Keynote Speaker
DOE National Laboratory Speakers
Jeanne Fair
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Andy Glen
Sandia National Laboratories
Workshop Organizers
Cathy Branda
Sandia National Laboratories
Dr. Catherine (Cathy) Branda is a Senior Manager at Sandia National Laboratories. She currently leads the Radiation Signatures and Detection S&T group (2021-), having led the Applied Bioscience & Engineering group since 2016, both within Sandia’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) Defense and Energy Technologies Center. Cathy also serves as the Sandia program manager for Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and DoD’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Chemical and Biological R&D (DTRA-RDCB). Cathy has been at Sandia over seventeen years; in addition to her management roles, she has held a variety of positions including Technical Staff, Systems Biology Department Manager, Reducing Global Biological and Chemical Mission Area Lead, and Chair of the Sandia Women’s Connection. She received a B.A. in Cognitive Science from Vassar College, and an M. Phil. and Ph.D. in Genetics from Yale University School of Medicine. She also completed a Cytogenetics Clinical Fellowship in Cytogenetics at Harvard Medical School before joining Sandia in 2005.