Amanda Veri, Phd Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Oversee the development and execution of training programs, opportunities, and initiatives to support the ~1300 students and postdoctoral researchers at UHN.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• I have helped organize and have been involved in various events in Toronto to share science with the public.These include:
• March 2021 - CBC Kids News - "Is a zombie apocalypse coming?"
• October 2020 - RCIScience Instagram Takeover and speaker at their Science of Scary event.
• May 2020 - Founded a Meet a Scientist program which connected elementary and high school teachers with scientists for virtual classroom sessions. In a month we had engaging sessions with over 40 classrooms!
• June 2020 - Interviewed for the York Catholic District School Board Career Speaker Series
• May 2020 - Speaker for online event "Don't Pan(dem)ic! The Science Behind the Board Game" by RCIScience

Toronto, Canada Area

• As a research associate, I helped to manage ongoing research projects and collaborations in the lab. I was actively responsible for mentoring four graduate students, as well as numerous undergraduate students, and met.
• I managed a team project with the goal of generating depletion mutants for every C. albicans gene in the genome. In addition to helping to generate a functional pipeline for creating mutants, I was involved in.

Toronto, Canada Area

• I helped to launch a series of monthly career development workshops for the Molecular Genetics department that aim to educate trainees about career possibilities and provide opportunities for networking.
• I have executed over ten workshops ranging in topics from careers in academia, industry, business, and government, that were attended by 50-200 trainees each. I have also played an advisory role, helping other students.
• I recruited more than thirty career professionals as panelists, utilizing and expanding my network and fostering relationships with alumni in varied careers.
• Our team was successful in securing funding from the Genetics Society of America's Trainee-Organized Symposia program in order to improve and expand the workshops.
• I also assist the Molecular Genetics Department in the organization of other career development initiatives, including four Alumni Career Development Symposia.

Toronto, Canada Area

• I worked under the supervision of Dr. Leah Cowen to study the mechanisms of fungal pathogenesis and drug resistance of the opportunistic fungal pathogen, Candida albicans.
• My research resulted in two first author research publications and two first author reviews. I have also had the pleasure to work collaboratively with other colleagues on their projects, which has resulted in four.
• I have crafted grant applications that were successful in securing over $170,000 of research funding.
• I utilized time management and multi-tasking skills to train and mentor three undergraduate summer students and two rotation students while still continuing to advance my research forward.
• I have communicated my research through oral and poster presentations at four international and many local conferences.

• I was a teaching assistant for an online Introduction to Medical Microbiology course (MGY277), three times that the course was run.
• I developed course content, implemented effective assessments, and facilitated discussion and answered students' questions on the discussion board.

• I conducted research on the protein interactions of phosphatases and their involvement in the mitotic cell cycle in the lab of Dr. Anne-Claude Gingras.
• I performed affinity-purification and mass spectrometry (AP-MS) on human phosphatases to identify novel substrates, in order to help elucidate their function.
• I demonstrated oral and written communication skills by presenting research in two Institute poster presentations.
• I acquired skills include tissue culture techniques, cloning, transfections, immunoprecipitations and mass spectrometry.

Dr. Lori Burrows' Lab, Biochemistry, Mcmaster

• I completed a 9 unit biochemistry senior thesis under the supervision of Dr. Lori Burrows.
• I independently worked to characterize the mechanism of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm stimulation by a kinase inhibitor.
• I acquired technical skills include aseptic technique, biofilm assays, extracting nucleotides for quantification with mass spectrometry and running Western blots to test for changes in phosphorylation levels of proteins

• Independently operated and maintained a Quattro Ultima triple quadrupole electrospray mass spectrometer.
• Prepared and analyzed external and internal customers’ samples using single and tandem mass spectrometry.
• Successfully optimized and developed HPLC methods to effectively separate compounds for detection with mass spectrometry and purification

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Molecular Genetics

Activities and Societies: VP Internal (2015-Present), Event Coordinator (2014-2015) and Social Rep (2012-2013) for the Molecular Genetics.

Honours Bachelor Of Science, Biochemistry Co-Op With Biomedical Sciences Specialization

Activities and Societies: Co-president of the Molecular Biology Society, Communications Officer for Inquire Newspaper Courses of.

Education record