Work:
Washington University in Saint Louis School of Medicine Jul 2010 to 2000
Research Technician II
Saint Louis University, Biology Department - St. Louis, MO May 2009 to Jun 2010
Research Assistant
Saint Louis University, Department of Nephrology - St. Louis, MO Oct 2006 to Aug 2009
Research Assistant
Education:
Saint Louis University - St. Louis, MO 2006 to 2010
Bachelor of Science in Biology
Skills:
Model Organisms: Arabidopsis thaliana, Drosophila melanogaster, Mus musculus Molecular Genetics and Molecular Biology: Growing and maintaining Arabidopsis thaliana plants in mass, bulk segregate analysis, map based and fine mapping, calculating recombination frequencies, cloning, designing primers, gel electrophoresis, genotyping mice, Western blotting, immunohistochemistry, various media, solution, and plate preparation Microbiology: Aseptic techniques, transformations, bacterial culture in liquid media and on solid agar plates Tissue Culture and Mouse Techniques: Cell line maintenance, aseptic cell culture techniques, transfections, media preparation, virus preparation and infection, E13.5 dorsal root ganglia dissections, embryonic dorsal root ganglia spot cultures Drosophila Techniques: Larval dissections, adult brain dissections, fly stock maintenance, fly food production Microscopy: Fluorescence microscopy, confocal microscopy, bright-field microscopy Software Proficiency: ImageJ, Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Photoshop, Quartzy