C. Armanda Roco, Phd Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, United States

Currently leading a team on improvements to our FDA approved ClonoSEQ assay, which is a measurable residual disease (MRD) test that detects, quantifies, and assesses the small number of cancer cells that may remain in a patient’s body during and after treatment. This very sensitive assay allows physicians to test disease burden over time to pivot therapy.

Project management for personalized Tcell therapeutic assay development collaborating with molecular, cellular & drug discovery wet-lab scientists, computational data scientists, software engineers, automation engineers, quality control, supply chain, to name a few. I have experience in team management from directing experimental projects to quality risk.

Seattle, Washington

Scientist in the Research & Development department where I lead a team working on optimizing T-cell & B-cell assays with our immunosequencing technology to harness the power of the human immune system.

Corvallis, Oregon Area

I worked on a collaborative project spanning the departments of Microbiology and Crop & Soil science, along with Oak Ridge National Lab. The overarching goal of the project was to track the life cycle of nitrogen turnover in terrestrial environments. To tackle this question the goal was to track heavy labeled N in gaseous form, microbial biomass, plant.

Ithaca, New York Area

I was a Postdoc in the lab of Dr. Todd Walter in Biological & Environmental Engineering exploring soil microbial indicators (i.e gene distribution) of greenhouse gas emissions & environmental factors in agricultural soils.

Ithaca, New York Area

PhD Title: Characterization Of Soil Denitrifier Diversity: From Isolate Physiology To Community MetagenomicsMy PhD thesis focused on soil bacterial diversity in regards to denitrification (the removal of reactive nitrate to un-reactive nitrogen gas) and how different bacterial communities are connected to ecosystem functioning and affected by variable.

Cornell University

2015 Co-Instructor: Tools for studying microbes involved in greenhouse gas cycling (CEE 6055; Graduate level class)2015 Instructor: Microbiology Lab (BioMI 2911)2014;2009-2010 TA: Microbiology Lecture (BioMI 2900) & Microbiology Lab (BioMI 2910); Public Health Microbiology (BioMI 2500)2009-2015: Leader of Small Group discussions for Microbiology lecture.

Department Of Biology

Title: Comparison of Microsatellite Genetic Diversity between Native European and Invasive North American Populations of Silene latifoliaThe project focused on the genealogical history of the weedy plant Silene latifolia using microsatellite nuclear DNA for population genetic comparison.

Biomedical Engineering Department

Topic: Measurement and simulation of the microtubule-based motor movement in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii flagella and understanding of the molecular mechanisms by which motor cells move.

Australian Institute Of Biotechnology And Nanotechnology

Topic: Targeted drug delivery and imaging using nanostructures

Microbiology & Food Science

Topic: Investigated a new technique for improving imaging of quantum dots in vivo as compared with existing quantum dots methods and investigated the production of protein Renilla reniformis luciferase.

Los Alamos, NM

Title: Controlled Assembly and Mobility of Lipid Bilayers using Biotin-streptavadin Conjugation to create Multilamellar Assemblies. Worked under Dr. Gabe Montaño & Dr. Andrew Dattelbaum.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Microbiology

Activities and Societies: 1) Cornell Cross-Scale Biogeochemistry & Climate IGERT (website: http://www.geo.cornell.edu/biogeo/index.shtml).

Education record

Six month PhD project exploring denitrifier bacterial communities and ecosystem function with collaborators Dr. Peter Dörsch, Dr. Åsa.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Biology And Environmental Science

Activities and Societies: Outdoors Club, International Studies Office Study Abroad Peer Advisor, Undergraduate Research Network

Education record

Spring 2008 Student Exchange