Experience

Cemvita Inc.

• United States
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Scientist II - Strain Development Biohydrometallurgy

  • Dec 2022 - Present

  - Current projects are focused on strain development of extremophilic microbes for improved phenotypes in bioleaching of metals. These strains are poised to support the mining industry and in turn the energy transition.

• Scientist I

  • Feb 2022 - Dec 2022



University of Colorado Boulder

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Associate

  • Oct 2019 - Feb 2022

  Advisors: Dr. Carrie Eckert, Dr. Jeffrey Cameron Projects: -CRISPR engineering of the anaerobic, thermophilic, and cellulolytic bacterium Clostridium thermocellum for improved consolidated bioprocessing phenotypes -mRNA imaging in this bacterium and E. coli using the stable live-cell mRNA aptamer tag Pepper. Advisors: Dr. Carrie Eckert, Dr. Jeffrey Cameron Projects: -CRISPR engineering of the anaerobic, thermophilic, and cellulolytic bacterium Clostridium thermocellum for improved consolidated bioprocessing phenotypes -mRNA imaging in this bacterium and E. coli using the stable live-cell mRNA aptamer tag Pepper.



University of Wyoming

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Student

  • Aug 2014 - Sep 2019

  Advisor: Dr. Naomi Ward Department of Molecular Biology Dissertation project goals and experience: -Sterol synthesis in the bacterium Gemmata obscuriglobus and throughout the Planctomycete and Verrucomicrobia phyla -Gained significant experience in various biochemical assays, LC and GC-MS, qRT-PCR, transcriptomics, light/fluorescence microscopy, data analysis in Unix/R, scientific communication, and scientific writing -Mentored numerous undergraduates in the lab Advisor: Dr. Naomi Ward Department of Molecular Biology Dissertation project goals and experience: -Sterol synthesis in the bacterium Gemmata obscuriglobus and throughout the Planctomycete and Verrucomicrobia phyla -Gained significant experience in various biochemical assays, LC and GC-MS, qRT-PCR, transcriptomics, light/fluorescence microscopy, data analysis in Unix/R, scientific communication, and scientific writing -Mentored numerous undergraduates in the lab



Montana State University-Bozeman

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • Sep 2010 - May 2014

  Dr. Barry Pyle’s Lab Project Description 1 (2010-2012): Microbial source tracking of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli in the little Bighorn River, Southwest Montana. Dr. Seth Walk’s Lab Project Description 2 (2013-2014): Microbial sequence typing of Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from symptomatic patients from an outbreak at the Loyola University Medical Center Dr. Barry Pyle’s Lab Project Description 1 (2010-2012): Microbial source tracking of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli in the little Bighorn River, Southwest Montana. Dr. Seth Walk’s Lab Project Description 2 (2013-2014): Microbial sequence typing of Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from symptomatic patients from an outbreak at the Loyola University Medical Center



Berkeley Lab

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship Intern

  • Jun 2013 - Aug 2013

  Advisor: Dr. Caroline Ajo-Franklin Project description: -Elucidation of protein dynamics in the outer membrane cytochrome MtrC from the Shewanella oneidensis electron transport conduit MtrCAB Advisor: Dr. Caroline Ajo-Franklin Project description: -Elucidation of protein dynamics in the outer membrane cytochrome MtrC from the Shewanella oneidensis electron transport conduit MtrCAB