Providing essential technical support, expertise, and resources to the research community in the UAB and beyond.

Generation of different CAR-NK in order to find the best candidate for future cancer immunoterapies. Improvement of Natural Killer (NK) cells isolation and expansion methods in order to produce enough infusion material and to allow NK activation required to transduce with lentiviruses. Optimization of the methodology to infect the expanded NK cells with the lentivirus carrying the CAR sequence, conferring the capacity to specifically kill target cells

The Histology & Light Microscopy core provides services to researchers both at Gladstone Institutes and beyond. Applying basic technical knowledge of the principles, concepts and methods of biomedical research to perform various analyses and supporting the investigation of scientific problems.
• Responsible of the operation and maintenance of scientific equipment such as tissue processors, microtomes, slide stainers, cryostats and microscopes.• Performing research techniques and procedures such as tissue grossing, processing, embedding, cutting, routine and special staining plus slide mounting and quality control.• Assisting in the development of new core procedures and experimental protocols for researchers.• Performing Immunohistochemistry.• Providing training on a variety of systems for bright field and fluorescence imaging. Performing automated image analysis using tools such as ImageJ .• Ensure lab cleanliness and safety.• Maintain stocks and reorder as necessary.• Responsible for updating core inventories and electronic records.• Responding to user queries, scheduling and performing user equipment training and consulting with users on experimental design.• Managing iLab requests.

My role in this unique Spanish infusion School has been to deliver daily lessons in Spanish based in the Communicative Teaching Methodology. Also I have been working in tandem with the 4th grade, Kinder and second grade Lead teachers in supporting the educational and social/emotional work with students in the classroom.

Developing a highly engaging science curriculum and activities for 1st to 4th graders. Working effectively and collaboratively with our team to integrate Spanish language and Science.Creating supply lists to accompany curriculum; managing materials budget.Coordinating curriculum testing (with kids) to validate projects and course design.

Responsible for assisting:- in the interpretation of field trip and Family Night programs for 4th-5th grade Spanish speaking students and their families. - in the translation of materials on an “as needed” basis such as lessons developed for Family Nights, lab/classroom programs, and on line lessons. Understanding of how to communicate in a bilingual setting with students of varying ages and backgrounds.- education staff in teaching programs in the Academy’s labs and classrooms,with Spanish interpretation on an “as needed” basis.

Study the mechanisms of the cell death associated to the PtdCho synthesis in cell lines CHOK1 and MT58.

Developing Standard Operation Processes and general management of the R & D Lab.

Study of Kinasa protein CK2 in BY-2 tobacco cells

Quality Control and R&D.