Dina Malounda

Research Technician at Caltech
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(386) 825-5501
Location
San Gabriel, California, United States, US
Languages
  • English Professional working proficiency
  • Indonesian Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Javanese Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Spanish Elementary proficiency
  • Japanese Elementary proficiency
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Credentials

  • Fundamentals of Project Planning and Management
    Coursera
    Aug, 2021
    - Oct, 2024
  • Biological Technology Certification (Certificate of Achievement)
    Pasadena City College
    May, 2016
    - Oct, 2024
  • Biological Technology Certification (Laboratory Assistant)
    Pasadena City College
    May, 2016
    - Oct, 2024
  • Biological Technology Certification (Laboratory Skills Occupational)
    Pasadena City College
    Dec, 2015
    - Oct, 2024
  • Biological Technology Certification (Stem Cell Culture)
    Pasadena City College
    Dec, 2015
    - Oct, 2024
  • Participation in 1-week human embryonic stem cell (hESC) training course
    University of Southern California
    Dec, 2015
    - Oct, 2024

Experience

  • Caltech
    • United States
    • Research Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Research Technician
      • Oct 2016 - Present

      HHMI Affiliate since March 14th, 2022 Administrative duties: - Managing Caltech Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine, including dealing with various vendors for service contract agreements needed for the equipment in Caltech Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine. - Serving as a safety officer for Caltech Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine. - Ordering lab supplies and reagents via Quartzy and JAGGAER Digital Procurement Software. - Preparing shipping documents, export documents, including proforma invoices and export classification forms. - Organizing laboratory events. - Ordering meals for weekly meeting. - Participating as a research mentor in Caltech Summer Research Connection in 2018. Laboratory duties: - Preparing bacterial culture and media (Aphanizomenon flos-aquae, Halobacterium salinarum, and gas-vesicle-producing Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium). - Harvesting, purifying, stripping, dialyzing, unclustering, functionalizing/molecular-labeling gas vesicles. - Culturing mammalian cells (MDA HEK cells, CHO cells). - Maintaining MRI scanners (7 Tesla and 11.7 Tesla): Refilling liquid helium and liquid nitrogen. - Growing and preparing competent cells (TURBO, Stable, BL21, Rosetta™(DE3), Nissle). - Bacterial transformation (heat shock and electroporation). - Expressing engineered plasmids in E.coli. - Preparing Mylar-coated dishes. - Measuring dynamic light scattering (DLS) of clustered and non-clustered gas vesicles. - Measuring collapse pressure of gas vesicles. - Mini-prep, midi-prep and maxi-prep (Plasmid amplification). - Sectioning, immunostaining and confocal imaging mouse brains. - Preparing and loading phantom agarose gels. Show less

  • Caltech
    • United States
    • Research Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • CIRM Bridges Intern
      • Sep 2015 - Aug 2016

      1-year internship. Projects: - Effects of ketamine on two-pore channels. - Neural differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells. Duties: - Maintaining mammalian cell lines, including R1, J1, MEF-CF1, Neuro2a, COS-1, COS-7, HeLa, HEK-293T, and AD-293. - Performing transient transfection. - Laser confocal and TIRF imaging. - Mentoring CIRM SPARK high school students. 1-year internship. Projects: - Effects of ketamine on two-pore channels. - Neural differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells. Duties: - Maintaining mammalian cell lines, including R1, J1, MEF-CF1, Neuro2a, COS-1, COS-7, HeLa, HEK-293T, and AD-293. - Performing transient transfection. - Laser confocal and TIRF imaging. - Mentoring CIRM SPARK high school students.

  • Caltech
    • United States
    • Research Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Research Laboratory Technician
      • Apr 2012 - Jul 2014

      - Whole mount in situ hybridization (WMISH) - Primers design - RNA & DNA purification - WMISH probes preparation - PCR - Sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) embryo culturing - Imaging - Organizing primers and data - Whole mount in situ hybridization (WMISH) - Primers design - RNA & DNA purification - WMISH probes preparation - PCR - Sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) embryo culturing - Imaging - Organizing primers and data

  • Vietnam Kitchen Restaurant
    • Waitress
      • Oct 2005 - Jun 2009

      - Cashier - Packing food - Preparing beverages - Taking orders from customers - Cleaning - Cashier - Packing food - Preparing beverages - Taking orders from customers - Cleaning

  • Taisho Japanese Restaurant
    • United States
    • Restaurants
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Cashier
      • Jun 2005 - Aug 2005

      - Cashier - Packing food - Taking orders from customers - Cleaning - Cashier - Packing food - Taking orders from customers - Cleaning

Education

  • Pasadena City College
    Biotechnology
    2014 - 2016
  • University of California, Berkeley
    Bachelor’s Degree, Molecular Cell Biology
    2009 - 2011
  • Pasadena City College
    Associate’s Degree, General Studies
    2003 - 2007
  • Universitas Airlangga
    Pharmacy
    2000 - 2002
  • St. Louis I Catholic High School (Surabaya, Indonesia)
    High School, Natural Sciences
    1997 - 2000

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