Katie Bodner Spielberg
Principal at 5AM Ventures
Katie Bodner Spielberg
Principal at 5AM Ventures
Boston, Massachusetts
Overview
Work Experience
Principal
2024 - Current
Senior Associate
2023 - 2024
Associate
2022 - 2023
Analyst
2021 - 2021
Fellow
2020 - 2020
Board Observer
2023
Board Observer
2021
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
2020 - 2020
Ph.D. Candidate
2015 - 2020
* Funded by the Hertz-Draper Fellowship and the Stanford SGF and EDGE-STEM Fellowships * Thesis: "An Engineering Approach to Uncover Interactions Between Bacteriophages, Bacteria and Mammalian Cells" * Three first author publications in Cell Systems, STAR Protocols and Trends in Microbiology (doi.org/10.1016/j.cels.2020.02.006, doi.org/10.1016/j.xpro.2020.100084,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2020.10.014).
Research Assistant
2012 - 2015
• Co-authored two publications (Nature Chemical Biology and Expert Review of Vaccines doi.org/10.1038/s41589-018-0146-9 and doi.org/10.1586/14760584.2015.997714) and a patent: U.S. Patent Application No. 15/509,258 (2017). • Earned a Gold Medal at the iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machines) America’s East Regional Competition.
Intern, Late Stage Cell Culture
2014 - 2014
• Engineered E. coli cell lines to reduce acetate accumulation in recombinant protein production during fed-batch fermentation and characterized growth in 10-L bioreactors