Professional Service

• Experimental Biology and Medicine. Role: Associate Editor. Associate Editor for the Synthetic Biology section of Experimental Biology and Medicine (EBM). 08/01/2020 - present
• National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine. Role: Panelist. Panelist (engineering panel) for the Ford Foundation. Review fellowship applications and select recipients for the fellowship. 01/01/2019 - present
• Synthetic Biology Journal (Oxford Press). Role: Board member. Editorial Board. 01/01/2019 - present
• Collegiate Inventors Competition Judge. Role: Judge. Judged applications. 03/2018 - present
• NSF CBET Panelist. Role: Panelist. Reviewed grants. 03/2018 - present
• NSF BMAT Panelist. Role: Panelist. Reviewed grants. 01/2018 - present
• Biomedical Engineering, U Utah. Faculty advisor for the Graduate Women in Biomedical Engineering. 01/01/2018 - 12/18/2018
• ACS Synthetic Biology. Editorial Board Member. 01/01/2018 - 12/18/2018
• Synthetic Biology Journal. Editorial Board Member. 01/01/2018 - 12/18/2018
• National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine. Role: Panelist . Panelist (engineering panel) for the Ford Foundation. Review fellowship applications and select recipients for the fellowship. 01/01/2018 - 12/18/2018
• NSF CAREER (CBET) Panelist. Reviewed CAREER Award grants. 01/01/2018 - 12/18/2018
• Mammalian Synthetic Biology Workshop. Organizing committee member for this annual meeting. 01/01/2018 - 12/18/2018
• Synthetic Biology, Engineering, Evolution & Design. Organizing committee member for the annual meeting. 01/01/2018 - 12/18/2018
• ACS Synthetic Biology . Role: Editorial Board Member. Editorial Board Member. 01/01/2016 - 12/31/2016
• ACS Synthetic Biology. Member. Editorial Board. 01/01/2015 - 12/31/2015
• ACS Synthetic Biology. Role: Member. Editorial Board. 06/01/2014 - 12/31/2014
• ACS Synthetic Biology Journal. Role: Board member. Editorial Advisory Board. 01/01/2014 - 01/01/2023

Internal Service

• Dept. DEI committee. Member, 01/01/2021 - 01/01/2023. Department service.
• Biomaterials Track Chair. Chair, 06/01/2020 - 12/31/2020. Department service.
• Graduate Committee. Member, 01/01/2019 - 12/31/2019. Department service.
• Ran the Dept. seminar series. Organizer, 08/01/2018 - 05/15/2019. Department service.
• U. Utah Pharmaceutics & Pharmaceutical Chemistry chair search committee . Member, 01/01/2018 - 12/31/2019. University service.
• Graduate Committee . Member, 01/01/2018 - 12/18/2018. Department service.
• Graduate Admissions Committee. Member, 01/01/2018 - 12/18/2018. Department service.
• Graduate Committee . Member, 01/2015 - 12/31/2020. Department service.
• Graduate Committee. Member, 01/01/2015 - 12/31/2015. Department service.
• Undergraduate Committee. member, 01/01/2015 - 12/31/2015. Department service.

Outreach

• Ran a STEM Day at the Pacific Heritage Academy. 09/2018 - present
• Camp for Homeschooled Children. 08/2018 - present
• Faculty mentor for HiGEAR camp (Girls Engineering Abilities Realized). 06/25/2015 - 06/25/2015
• Graduate Preparation Institute (GPI). 06/08/2015 - 07/10/2015

In the Media

• The Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) highlighted the work done in my lab in his blog. 08/2020. https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/08/27/tackling-...
• I was interviewed on the Podcast, Undisciplined. 11/2019. https://www.upr.org/post/undisciplined-ecologist-a...
• This story was written announcing me winning a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award. 10/2019. https://unews.utah.edu/stopping-the-spread-of-canc...
• News article on winning Trailblazer Award. 01/01/2018. http://www.bioen.utah.edu/news/articles/tara-deans...
• College of Engineering Research Report. 08/2015. http://www.coe.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/pdf/pub...