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• Overall Project Hypothesis: Dantrolene provides neuroprotection in Alzheimer's disease cells and animal models.
• Cell Culture: Culture cell line, ReNcells, iPSCs from Alzheimer patients, and Neuroblastoma cells, change respective medium, subculturing and freezing cells.
• Designed experiments to test dantrolene efficacy between various toxicity factors related to Alzheimer’s Disease, for instance, glutamate, amyloid beta protein and APOE4. Also, to observe dantrolene and lithium.
• Laboratory Assays: MTT assay for cell viability and Agilent Seahorse XF ATP Real-Time rate assay to measure oxygen consumption. Genotyping mouse tails.
• Analyzed raw data using GraphPad Prism, Microsoft Excel, and Seahorse Analytics
• Present to receive feedback that was used in future experiments.

Davis, California, United States

• Enlisted and organized classrooms in the Law School which lead to easy transitions between different courses at the school
• Tailored events by setting them up and cleaning them which allowed the hosts of the event to focus on their guests
• Facilitated deliveries to other departments which decrease the workforce and time for the Law School staff
• Served other departments of the Law School and other neighboring facilities with assistance which allowed staff to focus on their duties

Sacramento, California, United States

• Created and enhanced customers transactions by acknowledging their orders which not only decrease the line of waiting patrons but also increase the probabilities of returning customers
• Consulted customers’ doubts of ice cream flavors by providing samples and top seller items to decrease the return rate
• Resolved client’s issues with our product or service by understanding the issue and finding the best solution to obtain trust between the company and its patrons

Sacramento County, California, United States

• Coordinated and improved the pre-medicine club by holding a bi-weekly meetings with club members to discuss events and opportunities which develop a core pre-medicine community at Sacramento City College
• Achieved the first official club event which presented a physician/dean from the School of Medicine of UC Davis to discuss mental health issues in the medical field which lead to more members joining the club

• Overall Project: The Human Screenome project
• Analyzed the consequences and correlation of digital media usage on adolescents and young adults.
• Generated and organized participants’ screenshots in different categories for the human Screenome, mapping of fragmented digital lives
• Proficient in Python used to gather participants' screenshots in the database.
• Systematic review of the consequences of digital media on adolescents and young adults.
• Presentations: Poser presentation to the Stanford community on the consequences, and correlation of digital media, in both The Human Screenome project and systematic review

Sacramento, California Area

• Coordinated mindfulness activities such as meditation and journaling to decrease academic stress of the cohort, pre-med students, in the premedical journey
• Mentored and counseled students with any academic or personal concerns to create a robust relationship and improve their experience at Prep Medico, the summer program
• Consulted and evaluated the cohort and upcoming activities with the Prep Medico team every week to tailor the students, guests, and staff members needs which created the trust and a better experience for everyone at.

Sacramento, California Area

• Served customers with their groceries, i.e., bag and help of their groceries to their car which increase the return rates of customers
• Maintained a clean store and parking lot which increase the customer experience
• Executed bakery order, i.e., packing baked goods, complete custom order which increased customer acquisition (customer can buy more than groceries)
• Arranged and inspected the garden center, i.e., remove dead plants, received new plants which as well increased customer acquisition (customer can buy more than groceries)

Sacramento, California Area

• Increased my network of medical professionals, physicians, physicians’ assistants, nurses, medical students, and community leaders, which lead to today’s mentors that assist my journey in medicine
• Consulted and served the migrant farmworkers community in Napa, CA which introduced new clinical care skills
• Interviewed and reviewed health care professionals in their line of work which gave insight into different fields of medicine that is useful when choosing a field of medicine

Sacramento, California Area

An outstanding summer program for high school juniors and seniors to learned about issues in our communities and how to network with city officials. Interned in different departments at Sacramento County i.e. Sacramento Regional Transit, Sacramento Districts offices, Parks and Recreations, etc.

Bachelor'S Degree, Neurobiology, Physiology, And Behavior

Biology, General