Western Blotting University

Paul Pease is currently a Field Application Specialist for Bio‑Rad Laboratories in the Central Plains Region of the United States. He joined Bio‑Rad in 2015 and specializes in Western Blotting, Chromatography and Bio‑Plex Multiplex ELISA applications. He earned his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley where he used single‑molecule methods to study the biophysics of DNA motor proteins. His postdoctoral work at the University of California, Davis utilized single‑molecule fluorescence microscopy to investigate DNA repair mechanisms.

Gary Ross earned his PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine in 1984. He worked as a postdoctoral and research associate in the Departments of Neonatology and Pulmonary Biology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. His research focused on the purification and characterization of pulmonary surfactant proteins. Since joining Bio‑Rad in 2006, he has served as Field Application Specialist supporting SELDI‑MS, ProteOn XPR, and proteomics application technologies.

Mauhamad Baarine is a Field Application Scientist at Bio-Rad Laboratories. He specializes in Western blotting, Bio-Plex Immunoassays, and Chromatography. Mauhamad completed his postdoctoral fellowship at Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC where he studied the role of mitochondrial HDAC1 activity in myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury. Mauhamad earned his PhD from the University of Burgundy in France where he developed a new cell line model to study the metabolic dysfunction in X-linked Adrenoleukodystrophy disease.

Brad VanderWielen is currently a Field Application Specialist for Bio‑Rad Laboratories in the South‑Central region of the United States. He specializes in Chromatography, Western Blotting, and Bio‑Plex Multiplex ELISA instrumentation and associated experiments. He has been at Bio‑Rad for 5 years and has been in the field of Chromatography for the past 13 years. He came to Bio‑Rad from his postdoctoral work at UTSouthwestern Medical School where he was utilizing biophysics and X‑Ray crystallography to study tubulin regulation. Brad earned his PhD from the University of Cincinnati where he researched Notch transcriptional regulation utilizing biophysical applications and X‑Ray crystallography.

Kenneth Oh earned his PhD in bioorganic chemistry at UC Santa Barbara, where he synthesized fluorescence‑based peptide beacons that measured nucleic acid and protein binding events. Upon graduation, he co‑founded a biotech company that re‑engineered virus capsids that served as a drug delivery platform. At Bio‑Rad, he develops product applications, establishes collaborations with researchers, and investigates new protein quantitation research tools.