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Montreal, Canada Area

Montreal, Canada Area

Responsibilities - Management and facilitation of oral and written communication between institutions in Mexico and Canada. Accomplishments - Facilitated the communication and signing of a contract between The Autonomous University of Guerrero (UAGro) in Mexico and McGill University to enroll 15 students in an intensive language course in summer 2015. - Assisted the Guerrero State Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (COCITYEG), in Mexico, to sign a contract worth with McGIll University for a course of the same nature (7 students), and a second contract worth with CLC Montreal (3 students).

Montreal, Canada Area

Responsibilities - Development of enzymatic assays for the biochemical characterization of enzymes, following guidelines and high standards of quality. - SOP writing and training of co-workers, monitoring and verifying results. - Data management and analysis through spreadsheets. - Reporting to lab meetings to discuss results and future directions. - Giving presentations and writing manuscripts for publications. Accomplishments - Worked in a team, testing and characterizing hundreds of enzymes. - Co-authored one publication and prepared 2 other manuscripts. - Established HPAE-PAD (anion exchange chromatography) for carbohydrate research.

Montreal, Canada Area

Responsibilities - Design of protocols for the construction of a ribozyme. Accomplishments - Assisted a new graduate student jump start his M.Sc. research project.

Montreal, Canada

Responsibilities - Ensured compliance with safety regulations. - Development of my own research project. - Group discussions for results and future directions. - Management of product ordering and maintenance of inventory. - Supervision of undergraduate students and their familiarization with laboratory techniques. Accomplishments - Established protocols in molecular biology and analytical chemistry to investigate the role of a gene in the development of Arabidopsis thaliana. - Designed, expressed, detected and analyzed the function of an artificially engineered micro RNA. - Published M.Sc. research as a thesis.

Montreal, Canada

Responsibilities - Protocol design for RNA extraction - RNA extraction and purification Accomplishments - Begun a project for a gene expression study in aphids as part of a collaboration between a principal investigator at Concordia University and another abroad.

Montreal, Canada

Responsibilities - Supervision of undergraduate students. - Assistance to undergraduate students. - Marking of essays, lab reports and exams. Accomplishments - Supervised up to 30 students (depending on course) in three different courses. - Provided office hours to help students with the course material.

Farmington, Connecticut

Responsibilities - Volunteered in the laboratory of Dr. Peter Setlow.- Worked on developing my own research project. Accomplishments - Cloned and expressed SASPs from Clostridium perfringens in Bacillus subtilis spores and studied their resistance to various environmental stresses. - Produced one first author peer-reviewed research article.

Mexico City, Mexico

Responsibilities - Worked on developing my own research project - Assessment of DNA damage using single cell gel electrophoresis (comet assay) Accomplishments - Assessed and compared DNA damage by organophosphorous pesticide metabolites in hepatic cell lines HeLa and WRL68 and blood cells. - Co-authored one publication.

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Biology

Thesis title: Characterization of AtST10, a sulfotransferase in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Experimental Biology

Clinical Laboratory Technician, Health Science