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Samantha Peters

Innovation Fellow

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Samantha Peters, Ph.D., joined DARPA in January 2024. 

Prior to joining DARPA, Peters was a postdoctoral researcher in the Integrative Microbiomics Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), where she studied the development and application of novel functional genomics approaches to analyze multi-kingdom interactions and dynamics in diverse environments. 

Her dissertation work was conducted in the Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry group at ORNL and focused on the implementation of mass spectrometry-based metaproteomics approaches to study the functionality of the human gut microbiome. 

Prior to her doctoral work, she was a research associate in the Discovery Sciences Division at SomaLogic, Inc. (Boulder, Colo.), where she designed and characterized aptamers to facilitate disease biomarker discovery and validation.

Education

  • Ph.D., Genome Science and Technology, University of Tennessee
  • B.S., Microbiology, South Dakota State University

 

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