Lecturer in Microbiology in the School of Natural Sciences

• Development of molecular biology tools and protocols to aid ensuring reproducibility of discovery in phage display and the development of liquid glycan arrays. Presented posters at 3 international conferences and published 2 papers in internationally journals. Filling of 1 patent of liquid glycan arrays.• Writing of research grants. Supervision of graduate students

• Development of molecular biology tools and protocols to aid ensuring reproducibility of discovery in phage display and the development of liquid glycan arrays. Presented posters at 3 international conferences and published 2 papers in internationally journals. Filling of 1 patent of liquid glycan arrays.• Writing of research grants. Supervision of graduate students

• Management of research projects and staff, Training of staff, Development of company standard operating procedures, Sales lead generation.• Management of phage display library development, Development of SOP for library cloning and development of rapid high-throughput cloning of targeted lead development libraries.• Attended several course of biomedical entrepreneurship to learn about the development science based companies

I worked for Professor Matthias Gotte and studied a variety of enzymes including Herpes DNA polymerase, Herpes virus Terminase enzymes, HIV reverse transcriptase and deep sequencing of HCV.• Development of mutant bacteriophage, expression constructs, purification protocols and assays for the development of a surrogate system for discovering antivirals for Herpesvirus, Presented 4 posters and 1 talk at international conferences and published 3 papers in internationally… Show more I worked for Professor Matthias Gotte and studied a variety of enzymes including Herpes DNA polymerase, Herpes virus Terminase enzymes, HIV reverse transcriptase and deep sequencing of HCV.• Development of mutant bacteriophage, expression constructs, purification protocols and assays for the development of a surrogate system for discovering antivirals for Herpesvirus, Presented 4 posters and 1 talk at international conferences and published 3 papers in internationally journals.• Supervision of graduate students, lab management, shifting of a research lab, lab set-up including organization of safety program and radiation license, ordering of lab supplies, maintenance of lab equipment. Show less

I worked in the lab of Professor Matthias Gotte on a project to develop a novel phage based screening assay for identifying and developing new antivirals against herpes viruses. Details of this project can be found at http://www.cqdm.org/en/funded-projects/Gottean.php• Development of mutant bacteriophage, expression constructs, purification protocols and assays for the development of a surrogate system for discovering antivirals for Herpesvirus, Presented 4 posters and 1 talk at… Show more I worked in the lab of Professor Matthias Gotte on a project to develop a novel phage based screening assay for identifying and developing new antivirals against herpes viruses. Details of this project can be found at http://www.cqdm.org/en/funded-projects/Gottean.php• Development of mutant bacteriophage, expression constructs, purification protocols and assays for the development of a surrogate system for discovering antivirals for Herpesvirus, Presented 4 posters and 1 talk at international conferences and published 3 papers in internationally journals.• Supervision of graduate students, lab management, shifting of a research lab, lab set-up including organization of safety program and radiation license, ordering of lab supplies, maintenance of lab equipment.• Presentation of undergraduate lectures. Show less

• Researched filamentous phage virion export and infection. Presented 1 poster and 4 research talks at international conferences. Published 4 research papers in internationally journals.• Undergraduate teaching assistant.

I worked under the supervision of Dr Steve Flint on a project to investigate rapid methods in microbiology for the dairy industry. In this project I evaluated the use of the BacTrac system for evaluating microbial titer in milk powder.