Haley Pugsley's Biography

Haley Pugsley, Manager and Senior Scientist, Luminex Corporation

Haley R. Pugsley, Ph.D., is a Manager, Senior Scientist for the Amnis Flow Cytometry products at Luminex Corporation-A DiaSorin Company. Haley received her Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Washington working under the direction of Professor Norman J. Dovichi. At the University of Washington, she used capillary electrophoresis to study protein fingerprinting of breast cancer tissue and created two reporter cell lines to investigate the expression of RecA in Deinococcus radiodurans. Dr. Pugsley did her postdoctoral fellowship at Hematologics, Inc. under the direction of Dr. Michael R. Loken where she focused on clinical flow cytometry and its use in diagnosing hematologic malignancies. Dr. Pugsley joined Amnis (now part of Luminex Corporation-A DiaSorin Company) in 2011 developing applications for the ImageStreamX Mk II, FlowSight and CellStream flow cytometers. During her time at Luminex, Dr. Pugsley has worked on many applications including autophagy, immunological synapse, algae biomass, cell signaling, an automated method for leukemia detection using multi-parametric analysis of imaging flow cytometry data and most recently extracellular vesicles.