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Seattle, WA, US

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Worked with a small team of technologists to execute time-sensitive clinical cytogenetic tests.
• Responsible for routine processing, setup, maintenance, harvest, and cryogenic storage of tissue culture specimens.
• Setup and maintained cell cultures from original specimens including chorionic villi, product of conception, amniotic fluid, umbilical cord, skin, muscle, lymphoblast, bone marrow, and peripheral blood.
• Dropped, stained, and hybridized slides for G-banding and FISH analysis.
• Generated homebrew FISH probes from BAC clones for confirmation of microarray results.
• Karyotyped hundreds of cells, gaining a high proficiency for visual chromosome identification and detection of small aberrations.

Alpharetta, GA, US

• Experience in a high volume laboratory with cancer-specific cytogenetic workflows and short turnaround-times.
• Trained in bone marrow setup and harvest, and solid tumor tissue culture.
• Complex ≤350 band level karyotyping.
• Performed break-apart/fusion FISH probe hybridization and analysis on standard and formalin-fixed tissues.

• Hands-on training with microscopy-based and array-based cytogenetic techniques.
• Performed biweekly peripheral blood setup, harvest, and slide dropping.
• Responsible for routine laboratory maintenance.
• Trained in peripheral blood, amnio, and CVS karyotyping.
• Daily involvement with implementation of standard clinical and cytogenetic-specific SOPs.
• Experience with DNA isolation, PCR, and DNA sequencing and analysis (NGS, Sanger, Pyro, and Methylation)

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Biotechnology

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science