Experience

IDEAYA Biosciences
• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Senior Research Associate

  • Aug 2023 - Present


General Proximity

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting

• Research Associate II

  • Feb 2023 - Aug 2023

  • Deconvoluted the mechanism of action of our bifunctional molecules by using RNAi and confirming knockdown of targeted proteins by Western Blot.• Uncovered the way in which our chemical matter was inhibiting cellular growth of cancer cells by using live cellular imaging (CellCyteX) and image cytometry (Celígo)• Ran qRT-PCR experiments to confirm that our bifunctional molecules were inducing unique pathway genes when compared to their constitutive ligands.

• Research Associate

  • Jul 2022 - Jan 2023

  • Worked with automatic microplate reagent dispensers and digital dispensers such as Thermofisher’s Multidrop Combi and Tecan’s D300e.• Screened over 500 different compounds using a variety of phenotypic assays in both 96 and 384-well formats.• Maintained several different cell lines in parallel for use in cellular based assays.



University of California, Davis

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Student at Brummer Lab

  • May 2020 - Jul 2022

  • Collected data on over 7000 plants over a period of three years, which combined with DNA samples extracted from those plants, did the library preparation for NGS, and used that sequencing data to run a genome wide association study in order to identify the target loci involved with daylength insensitivity.

• Student Laboratory Assistant at Brummer Lab

  • Sep 2019 - May 2020

  • Assisting in various projects involving genotyping and sampling of spinach and hemp and assisting in a variety of greenhouse tasks.

• Student Laboratory Assistant at Putnam Lab

  • Jun 2019 - Jan 2020

  • Worked on field sampling of forage crops in addition to sample processing for NIR analysis. Assisted in the growth and harvest of a collaborative hemp project with UC Davis and Syngenta.

• Student Laboratory Assistant at Lundy Lab

  • Oct 2018 - Jun 2019

  • Worked on field sampling plant and soil environments during the growing season of small grains in addition to the processing of these plant and soil samples for further analysis.