Experience

New Culture

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

• Biology Research Associate

  • Jul 2022 - Present

  Plan and carry out experiments in strain engineering and screening for producing recombinant proteins to make cow cheese without the cow! Plan and carry out experiments in strain engineering and screening for producing recombinant proteins to make cow cheese without the cow!



University of Chicago

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Resident Assistant

  • Sep 2021 - Jun 2022

  Built community, assisted students in crisis, offered a support system for studentsPlanned and led community activities

• Genetics Teacher's Assistant

  • Sep 2021 - Feb 2022

  Instructed a laboratory section of 22 undergraduates for Fundamentals of Genetics Explained, demonstrated, and assisted with forward and reverse mutagenesis screens in yeast using UV and CRISPR respectively, PCRs, gel electrophoresis, restriction digests, golden gate assemblies, and ligations throughout a PTC Taste Receptor lab, and 5 crosses of drosophila to allow eye-targeted transposon-based mis-expressions



Kronforst Lab at the University of Chicago

• Chicago, IL

• Biologist

  • Jun 2021 - Jun 2022

  Researched the genetic basis of sexually dimorphic mimicry in Papilio lowii butterflies Gathered data on the mimicry gene doublesex by doing dissections for RNA extraction to be used in qPCR and RNAseq and performing antibody staining and confocal imaging of developing wings Researched the genetic basis of sexually dimorphic mimicry in Papilio lowii butterflies Gathered data on the mimicry gene doublesex by doing dissections for RNA extraction to be used in qPCR and RNAseq and performing antibody staining and confocal imaging of developing wings



Marine Biological Laboratory

• United States
• Research Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Student Researcher

  • Mar 2021 - Jun 2021

  Performed CRISPR on zebrafish embryos to observe the function of key developmental genes such as smo, Investigated MAP Kinase signaling in zebrafish spinal cord regeneration through spinal surgery and recovery in ERK and JNK inhibitors Studied mechanism superblack coloring of Trogonoptera brookiana and Eunica alcmena using SEM to observe scale nanostructures Researched relationship between nutrient availability and phytoplankton presence throughout a 10 day research cruise in the Atlantic using chlorophyll purification and measurement of fluorescence Show less



California Academy of Sciences

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Genetics Research Assistant

  • Jun 2020 - Oct 2020

  Analyzed and extracted phototransduction genomic data of different frog species to investigate the molecular evolution of such genes Worked in MEGA and HyPHy, and used PAML to hypothesize phylogenetic relationships of these frog species Analyzed and extracted phototransduction genomic data of different frog species to investigate the molecular evolution of such genes Worked in MEGA and HyPHy, and used PAML to hypothesize phylogenetic relationships of these frog species



Mendoza Lab at the University of Chicago

• Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Protein Engineering Student Researcher

  • Jan 2019 - Jul 2020

  Conducted protein engineering research for cancer therapy Performed research techniques such as gene cloning, design and production of useful plasmids, synthesizing and purifying designed proteins, and protein analysis to generate and investigate engineered proteins Conducted protein engineering research for cancer therapy Performed research techniques such as gene cloning, design and production of useful plasmids, synthesizing and purifying designed proteins, and protein analysis to generate and investigate engineered proteins



University of California, Santa Cruz

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Jun 2017 - Aug 2017

  Cloned, isolated, and purified the DNA encoding the TEN domain of the enzyme Telomerase in order to provide samples of this domain for further structure/ function study Cloned, isolated, and purified the DNA encoding the TEN domain of the enzyme Telomerase in order to provide samples of this domain for further structure/ function study