Erin Mckenney
Assistant Professor Director Of Undergraduate Programs
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
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Top SchoolErin Mckenney is an Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Programs with 14 years of experience translating microbial ecology into hands-on research and classroom-ready citizen science. She designs scalable, authentic experiments—from gut microbiomes in primates to sourdough and fermented foods—that engage students and the public while generating publishable data. Her work bridges microbial ecology, nutrition, and comparative gut morphology, and she leverages large, crowd-sourced sample collections to study evolutionary adaptation across species. As an educator and curriculum developer she emphasizes active learning, autonomy, and transferable skills to prepare students for scientific careers. Notably, she has built cross-platform bioinformatics tools and classroom pipelines that bring next-generation sequencing and metagenomics into undergraduate and K–12 settings.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Biology major, Bioinformatics minor, PhD, Biology major, Bioinformatics minor at Duke UniversityMS, Animal Science major, Biotechnology / Nutrition minor, GPA: 3.92, MS, Animal Science major, Biotechnology / Nutrition minor, GPA: 3.92 at North Carolina State UniversityBS, Biology major, Chemistry minor, GPA: 3.05, BS, Biology major, Chemistry minor, GPA: 3.05 at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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