable and effective management strategies against insects that are detrimental to agricultural production.

Aimee Dupo is the UP Los Baños Museum of Natural History’s curator for moths and spiders, as well as a Professor and Graduate School Secretary at UPLB. She has described more than 49 species of spiders and 22 species of rice black bugs.

Gabriel Villamil is a molecular biologist pursuing his Ph.D. at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany.

Edward Pajarillo is a neuroscientist and microbiologist and is currently a Research Assistant Professor at the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida, USA.