Presenting Author
Denison University
Ayana Hinton is an Associate Professor teaching in the Biology department at Denison University in Granville, OH. Her research interests focus on the “a” subunit isoforms of the Vacuolar H+-ATPase and the role they play in breast cancer metastasis. Ayana received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1996. She worked for International Paper before leaving to pursue a Ph. D in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Wayne State University. She completed her Ph. D in 2004 and went on to do a post-doctoral fellowship at Tufts University’s School of Medicine. In 2010, she began as an assistant professor at Denison University in Granville, OH in the Biology department. Subsequently, she was promoted to associate professor and awarded tenure. Her teaching focuses on the molecular and cellular level of biology and additionally, she teaches general microbiology and has taught a class on microbiomes for non-biology majors.