Under the direction of the new Chief of the Division, responsible for launching and daily operations of division laboratories. Responsibilities include:• Establish and maintain IRB, IACUC, IBC, and EH&S compliance; • Interview, hire and supervise personnel; • Budget appropriation including daily fiscal operations;• Advise Principle Investigators on fiscal oversight; • Evaluate, advise and execute legal contracts (MTA’s, CDA’s, subcontract, purchasing); • Develop and maintain computer resources including Division and SharePoint websites;• Contribute to and submit grant proposals to federal and private institutions;• Communicate with sponsoring agencies on grant policies and guidelines; • Contribute to published materials; • Establish standard operating protocols including chemical and biohazard safety; • Design and plan proposed gnotobiotic animal facility; • Troubleshoot equipment and experimental procedures.

Responsible for daily operations of multi-million dollar grant-funded 55 person lab. Committed to encouraging individual and collaborative efforts that develop professional, business and interpersonal skills in the lab and with subcontractors and to create a working environment that is exciting, productive and satisfying. Responsibilities include:• Assist 30 junior faculty including acquisition, upgrading and troubleshooting of equipment and experimental procedures;• Direct supervision of ten personnel and indirect supervision of seven personnel;• Implementation of a lab-wide electronic notebook system to capture and coordinate data from multiple research projects;• Assist in technology transfer, assess the commercial potential of technologies, identify possible industrial licensees, assist in preparation of invention disclosures;• Composition of safety, equipment, and experimental SOPs;• Coordinate upgrading of existing procedures to meet current GLP, including chemical and biohazard safety;• Identification and implementation of cost-saving measures for all aspects of lab operations including personnel, supplies, equipment, and procedures;• Contribute to grant proposals and published material.

Responsibilities include:• Organization of facility including operation and maintenance of ABI Prism 3730XL DNA Analyzer;• Management of junior personnel;• Composition of safety, equipment and operational SOPs;• Perform upgrading of existing procedures to meet current GLP;• Contribute to grant proposals, published material and sample processing;• Identification and implementation of cost-saving measures including realizing close to $500,000 in savings over outsourcing.

Scientist in Research and Development department. Perform as team leader on new product launches including coordination of business development and licensing, marketing, information technology, and operational aspects of launch. Responsible for technology transfer from outside corporate and academic labs, licensing, developing new DNA- and protein-based diagnostic assays, patent application preparation, and upgrading and repairing existing assays while ensuring GLP standards. Accomplishments include:• Team lead on successful launch of Aprataxin assay four days ahead of schedule, including upgrade and standardization of the recessive gene result reports which will be used for all future sequencing projects that analyze recessive genes;• Team lead on successful launches of Parkin, DM2 and Mitochondrial Depletion assays;• Team lead of Tissue Handling Task Force consisting of members of the Quality Assurance, Operations, Accessioning, and Research and Development departments as well as the Safety Officer to review tissue-sample handling procedures. Conducted research into Biosafety Level handling procedures for non-fixed tissues such as blood, serum and muscle, including HIV+ samples. Completed the review and made comprehensive recommendations to the committee for improvements to Athena’s procedures two months ahead of schedule;• Team lead on upgrades of seven Western blot assays and sequencing assays;• Assist in maintaining accreditations from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, and the College of American Pathologists;• Consistently rated on MBOs to achieve 105% of bonus potential.

• Utilize molecular techniques to identify microorganisms responsible for the anaerobic degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in highly contaminated marine sediments; • design and implement an anaerobic chemostat system to grow and study the physiology and gene expression of anaerobic bacteria under steady-state conditions.

• Determine the molecular composition of the bacterial communities in marine enrichments and sediments; • determine the ability of petroleum-contaminated harbor sediments to degrade polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons under sulfate-reducing conditions; • determined the ability of anthraquinone 2,6-disulfonate (AQDS) and humic materials to act as electron shuttles to terminal electron acceptors in an anaerobic environment; • determined the ability of AQDS and plant-exuded phenolics to act as an electron shuttle to reduce iron for plant uptake; • maintain anaerobic bacterial cell lines under several culture conditions.

• Assist in development of experiment protocols; • Execute experiments including flow cytometry analysis and fluorescent-activated cell sorting and “kill” assays; • Dialyzation, purification, Western and PAGE analysis of proteins; • Splenocyte preparation; small animal handling including sacrificing and removing organs and bone marrow; • Isolation and continued culturing of several cell lines from mice and rats including adherent lymphokine activated killer (A-LAK) and natural killer cell lines; • Maintain cell cultures and lab stock materials; • Contribute to grant proposals and published material.