Experience

The EVERY Company

• United States
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Scientist - Strain Engineering

  • Apr 2023 - Present

• Scientist II - Strain Engineering

  • Mar 2021 - Present



University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Research Assistant

  • Aug 2013 - Aug 2020

  My thesis work focused on studying the roles of sphingolipids/VLCFAs and phoshphatidylinositol-phosphate lipids in homotypic vacuolar fusion, membrane trafficking, and cytokinesis in budding yeast.Experience with many microbiology, genetic, cell biology, and biochemistry laboratory techniques: Subcloning techniques, yeast genetics, PCR/primer design, SDS-PAGE, Western Blotting, Co-immunoprecipitation, Protein engineering, affinity protein purification, fluorescence micrsocopy, lipid biochemistry, and organelle separation & purification.Member of Dr. Rutilio Fratti's lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Show less

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Aug 2014 - May 2020

  Worked as a teaching assistant and a lecturer/coordinator for multiple courses in the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology. As a teaching assistant I led discussion-based portions of biochemistry lecture courses. As a lecturer and coordinator for a biochemistry lab course I developed a syllabus, prepared and delivered lecture material, oversaw all labs, and managed TA's and lab preparatory staff