Arielle Kohl , BS

2012-2015: Bachelor of Science in Behavioral Neuroscience, minor in Biology awarded cum laude December 2015 from Western Washington University. Undergraduate researcher with Dr. Benjamin Miner, published work concerning thermal stress and mortality in Ochre Sea Stars due to Sea Star Wasting Disease (PlosOne, April 2016).
2016-2022: itinerant minister in Washington state and North Idaho.
2022-2024: Clinical laboratory technician and researcher at University of Washington Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Research Virology.

Beginning in 2016 I worked as an itinerant, non-denominational Christian minister, gaining significant experience in public speaking, active listening, grief counseling, interpersonal communication, project management, and elder care. I lived and worked amongst diverse populations in Washington State and North Idaho for 6 years, learning the great value of accepting people as they are, and the tremendous power of compassionate conversation. 

In 2022 I left the ministry to return to academia and research. Beginning with a short time as a seasonal Fisheries Technician with WDFW, and followed by nearly 2 years in the Virology Research Division of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of Washington; focusing on clinical trials utilizing a qPCR assay for pharmaceutical treatment of Monkeypox as well as several instrumentation validations for high throughput SARS-CoV2, Influenza A/B, and RSV diagnostic testing. Most recently shifting to a late-phase HSV novel pharmaceutical trial involving both genotypic and phenotypic assays.

As an undergraduate I conducted independent and directed experiments concerning mass mortality due to Sea Star Wasting Disease in the laboratory of Benjamin Miner, PhD at Western Washington University, which was published in PLoSOne in August of 2016.

Molecular immunology and the impact of environmental stressors on immunocompetence in marine organisms and communities.

Decreased Temperature Facilitates Short-Term Sea Star Wasting Disease Survival in the Keystone Intertidal Sea Star Pisaster ochraceus Decreased Temperature Facilitates Short-Term Sea Star Wasting Disease Survival in the Keystone Intertidal Sea Star Pisaster ochraceus

PLOS One · Apr 29, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0153670