Dr. Bjarne R. Bartlett is an award winning molecular biologist. He is a currently a PRODiG+ fellow in Biology at Farmingdale State College. Bjarne received his doctoral degree from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa where he was a graduate fellow with the Hawaiʻi Data Science Institute specializing in bioinformatic approaches for toxin genomics. He has published research in journals such as Science, The New England Journal of Medicine, and Plants, People, Planet (PPP) across the fields of cancer, plant, and yeast genomics. He has also published data science research for citation metrics using large datasets.