Experience

McGill University

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Post Doctoral Fellow

  • May 2012 - Present

  I am currently working as a post doctoral fellow, looking at the mechanisms of mannolsyl transferases and their function in our immune response to fungal infections. I am currently working as a post doctoral fellow, looking at the mechanisms of mannolsyl transferases and their function in our immune response to fungal infections.



University of Alberta

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Student

  • Sep 2005 - Apr 2012

  My Ph.D. focussed on the structural biology of DNA repair in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Alberta

• Lecturer

  • Jan 2011 - May 2011

  During the winter semester of 2011 at the Unviersity of Alberta, I tought a lecture in two different courses in the Department of Biochemistry.Bioch 320 (Protein Structure and Function) - lecture focused on the current methods of protein purification, and their practical applications.Biochm 330 (Nucleic acids and Molecular Biology) - lecture focused on the use of restriction enzymes and selection vectors in cloning, as well as an introduction to DNA sequencing.

• Tutor

  • Sep 2005 - May 2011

  I tutored several undergraduate students enrolled in various programs at the University of Alberta. All students were successful, attaining their desired grades. Students were tutored in Biochemistry, including Bioch 200 (Introductory Biochemistry), Bioch 320 (Protein Structure and Function) and Bioch 330 (Nucleic acids and Molecular Biology).

• Summer Student

  • May 2005 - Sep 2005

  As a summer student, I worked under a graduate student, helping to complete basic tasks important for his project regarding the bacterial conjugation repressor, FinO.



MacEwan University

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Student Lab Techinician

  • Sep 2002 - May 2003

  As a student lab technician, I performed basic laboratory maintinence and helped with prepartion of the undergraduate laboratory component. As a student lab technician, I performed basic laboratory maintinence and helped with prepartion of the undergraduate laboratory component.