Faculty Profiles

Dr. Shannon E Weigum

Chair, GSMP Vision 2025 Initiative - Incubator and Accelerator Project. December 2021 - Present.
Member, Education Workforce Council. August 2021 - Present.
Member, Texas Global Health Security Consortium Steering Committee. September 2020 - Present.
Organizer, One Million Cups. September 2020 - Present.
Member, Greater San Marcos Partnership Vision 2025 Steering Committee. January 2020 - Present.
Reviewer / Referee, PLOS One. 2015 - Present.
Member, Financial Aid Advisory, Appeals, and Scholarship Awards Committee. June 2022 - Present.
Organizer, Biology Scholarship and Awards. September 2019 - Present.
Reviewer / Referee, Biomicrofluidics. August 2018 - Present.
Reviewer / Referee, Clinical and Vaccine Immunology. 2014 - Present.
Member, Austin Community College Biotechnology Advisory Board. 2014 - Present.
Reviewer / Referee, BMC Research Notes. 2012 - Present.

Organizer, Nina Vaca Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award. March 2021 - March 2024.
Chair, Scott Emerson Endowed Innovation in Health Award Committee. December 2020 - December 2024.
Speaker, Society of Women Engineers. October 1, 2024.

Member, Minor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship Working Group. August 2021 - December 2023.
Co-Founder and Co-Director, TXST Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. September 2019 - December 2023.
Member, STEM Workforce Advisory Council. December 2021 - 2023.
Member, MSEC Committee to Update Ph.D. Candidacy Requirements. 2020 - 2023.
Member, Associate Vice President for Innovation and Commercialization Search Committee. November 2022 - March 2023.
Member, Intellectual Property Committee. February 2021 - January 2023.

Organizer, Women's Entrepreneurship Week. September 2019 - August 2020.
Organizer, MARC New Ventures Pitch Competition. September 2019 - August 2020.
Judge, Tenth Annual National Undergraduate Global Health Technologies Design Competition. March 27, 2020.
Judge, Health Tech Austin COVID-19 Health Care Heroes. November 19, 2020.
Reviewer, Big Ideas Round II. November 13, 2020.
Reviewer / Referee, NIH SBIR Phase II. November 11, 2020.
Chair, Faculty Search Committee - Parasitology & Immunology. September 2019 - August 2020.
Reviewer / Referee, NIH SBIR Phase II. May 26, 2020.
Reviewer / Referee, NIH SBIR Phase II. March 19, 2020.
Judge, SXSW Innovation Lab. March 15, 2020.
Speaker, Texas State Women in Science and Engineering Conference. March 6, 2020.
Organizer, Women in Science and Engineering Networking Circles. March 6, 2020.

Member, Council on Inclusive Excellence. September 2018 - August 2019.
Reviewer / Referee, National Institutes of Health (NIH). July 8, 2019 - July 10, 2019.
Judge, Ninth Annual National Undergraduate Global Health Technologies Design Competition. March 29, 2019.
Chair, Colene Drace Award Committee for Outstanding Research in Cell and Molecular Biology Selection Committee Chair. 2011 - 2019.
Volunteer, TiE Austin Pitch Competition. November 7, 2019.
Volunteer, Texas MassChallenge Competition. October 17, 2019.
Member, MSEC Committee to Develop Guidelines on Ph.D. Student Research Productivity. March 2019 - August 2019.
Participant, Graduate College Outstanding Dissertation Award Committee. September 2018 - August 2019.
Organizer, Women in Science and Engineering Networking Circles. March 8, 2019.

Reviewer / Referee, National Institutes of Health (NIH). July 10, 2018.
Judge, Eighth Annual National Undergraduate Global Health Technologies Design Competition. March 23, 2018.
Reviewer / Referee, Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting Abstracts. 2018.
Reviewer / Referee, National Institutes of Health (NIH). February 8, 2018 - February 9, 2018.

Member, College of Science and Engineering Safety Committee. 2014 - 2017.
Judge, Seventh Annual National Undergraduate Global Health Technologies Design Competition. March 24, 2017.
Reviewer / Referee, National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Scholarship. February 1, 2017.

Member, MSEC Organizing Committee. 2013 - 2016.
Member, MSEC Admissions Committee. 2011 - 2016.
Speaker, Women in Science and Engineering Anderson High School. November 19, 2016.
Session Chair, Eighth International Research Conference for Graduate Students. November 16, 2016.
Session Chair, Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting. October 7, 2016.
Organizer, Poster Session for PREM Summer Research Conference. June 26, 2016 - June 28, 2016.
Attendee / Participant, Texas Healthcare and Bioscience Summit. May 5, 2016 - May 6, 2016.
Host, SACNAS-sponsored STEM Open House Tour of research labs for San Marcos high school and middle school students, May 1, 2015. April 22, 2016.
Judge, Sixth Annual National Undergraduate Global Health Technologies Design Competition. April 15, 2016.
Seminar Host, Department of Biology Seminar Series - Dr. Jim Wittliff. April 8, 2016.

Reviewer / Referee, Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting Abstracts. 2015.
Member, Microbiology Assistant Professor Search Committee. 2013 - 2015.
Panel chair, 7th International Research Conference for Graduate Students. November 2015.
Panelist at UT College of Natural Sciences, Graduate Student/Postdoc Professional Development Seminar. July 21, 2015.
Host, SACNAS-sponsored STEM Open House Tour of research labs for San Marcos high school and middle school students, May 1, 2015. May 1, 2015.
Judge, Fifth Annual National Undergraduate Global Health Technologies Design Competition. March 27, 2015.

Reviewer / Referee, Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting Abstracts. 2014.
Other, Department of Biology Strategic Hiring Plan Committee. 2013 - 2014.
Member, Homer E. Prince Professor of Microbiology Selection Committee. 2013 - 2014.
Session Chair, Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting. October 25, 2014.
Seminar Host, Department of Biology Seminar Series - Dr. Assem Abolmaaty Sayedahmed. September 5, 2014.
Judge, Fourth Annual National Undergraduate Global Health Technologies Design Competition. March 28, 2014.
Judge, Texas State 1st Annual Three Minute Thesis Competition. February 28, 2014.

Biology representative at Texas State Science and Engineering Industry Day. November 22, 2013.
Representative, Texas State Science and Engineering Industry Day. November 22, 2013.