Joshua Powers Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

- Led over 25 studies differentiating iPSCs to natural killer cells producing cells with high yield, viability, and purity.- Monitor team specific consumable/reagent inventory, including burn rate and spend management on average ~$20,000/week.- Interact with various vendors acquiring quotes, monitoring orders, and inquiring about products and reagents.- Maintain personal electronic lab notebook tracking protocols, experimental parameters, and capturing data.- Assist in scale-up process development work, successfully differentiating iPSCs to natural killer cells in a larger scale model with similar cell parameter success.- Responsible for experimental media preparation and reagent aliquoting, ensuring sterility through sterile filtration and aseptic technique as well as collaborating with lab operations team for general lab upkeep.- Collaborate with team to understand data to develop and establish future experimental designs and conditions.- Support various differentiation experiments within different types of bioreactors in both process development and scale-up work.

Classroom Teacher: 7th Grade Engineering & Technology- Taught six sections of a recently piloted engineering and technology course. - Designed curriculum to introduce students to the engineering design process and promote creativity, problem solving, and critical thinking skills.- Supported math and science teachers in covering apporopriate standards in both subjects.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

BME 1020: Introduction to Biomedical Engineering - Provide academic support to undergraduate students in an introductory biomedical engineering course as part of the instruction team.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

- Manage routine tasks in order to sustain cleanliness and sterility standards throughout laboratory space.- Assist in conducting various experiments and protocols, producing data models and figures in order to evaluate data and information regarding heart health and diseases using rats as a model organism.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

- Collaborated with lab technicians during review experiments annotating and analyzing 100+ optogenetic and fluorescent datasets tracking neural activity, specifically the neuron NSM activity, in response to food interaction in C. elegans. - Evaluated and investigated the role posture and positions played in behavior of C. elegans upon encounterments with food. - Measured and analyzed the role different macromolecule contents of E. coli played in the intensity of NSM activity within C. elegans, through fluorescent microscopy tracking images within different genomes. - Produced graphs and charts depicting data results of different animal and bacterial genomes for discussion in order to evaluate data and illustrate results to prepare future experiments.

Greater Boston

- Collaborated with a single lab partner in order to identify and characterize an unknown strain of bacteria by developing and performing numerous laboratory protocols and assays, ultimately identifying a strain with DNA sequence ~96% identical to Bacillus subtilis. - Presented results and conclusions to MIT and HRIA faculty and community with lab partner as one of seven pairs to complete the program.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biomedical/Medical Engineering

Abroad Study

Study Period: Fall Semester 2021 Relevant Courses: Applied Dental Materials Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine

High School Diploma

Graduated 4th in the class with a 4.7 GPA and was enrolled in the Allied Health Academy and the STEM Academy