Shannon Mitchell (she/her/hers) is a graduate student at UW in the Department of Bioengineering. Shannon received her B.S. in Biology from the Xavier University of Louisiana, where she studied Cholesterol-Lipid interactions in the presence of zinc ions using the Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) in the lab of Dr. Anderson Sunda-Meya. Shannon continued to receive her B.S. in Bioengineering from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. She received her M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, where she studied oxytocin receptor variants using Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) to improve the efficacy and safety for oxytocin use in labor and delivery in Dr. Princess Imoukhuede’s lab. Shannon is currently optimizing human hepatocyte organoid expansion for in vitro testing.