Sarah earned two B.S. degrees from Utah State University: Biology and Biological Science Composite Teaching with a minor in Chemistry Teaching. She taught 8th grade science and 9th grade Biology at a junior high in Utah for two years. A military assignment for her husband brought Sarah to Kansas where she worked as a Research Assistant at Kansas State University's Integrated Genomics Facility (IGF). As a Research Assistant, she made NGS libraries for sequencing on the Illumina MiSeq and Illumina NextSeq 500. In September 2022, Sarah transitioned to her current position as a Program/Project Coordinator for the WGRC and Akhunov lab. In 2023, Sarah earned her M.S. in Academic Advising from Kansas State University.Sarah Bastian
Sarah earned two B.S. degrees from Utah State University: Biology and Biological Science Composite Teaching with a minor in Chemistry Teaching. She taught 8th grade science and 9th grade Biology at a junior high in Utah for two years. A military assignment for her husband brought Sarah to Kansas where she worked as a Research Assistant at Kansas State University's Integrated Genomics Facility (IGF). As a Research Assistant, she made NGS libraries for sequencing on the Illumina MiSeq and Illumina NextSeq 500. In September 2022, Sarah transitioned to her current position as a Program/Project Coordinator for the WGRC and Akhunov lab. In 2023, Sarah earned her M.S. in Academic Advising from Kansas State University.










