Lab member of the flow cytometry and cell sorting shared resource

• Reviews and provides feedback for research projects to ensure they meet federal and state regulations and institutional policies, requiring attention to detail and consistent application of process.• Coordinates ancillary review from relevant departments to ensure the protocol can be ready for committee review in a timely manner.• Suggests edits to internal documents for process improvement.• Educates laboratory staff and principal investigators on the rationale for the committee’s requirements and how it benefits the research mission.• Writes minutes and drives meetings for the committees.

• Troubleshoot experimental set up to ensure that variables are controlled, and results are replicable.• Train new hires and rotation students on Oracle purchasing, lab procedures, and new techniques.• Technical skills including microscopy, flow cytometry, RNAseq analysis, cell cultures, in vitro and in vivo experiments.

Research assistant in the Nolz laboratory. Same responsibilities as the senior research assistant role above. Additional responsibility to encumber monthly budget, recommend and implement allocation of expenditures across 3+ grants.

• Induced rice seeds, coculturing calli with agrobacterium, treating calli to select transgenic rice calli.• Augering soil samples, collecting plant samples, fertilizing canola plots, degraded soil samples with KCl.

• Cultivated human gut microbiota and C. difficile in an anaerobic chamber and biological safety cabinet. • Isolated bacteria in gel microdroplets to identify individual bacteria for gene sequencing.

• This job occurred over summers of 2014 & 2016. Operated and exercised gate valves and hydrant foot valves.• Flushed 10-12 water mains per day while flushing each main until the water was cleared of all sediment.• Replaced broken water meters and notified homeowners.