Holly Ahern is an award-winning professor of microbiology at SUNY Adirondack in Queensbury, NY with over 30 years of teaching and research experience in molecular biology and microbiology. She has written nationally published laboratory textbooks in cell and molecular biology, and is the author of scientific articles published in both scholarly and trade journals. Ahern was named a National Science Foundation American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Biology Scholar in 2008, completing the Biology Scholar Transitions Residency program in 2011. Her goal is to capture student interest in microbiology and science by immersing them in research.