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- Managed weekly lab operations, safety, and procedures for students enrolled in Organic Chemistry II Lab and Medicinal/Computational Chemistry Lab- Guided students through experiments during lab and held weekly office hours to answer student questions

- Research Project: Design and Synthesis of Antibacterial Compounds to Avoid Efflux-Mediated Resistance in Gram-negative Bacteria - Synthesized, isolated, and confirmed structural purity of a series of promising antibacterial compounds- Visualized docking scores and binding interactions between the designed compounds and the LpxC active site through UCSF Chimera and AutoDock Vina- Presented independent research at Arkansas Idea Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) 2021, Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (SERMACS) 2021, Gamma Sigma 49th Epsilon Biennial Convention, American Chemical Society (ACS) Spring 2023- Technical and wet-lab skills: thin-layer chromatography; liquid-liquid extraction; column chromatography; rotary evaporation; running 1H, 13C, and 2D NMRs; IR spectroscopy; distillation; crystallization; filtration; HPLC; H-Cube; analyzing NMR spectra with MNOVA; proficient use of UCSF Chimera, AutoDock Vina, ChemDraw, SciFinder, Protein Data Bank

- Worked remotely as a member of the Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cell Therapy- Researched negative T cell regulators to targeted in order to improve CAR T cell therapy- Participated in Summer Plus Student Training in Academic Research (START) program with 2-3 synchronous meetings each week during the summer- Mastered START program laboratory techniques remotely: immunoblotting; immunoprecipitation; ELISAs; immunohistochemistry; fluorescent protein technologies; flow cytometry; cloning and PCF; CRISPR-Cas9; gene expression technology; Cre-lox systems; and animal models of infectious disease