• 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.

• 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)