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Switzerland 🇨🇭, CH

Switzerland 🇨🇭, CH

• Worked in a cross-functional team doing both assay and engineering experiments to boost ePlex sensitivity by >5x
• Planned and executed experiments to characterize ePlex eSensor technology, and co-authored TSR detailing findings
• Acquired and applied basic electrochemistry knowledge and techniques utilizing Metrohm Autolab Potentiostat and NOVA 2.0 software
• Performed RT-PCR testing utilizing SYBR Green or TaqMan probes, dPCR testing utilizing TaqMan probes
• Established and regularly give a technical training session for new hires to provide an overview of how ePlex works from a scientific and engineering perspective
• Authored SOPs for coordinate-measuring machine, Scienion sciFLEXARRAYER S12 system, open ePlex testing, Metrohm Autolab Potentiostat

Durham, North Carolina, US

• Executed RT-PCR testing and data analysis of patient clinical specimens
• Made and qualified in-house reagent lot controls and master mix’s for RT-PCR assays
• Trained other lab members in RT-PCR and managed PCR inventory
• Assisted Staff Scientist with 3 different ELISA and Luminex assay validations
• Worked with R&D team members to analyze, process, and report data from assay qualifications and validations
• Performed VRNT assay utilizing BioStak 3WR instrument & Curation 5 Data Analysis Software

• Handled sales and money at mall kiosks and at Arts and Crafts Festivals
• Edited photos, prepared festival event applications, and contacted festival organizers

Vallejo, CA, US

• Investigated how APC protein regulates optic axon terminal arborization in living Xenopus laevis tadpoles
• Constructed DNA plasmids which expressed mutant APC protein
• Injected plasmids into optic neurons of tadpole embryos and imaged optic axonal arbors in vivo
• Techniques: Restriction Enzyme Digestion, DNA Agarose Gel Electrophoresis, Fluorescence Microscopy
• The above work resulted in the following publication:Jin T, Peng G, Wu E, Mendiratta S, Elul T. N-terminal and central domains of APC function to regulate branch number, length and angle in developing optic axonal.

Orange, CA, US

• Transported patients for emergency 911 calls and inter-facility transports

Princeton, NJ, US

• Explored the role of Msn2 protein on the yeast stress response and on genetic stability
• Established the functionality of an inducible system utilizing β-estradiol
• Constructed a constitutively nuclear Msn2 protein and confirmed cell viability with the mutant
• Demonstrated that constitutively nuclear Msn2 may have a negative impact on long-term cell viability
• Techniques: Yeast/Bacteria Transformation, Yeast Genome Extraction, Protein Purification, DNA Agarose Gel Electrophoresis, Restriction Enzyme Digestion, Flow Cell Microscopy, PCR
• The above work resulted in the following publication:Peng G. Saccharomyces cerevisiae, environmental stress, and genetic instability. Princeton University Press, June 2012.

Bachelor'S Degree, Molecular Biology

Master'S Degree, Medical Clinical Sciences/Graduate Medical Studies

Osteopathic Medicine/Osteopathy