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Students

Students learn the skills to become entry-level biotechnology lab technicians through courses including chemistry, laboratory safety, microbiology and communications to name a few. 

Faculty and Staff

Sheryl Horstman, BSC, Biotechnology Instructor
253.680.7470 - shorstman @ bates.ctc.edu

Sheryl Horstman earned B.S. degrees in biology and geology from Oregon State University. She served as a student assistant in climate change studies aboard the RV Wecoma; a teaching assistant for Department of Geosciences; and in Forestry Sciences introducing disease resistant genes to the Populus tomentosa and sterility to Populus deltoides through agrobacterium mediated natural competence transformation. 

Sheryl began working in the private sector in 1996 as a laboratory technician, in Lupus and septic shock research. She secured a research associate position performing efficacy/specificity assays against primary cancer cells, worked as a lab tech position in UW Cytogenetics; a Research Associate for contracted dose dependent toxicity studies in a FDA audited GLP facility; and served as a research scientist studying diabetes.

December of 2006, Sheryl began employment as an instructor at Bates Technical College.  
 

Kelly Hamilton, MS, BA, AS, Biotechnology Instructor
253.680.7452 - khamilton @ bates.ctc.edu

Instructor Kelly Hamilton earned his B.A. in biology with a minor in chemistry from California State University at Fullerton with honors. He went on to earn his M.S. in genetics from the University of Washington where he researched drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum, the organism that causes malaria.

Kelly has served as the assistant laboratory services manager for the biology, chemistry and physics programs at Seattle Pacific University, and was the biology/biotech laboratory manager and adjunct faculty in biology/biotechnology at Shoreline Community College.

In September 2000, Kelly accepted the position of biotechnology lab technician program instructor at Bates Technical College. His current research interest is the development of resistance to azole drugs in the pathogenic organism Candida albicans.  
  

Bob Traufler, Career Specialist
253.680.7412 - btraufler @ bates.ctc.edu