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Leighanne Gallington is currently a Physicist at Argonne National Laboratory. She graduated from MIT with an SB in Chemistry in 2006, and received her doctorate in Physical Chemistry from Georgia Tech in 2015. She is now a beamline scientist at beamline 1-ID at the Advanced Photon Source, where she supports x-ray total scattering and diffraction experiments in the Materials Physics and Engineering group.
Leighanne has a long history of engaging with both scientific and educational communities. She has participated in numerous STEM outreach efforts, including career panels and tours for students at all stages of education from elementary to graduate school, and has represented Argonne National Laboratory at conference career fairs. Additionally, she has hosted beamline demonstrations as part of the National X-ray/Neutron School. She previously was a member of a task force for the ACA charged with creating a safe environment for and engaging the entire ACA community, and previously co-chaired the ACA poster sessions (2021-2025). She is currently a member of the ACA Finance committee (2020-present). She welcomes the opportunity to continue to devise strategies to improve community engagement within the ACA as a member of the Community Engagement Committee.
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I am excited for the opportunity to join the Engagements in Structural Sciences Committee. Since first attending ACA 2010, I have been pleased to make my professional home as part of such a vibrant community of scholars. Previously, I have served the ACA as a BioMac SIG officer, secretary (2015-2018) and chair-elect/chair (2022-2023), and also as part of the Communications Committee (2017-2021). In addition I also represented ACA for 3 terms on the AIP Committee Liaison Committee on Underrepresented Minorities (LCURM) (2013-2021), and served as LCURM chair for 5 years. With these experiences, I believe I would be an effective member of the Engagements in Structural Sciences Committee.
Krystle J. McLaughlin is an associate professor in the Chemistry department at Vassar College. She earned a B.A. in Physics from Colgate University in 2006, followed by a PhD in Biophysics at the University of Rochester in 2011. She was then a postdoctoral scholar in the SPIRE program at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which emphasized teaching and pedagogical training, along with traditional research. Her research interests are focused on the biochemical and biophysical study of proteins from diverse microbial systems such as the gut microbe Bacteroides ovatus and antibiotic resistance transfer in Staphylococcus and Salmonella.
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