Natallia Riddick, Phd, Rlatg Email & Phone Number

Chapel Hill, NC, US

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

• Oversee 3 Specialty Programs within Division of Comparative Medicine. 1. Rodent Health Surveillance Program
• Manage university wide RHSP including all aspects of staff assignments and responsibilities, schedule regular sentinel/quarantine/import/export/loose rodent/PI equipment/DCM water & equipment sample collections; send.
• Key Achievements: Improved sentinel mouse recordkeeping/tracking, initiated AHU tracking system to decrease false positive test results.2. Transgenic Colony Management Core3. Laboratory Animal Transport

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

• Manage all day-to-day operations of the UNC-wide transgenic rodent breeding program including staff and workloads, PI meetings and breeding need consultations, IACUC protocol writing assistance, breeding compliance.
• Key Achievements: Received outside funding as a PI for a first independent CMC research study on mouse breeding and animal welfare, have progressively increased program revenue and expanded staffing/services, developed.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

• In addition to CMC duties:
• Guide, direct, and manage day-to-day lab animal transport (incoming & outgoing shipments/internal transfers/vendor orders) needs for UNC (domestic and international), including managing staff, collaborating with UNC.
• Key Achievements: Optimizing DCM software to improve case searchability, develop health questionnaire to decrease health report review time by coordinators/vets, negotiated favorable crate pricing with a new.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

• Oversaw, monitored, and supported all technical and colony management services (CMS) for rodent breeding colonies maintained by DCM in early stages of program development, ensured all procedures and requests were.
• Key Achievements: Grew the program from 8 colonies to 30, expanded research services available to include necropsy, treatments (injection, gavage), breeding consultation, colony management lecture and hands on.

Chapel Hill, NC

• Management and Coordination of a research program focused on genetic models of psychiatric disorders
• Increasing administrative responsibilities (ex. ePRO purchasing, laboratory protocol management).
• Provide oversight of Mouse Behavioral Core Facility and train/supervise students, postdocs, other trainees in the core
• Collaborate on grant proposals to further research efforts in psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disordersI am a key member of a long term collaboration with NIEHS and assist in planning, implementation, and analysis.

Chapel Hill, NC

Was a part of a team at Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities (CIDD) tasked with advancing long-term studies in mouse models of developmental and psychiatric disorders. My job entailed set up and completion of developmental studies requiring diverse types of behavioral evaluations, pharmacological regiments, survival surgeries, and biological.

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

• Dissertation Title: “Factors that affect social hierarchy and the influence of social rank and menstrual cycle on cocaine self-administration in female cynomolgus monkeys”Extensive behavioral pharmacological and.
• Handled and performed operant training of nonhuman primates
• Performed intravenous catheter implantation survival surgeries (also involved anesthesia monitoring, preop and postop procedures)
• Assisted research staff with husbandry, health monitoring and assisted veterinary staff with exams and procedures
• Nonhuman primate dosing, blood draws (awake venipuncture), brain imaging set up (i.e. arterial catheter placement, intubation, etc.), behavioral observations, anesthesia.
• Trained new personnel and students

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Conducted investigations of the neural and behavioral mechanisms that mediate the reinforcing effects of cocaine using a nonhuman primate model in a Behavioral Pharmacology Laboratory; familiar with PET and MRI imaging techniques

Buies Creek, NC

Laboratory assistant in several biology and chemistry laboratories. Assisted with set up and execution of laboratory experiments for Biology and Chemistry courses. 2003-2004 academic year worked as a teaching assistant in chemistry 111 and 112 laboratories.

RTP, NC

Summer intern in molecular biology division. Set up and ran various molecular assays (ex. western blot, ELISA), cell cultures, assisted with rodent necropsies

Clayton, NC

entered prescriptions into the computer systems, filled prescriptions, operated cash register, assissted customers

Phd, Pharmacology And Physiology

Activities and Societies: Western Chapter of Society for Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience, American Society for Pharmacology and.

Bs, Biochemistry

Activities and Societies: Eta Sigma Honor Society, Premed Allied Honor SocietyMagna Cum Laude