Eric Xia Email & Phone Number

Evanston, IL, US

Evanston, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Completed project on chronic Salmonella infection as a risk for colon cancer
• Xia, E.T., Zha, L., & Sun, J.. (2019, November 22). Salmonella T3SS Protein AvrA Promotes Chronic Infection through MDM2. [OralPresentation]. Marian Research Day 2019/Indianapolis, IN, USA
• Xia, E.T. & Ogbu, D & Sun, J. (2020, Jul). Gut instincts: Vitamin D/Vitamin D Receptor and Microbiome in Neurodevelopment Disorders.. Royal Society, 10(7), 1-11

Chicago, IL

• Assist in bench experiments
• Maintain 220+ cages across 24 genetic lines of mice. Database management, efficient breeding within protocol guidelines.
• Animal Surgery – Skilled in mouse hepatocyte and myocyte isolation, tissue collection, other dissections.

Greater Chicago Area

• SAT Instructor with several full courses experience. Consistent feedback with parents throughout course and in following months before test day.
• Partner with JP Morgan Chase to deliver Early Edge instruction to underprivileged children in Chicago. Larger class sizes, reinforcing principles learned at school.

Naperville

• Assist pharmacist in prescription intake, processing, filling, and sale. Observe law for HIPAA, medicine, and inventory
• Communicate with patients, physician offices, and insurance companies to offer problem resolution. Offer alternatives, lower cost, follow through. Strive for patient wellbeing. Patient population from wealthy to.
• Compassion in patient interactions translates to improved communication, compliance, and reporting.

Chicago, IL

• Culture Bacteria from mouse and patient stool samples in multiple media/agars for identification and use in causative experiments. Dose response assay bacteria vs protein of interest for proliferation vs death. qPCR.
• Design plasmid transformation, expression, and purification experiments. Work independently on agreed upon projects.
• Design and utilize FISH probe specific for Lactobacillus in mouse ileal tissue samples.
• Analyze data in Excel and Prism. Experience with pivot tables, good visual formatting, and generating graphs.
• Collaborate with outside labs from UChicago and from other Universities to progress projects.
• Shadow attending Dr. Ira Hanan and Dr. Yunwei Wang on GI rounds in Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine. (5h).

Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Give preliminary consultation and assistance to patients, mostly English speaking patients. Direct them to visit and see appropriate department and doctor.

• Assist Dr. Blaschek’s microbiology bench research in biofuel production using Clostridium beijerinckii fermentation of biomass generated by college of agriculture.
• Prepare, sample, document, and tear down experiments in 3 New Brunswick Bioflo Fermentors. Perform spectrophotometry and HPLC analysis of products. Label and freeze samples for possible review. Prep incoming shipments.
• Perform transformation and knockout experiments under supervision. DNA and RNA extract with Qiagen prep kits. Restriction digest and PCR. Data entry. Kept lab tidy.

• Work outdoors and in lab to study the response of sweetcorn and edamame crops to weed and pest stress, with and without chemicals.
• Saw multiple, concurrent experiments beginning to end.
• Maintained experimental conditions by weeding, watering, and shading to specification. Collected and entered data on crop, weed, and soil measurables.

Naperville, IL

Aided and proctored exams for 3rd - 8th grade students. Provided 1-on-1 help to students.

Assisted Post-Docs and PhD candidates with standard tasks of biological research. Performed PCR, spread plates, Drosophila data collection and entry, and washing and storage of spores.

Doctor Of Osteopathic Medicine

Activities and Societies: Gold Humanism Honor Society

Master’S Degree, Medical Studies

Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, Psychology

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Molecular And Cellular Biology, And Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Illini Mentor Program, Illini Rowing, National Merit Scholar Semi-FinalistDevoted 500+ hours to community.