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![Photo of Jennifer Young](../images/people/staff1/2023-jennifer-young.jpg)
Back-up: Bryson Howard
- Oversees financial operations and budget for the department
- Approving financial transactions, faculty payroll, salary recovery, leaves, and promotion
- Interpreting and advising on NU policy
- Coordinating effort reporting, annual report, facilities management, and annual space survey, etc.
- Manages department administrative staff
![Photo of Bryson Howard](../images/people/staff1/2023-bryson-howard-resized.jpg)
Back-up: Jennifer Young
- Manages projections for faculty
- Post award management, including advising and assisting with spending plans on grants
- Account reconciliation and award close out
- New chart-field requests
- Level 2 financial approver
- Check deposits
![Photo of Yamina Khouane](../images/people/staff1/2023-yamina-khouane.jpg)
Back-up: Bryson Howard
- Payroll for post-docs and visiting scholars
- Payroll and tuition management for graduate students
- Payroll and onboarding for temps and work-study students
- Level 1 financial approver
- Serves as liaison with McC Customer Service Center for visas and hiring paperwork
![Photo of Olivia Wise](../images/people/staff1/2023-olivia-wise-resized.jpg)
Back-up: Jennifer Young
- Manages recruitment, applications, and admissions
- Assists current graduate students with final thesis presentation paperwork and forms submission to The Graduate School
- Room requests for student milestones
- Organizes seminars and lectures
- Manages hall monitor updates
- Manages monthly departmental newsletter
- Website and social media updates
![Photo of Dana Omar](../images/people/staff1/2023-dana-omar-resized.jpg)
Back-up: Baylee Byers
- First point of contact for the department, providing assistance in all aspects of procedures and services
- Registration and enrollment (permission number waitlists, textbook ordering and quarterly classroom reservations)
- Assist with department special requests
- Meeting room reservation requests
- Assisting student groups (i.e. GSF and AIChE)
- P-card purchases
- Processes purchase orders for ChBE office, ChBE classes and the following labs: Leonard, Lucks, Cole, and Chem Eng 342.
![Photo of Baylee Byers](../images/people/staff1/2023-baylee-byers.jpg)
Back-up: Dana Omar
- Manage special projects for the Department Chair
- Space management (including the conference room, computer lab, and storage room)
- Wildcard Access and facilities requests
- Room reservation requests
- Calendar and meeting support for faculty
- Processes purchase orders for the following labs: Amaral, Lee, Lopez, Richards, Snurr, Torkelson, and Wang.
![Photo of Jenna Jones](../images/people/staff1/2023-jenna-jones-resized.jpg)
Back-up: Yamina Khouane
- Enters expense reports for students, postdocs, and research staff
- Visitor's Expense Reports
- Capital equipment inventory management and requests
- Supplier management
- P-card purchases for conference registrations and lab expenses
- Processes purchase orders for the following labs: Broadbelt, Dunn, Ercek, Jewett, Kung, Notestein, Seitz, and Tyo.
![Photo of Will Chaussee](../images/people/staff1/2023-william-chaussee.jpg)
Back-up: Jennifer Young
- Directly supports Lucks, Leonard, Tullman-Ercek and Jewett Labs
- Manages projections for faculty
- Post award management, including advising and assisting with spending plans on grants
- Account reconciliation and award close out
- Administration of the Biotechnology Training Program
![Photo of Ben P. Nelson](../images/people/staff1/ben-nelson-resized.jpg)
- Manages all proposal preparation and post-award management
- Sponsored research activities compliance monitoring
- Processes OSR2 forms to request account code opening, no-cost extension etc.
- Effort Reporting, Payroll, and NU Financials System backup approver
- Liaison with Office for Sponsored Research (OSR)
Master of Biotechnology
![Photo of Danielle Tullman-Ercek](https://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/images/research-and-faculty/directory/tullman-danielle-t.jpg)
Danielle Tullman-Ercek
Director, Master of Science in BiotechnologyPhone: 847-491-7043
Office: Silverman 3619
Email Danielle
![Photo of Karen Healy Stover](https://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/biotechnology/images/people/faculty-images/healy-stover-karen_250_250.jpg)
![Photo of Igor Kourkine](../images/people/Kourkine-Igor.jpg)
![Photo of Svetlana Korzeniowski](../images/people/staff1/Korzeniowski-Svetlana1.jpg)