About Laura Wayne
Laura Wayne is enrolled in the Molecular Plant Sciences Ph.D. program at WSU, studying in Dr. John Browse’s laboratory. Her research focuses on development of bioproducts, specifically deriving industrial oils from plants. She is investigating safer biological sources for producing castor oil, such as the canola plant, first using a model organism called Arabidopsis. Driven by her passion for the environment and a “yearning quest for discovery,” Wayne seeks to identify renewable sources for domestic oil production “to benefit our environment, boost jobs, and enhance the overall economy.”
At WSU, Wayne is a National Institutes of Health Protein Biotechnology trainee and received a WSU Graduate Student Scholar Award. As an undergraduate at the State University of New York college of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) in Syracuse, she majored in biotechnology and earned a bachelor’s of science degree magna cum laude in only six semesters. She conducted an undergraduate honors thesis with the aid of a fellowship from the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) and presented posters at several ASPB conferences. Wayne was also awarded the SUNY Chancellor's Award of Student Excellence and SUNY-ESF’s Distinguished Biology Scholar Award for Biotechnology. She began her university research as a junior in high school and was a finalist at the International Intel Science and Engineering Science Fair.
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