Experience

Sweet Home Senior High School

• United States
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Science Teacher

  • Aug 2021 - Present



CATHOLIC ACADEMY OF NIAGARA FALLS

• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Middle School Teacher

  • Oct 2018 - Jun 2021



University at Buffalo's NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences (CBLS)

• Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

• Graduate Student Researcher

  • Aug 2012 - Aug 2018

  Currently finishing up my graduate studies at the University at Buffalo in the lab of Dr. Marc Halfon. We use the lowly fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster to better understand gene regulation as it relates to development. My thesis work focuses on the RAS/MAPK signaling pathway that causes founder cells to be specified from naive myoblasts and how this process differs between muscle types. Currently finishing up my graduate studies at the University at Buffalo in the lab of Dr. Marc Halfon. We use the lowly fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster to better understand gene regulation as it relates to development. My thesis work focuses on the RAS/MAPK signaling pathway that causes founder cells to be specified from naive myoblasts and how this process differs between muscle types.



58th Annual Drosophila Research Conference

• Greater San Diego Area

• Opposite Roles for RTK Signaling in Muscle Founder Cell Specification in Somatic Versus Visceral

  • Apr 2017 - Apr 2017

  Attended and presented my unpublished data at the annual fly meeting in California Attended and presented my unpublished data at the annual fly meeting in California



Society for Developmental Biologists 75th Annual Meeting

• Boston MA

• Opposite Roles for RTK Signaling in Muscle Founder Cell Specification in Somatic Versus Visceral

  • Aug 2016 - Aug 2016

  Attended and presented my unpublished data at the Society for Developmental Biology meeting in Boston Attended and presented my unpublished data at the Society for Developmental Biology meeting in Boston



University at Buffalo

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• TA

  • Sep 2014 - Dec 2014

  TA for BCH 403 Biochemical Principles for the Fall 2014 semester TA for BCH 403 Biochemical Principles for the Fall 2014 semester



University at Buffalo

• Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

• GSA Senator

  • 2013 - 2013

  Represented the Biochemistry Department for a semester as a Senator for the UB graduate Student Association. Oversaw procedure and voted on allocation of funding to various clubs/events/departments. Represented the Biochemistry Department for a semester as a Senator for the UB graduate Student Association. Oversaw procedure and voted on allocation of funding to various clubs/events/departments.



Towne Cleaners

• Getzville New York

• Customer Service Representative

  • Jun 2010 - Aug 2012