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San Francisco, California, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

• Measuring & understanding B cell mediated antibody protection using computational, transcriptomic and proteomic techniques
• Customizing and streamlining a BCR repertoire pipeline to analyze NGS antibody data.
• Using pipeline to analyze and visualize antigen-specific and convergent monoclonal antibodies.
• Developing and validating ELISA-Arrays using a piezoelectric-based protein array printer for quantitative screens of serum, plasma, or monoclonal antibodies onto vaccines, viruses, and recombinant viral proteins.
• Creating an R Shiny interactive tool to visualize & explore antibody repertoires and phylogenies.
• Using wet-laboratory techniques for NGS sample prep (DNA/RNA extraction, cDNA synthesis, primer design, PCR).

Greater New York City Area

• Using Next-generation sequencing to study the diversity of human antibodies that broadly neutralize HIV-1
• Creating a computational pipeline to characterize both healthy human and rhesus macaque antibody sequences from raw next-generation sequencing (Illumina MiSeq).
• Continued streamlining of pipeline to characterize HIV-infected human and rhesus macaque antibody sequences.
• Using wet-laboratory techniques to prepare human and rhesus samples for sequencing (DNA/RNA extraction, cDNA synthesis, primer design, real time PCR).

• Evolutionary Ecology and Biogeography of Tropical Hosts and Pathogens
• Used computational methods to identify regions of species diversity and help recommend preservation areas.
• Used R programming language as above as well as GIS tools: ESRI ArcGIS, ArcGIS Spatial Analyst, ArcEditor and ArcGIS SDE.
• Species distribution modeling programs used: Maxent, Openmodeller, ENMTools, GARP.
• Presented research at national and international conferences.
• First author or co-author on three peer-reviewed publications.

Ph.D, Biology

Dissertation - Evolution of high-latitude mammals: phylogeography and historical demography of arctic hares (Lepus spp.) and shrews of the.

B.S, Zoology

Cum Laude Minor Russian Literature

Biology

Graduate Study