Experience

Savannah River National Laboratory

• United States
• Research Services
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Senior Scientist

  • Sep 2022 - Present



Augusta University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Research Associate

  • May 2020 - Sep 2022

  Lab manager and research associate for two separate infectious diseases labs that employ genetic, microbiology, molecular biology, and protein research.Molecular biology (cloning, PCR, Western blot, site-directed mutagenesis, gene delivery)Cell culture and cell-based assays (transformation/transfection, proliferation assays, bacterial motility, bacterial tube-based chemotaxis, adhesion/invasion, biofilm formation, persister cell isolation)Data analysis

• Graduate Research Assistant

  • Aug 2014 - May 2020

  Studied and performed research in an infectious disease lab that specializes in gastrointestinal bacteria. Discovered properties of a bacterial protein which decreases motility. Invited oral presenter at research conferences and seminars in France, Northern Ireland, and the U.S.