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Alexandria, Virginia, United States

Alexandria, Virginia

National Science Foundation

Development of course map, course materials, student facing text, and assessments for a distance learning course.

Developed instructional materials, created and edited test bank questions, and offered feedback on the online platform for a General Biology course.

Investigating cell signalling cross-talk that leads to tumorigenesis

Investigating signaling pathways involved in Giardia lamblia differentiation.

Develop and teach Introduction Biology classroom courses. Facilitate laboratory and online courses.

• Designed and implemented research to investigate signaling pathways involved in the cell cycle and life cycle of the intestinal protozoan parasite, Giardia lamblia. Mentored and trained exchange students as they.
• Trained senior-level project scientists in basic bioinformatics and protein expression.
• Controlled cost of experiments to advance progress of research, despite budgetary restraints.
• Enabled publication of manuscript by designing series of experiments to address issues provided in comments by significant reviewers within tight 3-month deadline.
• Completed extensive comparative genomic analysis, producing necessary data for restructured manuscript.
• Awarded position on Gastroenterology Training Grant, University of California - San Diego based on submission of supplementary NIH application. Show less

• Conducted independent research to identify and characterize novel DNA elements, and cognate binding proteins involved in protein gene expression in the sexually transmitted protozoan parasite Trichomonas vaginalis..
• Awarded a position on the NIH-sponsored microbial pathogenesis training grant and successfully competed for… Show more Conducted independent research to identify and characterize novel DNA elements, and cognate binding.
• Awarded a position on the NIH-sponsored microbial pathogenesis training grant and successfully competed for extramural funding through NIH-sponsored Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Fellowship.
• Published 2 first-author and 1 second-author papers in peer reviewed journals.
• Contributed gene expression analysis to publication of the Trichomonas vaginalis genome paper.
• Recruited minority graduate students as representatives of UCLA ACCESS program (life science graduate studies umbrella program). Attended events, such as Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students.

Phd, Microbiology, Immunology And Molecular Genetics

Biochemistry