Morgan Bean Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, United States

University Park, Pa

As the Lead Teaching Assistant in Engineering Leadership Development, I lead a team of three Learning Assistants for the Engineering Leadership Principles course and serve as the Learning Assistant for the Engineering Leadership Coaching course. I manage communications and team formation for a total of 110 students across four class sections. In this role, I practice upper-level leadership through assignment feedback to support student growth and development. Additionally, I organize and maintain online course content to ensure accessibility and student understanding. In this unique position, I not only have a hand in the leadership development of the students, but I also get the opportunity to demonstrate and refine my own leadership abilities.

Penn State University Park

Over the course of my time working in the Salis Lab at Penn State University, I transitioned from Undergraduate Researcher to Graduate Research Assistant. As an undergraduate, I learned basic biotechnology skills and cloning techniques such as plasmid extraction, gel electrophoresis, PCR, Gibson assembly, ligation, and transformation. As a graduate student, I applied these techniques to carry out my Master's thesis research which is focused on designing and building over 35 modular CRISPR interference genetic circuits in E. coli. The aim of my research project is to establish fundamental rules for ease of future assembly of genetic systems using CRISPRi technology. Through my graduate research, I added genetic design, recombineering, and genetic system characterization to my synthetic biology skillset.

State College, Pennsylvania Area

The Global Engineering Fellows Program is a globally focused leadership organization with the initiative of promoting international education and building cultural intelligence. As a Global Engineering Fellow, I peer advised Penn State students in the College of Engineering who were interested in studying abroad. I delivered six presentations as a Global Fellow detailing the values and attributes that I acquired through my global experiences.

Atherton Hall

As a Resident Assistant on campus, I facilitate community building through programming and interpersonal connection to create an inclusive living environment for my 66 residents of Atherton Hall. I reach out to residents to form trusting relationships and to keep them informed on opportunities for involvement. I work within an Residence Life staff of 11 members to develop community standards and plan events that promote student engagement. Our goal as a staff is to ensure that the residents of Atherton Hall are living in a community of safety, responsibility, and respect.

South San Francisco, California, United States

This internship was in association with being awarded the Genentech Outstanding Student Award.As a Device Development Engineering Intern at Genentech, I worked with various project groups on topics spanning project management, device materials, and human factors engineering. I used this opportunity to gain experience in many realms of the pharmaceutical device space. My project accomplishments from my internship at Genentech included: (1) Reviewing device model dimensions using SOLIDWORKS to ensure design accuracy, (2) Justifying a worst-case device storage temperature scenario through thermal property research and material supplier collaboration, and (3) Analyzing Human Factors study reports and FDA feedback to create an ‘Instructions for Use Style Guide’, establishing image cohesion across the Roche medication instruction portfolio.

Greater Boston Area

As a Biologics Upstream and Microbial Development Intern at Takeda Pharmaceuticals, I worked within the Microbial Development Team to optimize growth media conditions for anaerobic culture of key human gut microbiota. My role involved organizing and executing experiments to determine preliminary favorable media for the microorganisms, analyzing the growth data results, and strategically planning subsequent experiments to further increase healthy culture. The overall goal of my team's work was to develop live bacterial therapeutic products that combat various diseases through supporting gut microbiome health. Over the course of the summer, my team and I achieved a 400% growth improvement in one of our target strains.

Bradford, Pennsylvania

State College, Pennsylvania Area

At the Morgan Academic Center, I guided student athletes through challenging academic topics to support understanding and academic growth. To promote long term success, I taught peers healthy and effective study habits to maintain academic accomplishment. In this role, I gained leadership experience in a one-on-one environment.

State College, Pennsylvania Area

As part of NASA's Pennsylvania Space Grant Research initiative, I was provided funding to conduct research in the Micro and Nano Biosystems Lab at Penn State. The focus of this lab was circulating tumor cell detection in cancer patient blood samples from Hershey Medical Center and Mt. Nittany Hospital. My role involved using fluorescent microscopy to scan blood samples and identify circulating tumor cells. The ultimate goal of this research was to develop a fast and simple blood test to track treatment success.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Bioengineering

UW School of Medicine Fellow

Master Of Science - Ms, Agricultural And Biological Engineering, 4.0

Graduate Research Assistant in the Salis Lab Research focus: Synthetic CRISPRi circuits in E. coli

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biological Engineering, 3.9

Activities and Societies: Schreyer Honors College; Synthetic Biology Research Assistant; Engineering Leadership Development Program.

Engineering Leadership & Design

In May 2019, I studied abroad in South Africa at the Belgium Campus ITversity for one week. This was part of an embedded Engineering.

Engineering Design

In the summer of 2018, I studied abroad for three weeks at the National University of Singapore. I took an engineering design course.

Bridges Program

In high school, I participated in the BRIDGES program which allowed upperclassman to take courses at our local university to begin.

Education record

Activities and Societies: BAHS National Honor Society President, Student Council, Varsity Volleyball, Varsity BasketballGPA: 4.0