Megan B. Email & Phone Number

Westbrook, Maine, United States

Greater Los Angeles Area

Biosensor cell-based assays, Celigo, fluorescent microscopy, HEK cell culture, ImageJ, Prism, tissue fraction and homogenization

Portland, Maine Area

Affinity purification, antibody quantification testing, aseptic and sterile techniques, BCA testing, BSC, buffer preparation, calibration of pipettes using Artel system, cGMP lab procedures, concentration of supernatant, diafiltration, instrument reading and calibration, isotype testing, managing lab inventory and ordering, manual column purification, safety committee member, SOP revision, zonal electrophoresis

Portland, Maine Area

Antibody quantification testing, aseptic and sterile techniques, BSC use, calibration of pipettes using Artel system, cGMP lab procedures, cell culture for ascites and in vitro projects, health checks, instrument reading and calibration, isotype testing, light microscopy, maintaining cryostorage inventories, managing lab inventory and ordering, media preparation, mycoplasma decontamination and retrieval, mycoplasma test preparation, safety committee member, SOP revision

Autoclaving, bacterial staining, biofilm formation, BLAST database, cell culture, centrifugation, citrate testing, classification of organisms, DNA isolation and purification, extraction, fermentation testing, gel electrophoresis, Gram staining, growth in oxygen testing, indole testing, growth medium preparation, light microscopy, metagenomics, physical characteristic testing, pipetting, qPCR, solution preparation, testing for degradation of large extracellular molecules, testing for use of inorganics,

Developmental Biology Lab

Funded through a NASA fellowship: aseptic and sterile techniques, dissection techniques, DNA isolation and purification, light microscopy, maintaining a population of Manduca sexta, pipetting, qPCR

tutored students in ESOL, writing, peer academic tutoring, writing for the sciences, biology, microbiology, as well as served as a tutor mentor

Bachelor’S Degree, Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Beta Beta Beta, president; Biology Club, president

Associate’S Degree, English Language And Literature, General, Suma Cum Laude