Flo Doval

Flo Doval is a registered patent agent with a background in physics, electrical engineering, optics, and biotechnology. She has experience working on patent drafting and prosecution in telecommunications, microelectronics, medical devices, internet-of-things, and other electrical engineering technologies. Prior to joining Harrity & Harrity, Flo was awarded an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship, allowing her to work as an advisor and subject matter expert on international intellectual property policy at the U.S. Department of State. Previously, Flo worked as a patent engineer at Holland & Hart, and completed her Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Utah. During her Ph.D., Flo focused on using optical trapping experiments to probe biological systems on microscopic and nanoscopic scales, and authored a dissertation titled Regulatory Mechanisms in the Kinesin-Microtubule System of Intracellular Transport.

Doval, F. Regulatory Mechanisms in the Kinesin-Microtubule System of Intracellular Transport. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Utah. 2020 Aug.

Doval, F., Chiba, K., Ori-McKenney, K., McKenney, R.,Vershinin, M. (2020). Temperature-dependent activity of kinesins is regulable. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 2020 Jul 30;528(3):528-530.

Osunbayo, O., Miles, C. E., Doval, F., Reddy, B. J. N., Keener, J.P., & Vershinin, M. (2019). Complex nearly immotile behavior of microtubule-associated cargos. Soft Matter February 20, 2019; 15 (8) 1847-1852.

Bergman, J., Bovyn, M., Doval, F., Sharma, A., Gudheti, M., Gross, S., Allard, J., & Vershinin, M. (2018). Cargo navigation across 3D microtubule intersections. PNAS January 16, 2018; 115 (3) 537-542.

Chase, K., Doval, F., & Vershinin, M. (2017). Enhanced stability of kinesin-1 as a function of temperature. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 2017 Nov 25;493(3):1318-1321.

Bergman, J., Doval, F., & Vershinin, M. (2016). Artificial microtubule cytoskeleton construction, manipulation, and modeling via holographic trapping of network nodes. Proc. SPIE 9930, Biosensing and Nanomedicine IX, 993005.

Vershinin, M., Bergman, J., & Doval, F. (2016). Custom complex 3D microtubule networks for experimentation and engineering. SPIE Newsroom, 26 August 2016.