Emma Kovak Email & Phone Number

Berkeley, Ca, Us

I conduct and communicate analysis that aims to enhance understanding and appreciation of the environmental benefits of agricultural biotechnology among journalists, policy makers, and other thought leaders.

• Updated content for supplementary materials to accompany a Majors Biology textbook.• Instructor’s manual, Powerpoint presentation, and 100-question test bank for 16 chapters.• Wrote updated questions for test bank and added educational websites. Tagged questions according to Bloom’s taxonomy. Assigned learning objectives to new and existing text bank questions.

• Writing white paper on gene editing applications.• Wrote narratives for Anti-GMO Advocacy Funding Tracker• Edited and provided feedback on Anti-GMO Advocacy Funding Tracker and Global Gene Editing Regulation Tracker• Developing think tank consortium on gene editing regulation.

• Authored 57 online quizzes for two Majors Biology textbooks.• Correlated and tagged each question with a learning objective.• Authored independently with multiple rounds of collaborative editing.• Scheduled to meet tight deadline.

Berkeley, Ca

• Surveyed, evaluated, and summarized extensive scientific literature.• Planned, executed, and reported multiple simultaneous projects in different organisms.• Trained, mentored, and oversaw three undergraduate researchers.• Maintained and organized laboratory supplies and reagents.• Researched the effects of the maize circadian clock on plant growth, and the role of alternative splicing in the Arabidopsis circadian clock.

Course: Biology 1B at UC Berkeley.• Team-taught one weekly three-hour lab course of 30 students.• Prepared and presented introductory lectures, collaboratively wrote weekly quiz, and guided students through laboratory exercises.• Graded and wrote feedback for laboratory worksheets, reports, notebooks, and quizzes.• Administered exams.• Held weekly office hours.

Course: Biology 1A at UC Berkeley.• Prepared lecture, group discussions, and worksheets for weekly one-hour sections.• Individually led three weekly sections of 30 students each.• Held weekly office hours.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Investigated resistance to salt stress in Camelina sativa. Worked in Sairam Rudrabhatla's lab through the NSF REU program.

Raleigh, North Carolina

Genetic engineering of Camelina sativa to increase potential as a biofuel crop. Worked in Heike Sederoff's lab through the NSF REU program.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Plant Molecular Biology

Activities and Societies: Plant and Microbial Biology Graduate Student Group; Bay Area Scientists in Schools; Communication, Literacy.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Biology, General