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United Kingdom

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

• Mentored 3 students through monthly 1-1 sessions to help track their academic progress, prepare students for GCSE exams and encourage applications to sixth form and university.
• Helped inspire secondary school students from disadvantaged backgrounds to pursue higher education on week-long summer camps.
• Led and assisted subject-specific workshops and classes that teach students about the benefits of university and higher education.

United Kingdom

• Worked as a consultant for COCO, a local charity that helps promote education, provides agriculture training and access to small loans to promote entrepreneurship to people in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. The project.
• Improved business awareness and communication by working with the client to first understand their needs and then deliver solutions through a 10,000-word report and oral presentation.
• Collaborated with team members from different backgrounds through brainstorming sessions and daily meetings to provide the best solutions for the client.
• Developed independent research skills to determine how the client’s social media presence could be optimised to increase brand awareness and future donations.

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

• Used fixed and live cell high-resolution, wide-field fluorescence and confocal imaging to study exosome biogenesis and secretion in Drosophila accessory glands using a range of cancer-relevant EGF-pathway mutants to.
• Designed genetic recombination crosses to generate flies with desired mutations for analysis.
• Analysed and quantified extracellular vesicles and their compartments of origin from images generated.

Oxford, United Kingdom

• Completed a structural biology project, which led to the production of protein crystals to help solve the structure of wild type and mutant forms of Centrosomin, an essential centrosomal protein from Drosophila.
• Developed skills in cloning and cell culture techniques to express mutant forms of Centrosomin in different E. coli strains.
• Designed primers to insert mutant Centrosomin into plasmids using PCR and recombination for bacterial transformation and then sequenced and analyzed the primer to confirm recombination was successful.
• Performed affinity chromatography and SEC to purify Centrosomin and SEC-MALS to study oligomerization.

Shanghai City, China

• Gave lectures to groups of 10 students in different areas of Biochemistry including enzyme kinetics, transcription, the cell cycle and metabolism.
• Produced additional study material including tests and homework, which were completed and graded each day.
• Analysed and critiqued personal statements for students and led consultancy workshops on improving university applications.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

• Completed 3 different lab research projects and maintained a report documenting my progress under the guidance of a mentor. Projects included improving perfume performance laundry detergent using GC-MS and studying.
• Performed a range of lab techniques including GC-MS, spectrophotometry and laser diffraction particle size analysis.
• Performed data analysis to identify statistically significant results using t-tests.
• Presented data to technical and commercial audiences internally and at the Year in Industry regional finals competition.

Mbiochem, Molecular And Cellular Biochemistry, 2.1

Activities and Societies: - Officer Cadet in the Oxford University Air Squadron (OUAS)/RAF Reserves. - Football team player for Worcester.

A Levels, Chemistry (A*), Biology (A), Maths (A) & Epq (A)

Activities and Societies: - Part of the football team. (2013-2015) - Member of the Student Association which involved attending weekly SA.