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Valley City, OH, US

Columbus, Ohio, United States

St Louis, Missouri, United States

• Performed downstream processes involved in the manufacture of biopharmaceutical drugs for clinical trials. My team received the grown cultures and isolated and concentrated target proteins.
• Operated various programs on ÅKTA chromatography skids connected to the reagents, buffers, filters, and columns designed to concentrate the final target proteins.
• Operations were performed in an ISO 8 facility to prevent contamination of the drug products.
• Documented all processes, equipment, reagents, and buffers used in production for FDA and international drug agency review.

Chesterfield, Missouri, United States

• Performed experiments to determine effectiveness of proprietary genetically modified crops (corn, soy bean, cotton). Each experiment involved infesting target plants with known insect pests and scoring tissue damage.
• During Covid-19 restrictions, took initiative in coordinating other employees to finish the ongoing projects while most supervisors were working off-site.
• Headed projects and supervised other employees to complete projects.
• Responsible for growing and maintaining plants in the growth chambers and greenhouses.
• Set up hatch tubs to hatch insect larvae for use in infest experiments.
• Maintained records and properly disposed of regulated insects, plants, and waste.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

• Research in the lab was focused on understanding how gastrointestinal and airway microbiomes shape allergic airway diseases such as asthma.
• Maintained germ-free mouse facility and colony for experiments with zero contamination incidents.
• Collected blood, fecal, gastrointestinal contents, organ tissues, and lung/nasal lavages from sacrificed mice for experiments.
• Performed various lab skills including DNA/protein extraction, PCR/qPCR, gel electrophoresis, ELISA, cell staining, cloning, Sanger sequencing, Snapgene, and R.

Oxford, OH

• Performed research into the effects of relatedness between pair-bonded prairie voles on individuals engaging in extra-pair copulations (EPC’s) with other partners.
• Maintained wild-caught prairie vole colony.
• Organized and collated previous trapping datasets into a manageable dataset to perform R based analyses to address my research aims.
• Obtained internal Scientific Challenge grant.
• Presented preliminary research at the Midwest Ecology and Evolution Conference (MEEC) in 2017.
• Taught two sections of General Biology I & II laboratories to undergraduate students for four semesters.

Lexington, Kentucky, United States

• Captured, measured, collected samples from, and collared white-tailed adults using net-fall and clover-cage traps.
• Other duties included inserting vaginal implant transmitters in adult does, radio-telemetry, mortality searches, field necropsies, and interacting with the public daily to explain the research project.

Starkville, Mississippi, United States

• Captured, measured, collected samples from, and collared white-tailed fawns.
• Trapped black bears using barrel traps and foot snares, and coyotes, wolves, and bobcats using foothold traps.
• Other duties included performing radio-telemetry on foot, in a vehicle, and from an airplane, mortality searches, field necropsies, vegetation surveys, black bear hair snares, howl surveys of wolf and coyotes, grouse.

Athens, Ohio, United States

• I assisted Dr. Prange in trapping, sedating, measuring, collecting samples, injecting PIT tags, and collaring bobcats.
• Performed coyote scat analysis to determine diet of local coyotes.

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

• I performed flax (Linum usitatissium) genome analysis and comparison, focusing specifically on breeding and growing separate strands of flax under stressful and non-stressful conditions, comparing whether specific.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biology, General

Activities and Societies: Summer Program in Undergraduate Research (2012); Undergraduate Research Assistant (2012-2013); Sigma Alpha Mu.

Master Of Science - Ms, Biology, General

Activities and Societies: American Society of Mammalogists; Graduate Student Association - Biology Department RepresentativeThesis: “The.