Assistant Provost, Office of Sponsored Programs; Director, Center for Student Research and Creative Work
Areas of Interest: Microbial pathogenesis, first-year student success, and student success through research
Office:Kearney 321
Phone:(585) 899-3802
Kristin Picardo
Education:

Ph.D., University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
B.S., State University of New York College at Geneseo

Support for Scholarly Work

Dr. Picardo is the Assistant Provost and oversees the Office of Sponsored Programs and Foundation Relations. In this role, she provides leadership for promoting, securing, and administering external public and private grant funding to support teaching, outreach, and research activities of St. John Fisher University. In addition, Dr. Picardo serves as the founding director of the Center for Student Research & Creative Work. As director, she works with the associate provost, Dr. Eileen Lynd-Balta, an advisory group, and students to develop and expand programs for students in any major to engage in authentic research during their time at Fisher. She also serves as a Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) Councilor where she plays an active role CUR-wide and within the biology division to support student research on a national level.

Learn more about the Center for Student Research and Creative Work

Teaching and Research

Dr. Picardo formerly served as a Professor of Biology and primarily taught General Biology and Microbes & Disease courses. She mentored over 50 undergraduate student researchers in her laboratory. Projects focused on studying pathogenic bacteria and the mechanisms they use to cause disease. Dr. Picardo is a certified Apple Teacher and was actively involved in the iPad Next Generation Learning Initiative, serving as one of the first iFisher Apple Faculty Fellows. In addition, she was the Principal Investigator on Fisher's first National Science Foundation S-STEM grant supporting low-income, academically talented STEM students.

Publications (*denotes undergraduate research student author; also published as “K. Furano”)