• Dr. Wayne Anderson – Core Facility Manager.
    Wayne is a research associate and the day-to-day manager of the core facility. He received his BS in natural products chemistry from SUNY ESF, his PhD in pharmacology from the University of Rochester, then spent 20 years as a chemist in the pharmaceutical industry. He’s been the core facility manager since 2021 and is happy to get back to his environmental chemistry roots. In his free time, Wayne is an avid canoeist on our local rivers. We’re very lucky to have Wayne running the CCECF!

 

 

 

 

    • Dr. Scott McArt – Core Facility Director.
      Scott is an associate professor of pollinator health in the Department of Entomology and is the current director of the core facility, which is adjacent to his lab. More info about the McArt lab and Scott’s research/extension activities can be found at his lab website.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Dani Dryer – Research Support Specialist.

Dani grew up in upstate New York and fell in love with chemical ecology while receiving her BS at Cornell. She spent two years as a lab manager at St. John Fisher College, then completed a Masters at SUNY ESF, researching volatile cues of an obligate parasite of birds in the Galapagos. She then spent three years working for the USDA-ARS in Manhattan, KS on various GC-MS, GC-EAD, and GC-EAG applications before returning to Cornell to join our core facility. We’re very happy to have Dani back at Cornell in the CCECF!

 

 

 

 

  • Dr. Angélica Sanchez – Postdoc.

Angélica splits her time between the core facility and the McArt lab. She completed her PhD in biochemistry at the University of São Paulo in 2017, then worked as a postdoc and adjunct faculty at the Center for Biological Sciences at the Federal University of Ouro Preto (Brazil) before coming to Cornell. She’s currently using her analytical chemistry expertise to improve and broaden our multi-residue pesticide analyses, and will soon be adding a genomic component to her pesticide risk to pollinators research. Twitter: @angelisanchez9

 

 

 

  • Christina Zhao – Technician.

Christina obtained her BA from Cornell in 2021, completing an excellent senior Honors thesis on pesticide risk to bees during apple pollination. She spent a summer becoming a honey bee larval grafting expert, then honed her analytical chemistry skills in the core facility, where she’s been a full-time technician since 2022. Christina is very comfortable at the lab bench and she keeps the facility impeccably organized. In her free time, she enjoys being a chicken enthusiast! Twitter: @chaoticzhao

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Tomas Quezada – Technician.

Tomas has been honing his bee disease and molecular screening skills since joining our lab in spring 2022 and working on our BEEID project. Now he’s excited to apply his laboratory diligence to our chemistry work in the CCECF. Tomas is hoping to pursue a PhD in herpetology (his true biological passion) in the near future. He’s also a big fan of Bad Bunny.