Becca L. Yeamans-Irwin, is a biomedical scientist with extensive
research and laboratory experience in clinical research trials in
immunology and neurology. Educated in environmental sciences, she is the
author of several papers in peer-reviewed journals.
She was born and raised in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, and also
freelances as a writer specializing in the Environmental Sciences as
well as the world of wine, enology, and viticulture.
She received her Bachelor of Science in Biology in 2004 from Saint
Michael’s College in Colchester, Vermont and her Master of Science in
Environmental Sciences (with a focus in Ecology) in 2011 from the
University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Her undergraduate research focused on species diversity of ants and
other ground-dwelling macroinvertebrates in fragmented habitats caused
by human interference, with implications for using ants as potential
indicators of environmental health.
This work has since led to several published articles in peer-reviewed journals.
Her graduate work at the University of Virginia resulted in her
excelling in course and laboratory work throughout the disciplines of
geology, atmospheric science, hydrology, and ecology.
Her strong writing and research skills led to successful grant
applications to fund her Masters’ thesis, entitled “Ecological and
Evolutionary Shifts in Pollen Chemistry and Their Implications for
Pollinators”, which shed light on some of the important questions in the
field of pollination evolutionary ecology and is a key contributor to
the study of pollen nutritional quality for bees.
Her research experience extends from the Environmental Sciences to
biomedical research and also clinical research. While working in a
Harvard Medical School-affiliated Immunology laboratory in Boston, MA,
her hard work and dedication to the world of research led to her
establishment of a human-to-mouse skin transplantation model to study
burn-injury; a first for the laboratory.
Her vast research experience has also included managing and
administering clinical research trials in Neurology, specifically
focused on symptom management and therapies in Multiple Sclerosis.
Aside from published peer-reviewed journal articles based on her past
work, Becca’s passion for writing took off with the establishment of
her blog, The Academic Wino.
The Academic Wino is a highly technical blog, and is dedicated to
dissecting and reviewing current research in enology and viticulture,
while providing insights and thoughts on the current state of research
related to wine.
The articles reviewed span nearly every aspect of academia, and
provide a public forum to discuss the state of research related to wine.
She is also a freelance writer for several wine-related online
publications, in addition to managing her own personal blog.
Becca Yeamans-Irwin lives in Longmont, Colorado with her
loving husband, their dog Crystal (the
Golden Retriever), as well as their cat, Cassie.
When she’s not up to her elbows in peer-reviewed scientific journals,
she can be found spending time with her human and animal family at a
winery, microbrewery, or up in the mountains.
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