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San Diego County, California, United States

Principal Investigator / Deputy Program ManagerDefine and drive innovation with client goals in mind.Synthetic biology, pathogen surveillance, genomics, bioinformatics, sequencing at the edge, novel foods thorough bioengineering and biomanufacturing.

San Diego County, California, United States

Chief Science Officer and Founder at New Tides Distillery. The only distillery offsetting 100% of the freshwater used in the distillation process by using sustainably sourced Pacific Ocean water.

Everything Duckweed! scRNA-seq, population structure analysis, T2T genome assembly, methylation analysis.Harnessing Plants Initiative member to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide levels through plant genome engineering for recalcitrant carbon compound production.

La Jolla, CA

• Successfully refunded with a leadership role in managing and meeting client goals (IARPA; ~15M$/18mo) and milestones in a highly collaborative and interdisciplinary project to develop computational tools for the.
• Bioinformatics (bash and Python scripting) analysis of NGS using long-read Oxford Nanopore sequencing and Illumina sequencing for de novo genome assembly and analysis of repeat-rich genomes, bacterial strain.
• Develop tissue culture and transformation pipelines for several plant species of interest. Binary vector design and gene-of-interest cloning to optimize transgene expression and delivery for protein expression in.

East Lansing

• Designed, executed and interpreted independent experiments leading to published articles in cyanobacterial engineering, photosynthetic characterization and bioproduction. This involved analysis of large spectroscopic.
• Contributed and presented data and collaborated with faculty, graduate students and the Department of Energy(DOE) leading to successful 2.5M DOE continuation funding.
• Managed and guided first year graduate students resulting in authorship as well as scheduled and trained a team of five undergraduate students for daily lab duties and experimental design in biochemistry and blue-green.
• Teaching assistant of at least 150 undergraduate students yielding excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Cloned over 200 constructs from 2.5kB to 300kB by In-Fusion, Cre-Lox, Gateway or digestion/ligation for the manipulation of proprietary gene stacking technology contributing to intellectual property development.
• Contributed to key milestone completion with Syngenta, Inc. leading to continuation funding and partnership development for sugarcane transformation technologies.
• Designed, optimized and constructed all genetic elements for a 7 million-dollar ARPA-E grant leading to continuation funding for development of isoprenoid based biofuels.
• Performed immunofluorescent staining and FISH leading to a publication.
• Skills in PCR, qPCR RNA gene expression analysis and ChIP-seq with next-generation sequencing technologies (Illumina/454) for novel centromeric DNA element discovery.

• Performed biolistic sugarcane transformation/culture techniques and assay development leading to continuation funding agreements with partner companies.
• Management, training and guidance for all part-time employees in the laboratory.
• Oversee and maintain all laboratory safety related materials.

• Demonstrated initiative in implementing SOP’s and executing optimization experiments to increase transformation efficiency with 9 team members including postdocs and technicians in a GLP environment.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Cell/Cellular And Molecular Biology

Molecular Biology

Chromosome Characterization

Bachelors Degree, Biology