Amanda Lowery Email & Phone Number

Creative, thorough scientist. Self-motivated to identify and investigate a problem, troubleshoot, and determine a plan of action. Dedicated life-long learner.Accomplished written and oral communication skills. Responsive to audience understanding and instructional feedback.Excels both independently and in teams. Effectively manages time and projects, sets priorities, meets deadlines, and supervises others.Plans and conducts scientifically sound experiments, Analyzes complex data sets, Performs engineering analysis, Understands structure/function relationships in materials, Writes grants, internal reports, and manuscripts for publications, Provides formal and informal mentoring.My career goals are to conduct research that is goal oriented and progresses towards solutions to improve lives. This research may be in designing clinical diagnostics/therapies or in development of tools for basic researchers. Ideally, I will lead a small research group and mentor new scientists. I would like to be in a high energy environment where people are enthusiastic about the research they are conducting. I want to continue to learn new techniques and apply new knowledge to solve problems.Specialties: Technically skilled in surface functionalization of nanoparticles, non-viral transfections, flow cytometry, fluorescence microscopy, tissue culture, animal handling/care, tissue processing/histology, understanding laser tissue interactions and material characterization techniques, including UV-Vis spectrometry, Dynamic light scattering, and and Flourospectrometry.