Susan Kleis San Francisco, Ph.D.

Adjunct Graduate Faculty, Department of Biological Sciences

Susan San Francisco has worked in the Center for Biotechnology and Genomics at Texas Tech University for approximately twenty years and currently serves as the Associate Director. Her areas of expertise include chromatographic separation methods, particularly HPLC, and electrospray mass spectrometry methods, as well as molecular biology techniques.

She teaches graduate courses in Methods in Biotechnology (BTEC 5338), Experimental Mass Sprectrometry (BTEC 5313), and Scientific Communication (BTEC 5100).

She is originally from New York, and received her B.A. in Biology (minor in Chemistry) from the University of Connecticut. She received her Ph.D. in comparative reproductive endocrinology from Boston University with support from an NSF pre-doctoral fellowship. She completed a Mellon Foundation postdoctoral fellowship studying the regulation of oocyte maturation at The Johns Hopkins University School of Health and Hygiene, followed by a post-doctoral appointment at the Ohio State University Institute of Biotechnology studying plant molecular biology. She joined the department of Cell Biology and Biochemistry at Texas Tech University as a post-doctoral fellow studying molecular endocrinology, followed by taking the position of Manager of the Core facility of the Center for Biotechnology and Genomics at Texas Tech University. She currently holds an Adjunct Graduate Faculty position in the Texas Tech University Department of Biological Sciences along with an Associate Research Professor position in the Center for Biotechnology and Genomics

She is a member of the Association for Biomolecular Resource Facilities (ABRF), the Midwest Association of Core Directors, Phi Beta Kappa, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the West Texas Association of Women in Science. She has served on the Advisory Boards of the Molecular Pathology Program (TTUHSC) and the Center for Biotechnology and Genomics, and currently serves on the Advisory Boards of the TTU Obesity Research Cluster and the Phi Beta Kappa Chapter of West Texas and Eastern New Mexico. She has been an internal reviewer for the NSF MRI and the OVPR Proposal Stimulus program among others, and has served as a judge at regional and state science fairs, and graduate student research presentations by the Department of Biological Sciences, TTUHSC and TTUHSC School of Pharmacy.