Brittany Niccum, Ph.D., is a senior commercial product manager at IDT Integrated DNA technologies. Prior to joining Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, Niccum studied the evolution of bacteria at Tufts University as a postdoctoral fellow using cheese as a model organism. She also studied microbial evolution at Indiana University for her Ph.D. She has created constructs for countless E. coli and uses her experience as a bench scientist to inform her work as a product manager. She started as an applications scientist at Beckman Coulter Life Sciences.