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South San Francisco, California, United States

Lead programs with cross-functional teams to support on-market products and deliver programs on schedule and budget. Communicate program milestones, updates, and escalations to leadership through program review and stakeholder meetings.

Stanford, California, United States

Assisted on multiple projects simultaneously through experimental planning, conducting experiments, maintaining plants in growth chambers or greenhouses, data analysis, and writing papers and grants. Molecular skills: genotyping, CRISPR screens, RNA extractions and cDNA synthesis, RT-qPCR, vector design and gateway cloning. Plant Phyisology skills.

Mountain View

Contracted via Adecco. Lead lab technician aiding in development of machine learning compatible binding assays for downstream applications. Duties included designing experiments for all lab technicians on project, meeting with computational biologists, direct supervisor, and boss to discuss experimental designs and data. Daily duties included optimization.

Coached intermediate to advanced dinghy racing and keelboat classes for children ages 7-18.

Berkeley, CA

Assisted in research in the Hake Lab in the UC Berkeley Plant Gene Expression Center. Duties include: field work, plant tissue culturing with Agrobacteria plasmid transfers, DNA and RNA prep, PCR, gel electrophoresis, fluorescence microscopy, paraffin and plastic cell sectioning.

Berkeley, CA

Perform a variety of physical tasks to assist horticulture team, including planting, pruning, mulching, weeding, raking.

Assisted in noosing gravid female S. occidentalis in the Yosemite Wilderness in order to study the evolution of this species at high and low elevation sites. Collection trips were conducted through 3-4 day backpacking trips at the Hetch Hetchy reservoir. Duties included noosing lizards and transporting them back to the Sierra Nevada Research Station, as.

Berkeley, CA

Managed co-op of 40 members. Duties include move ins/move outs, facilitating room bid process, house finances, emergency preparedness, correspondence with the central office on the house level, and coordinating with other managers for house maintenance, interpersonal issues, etc.

During summers, taught children ages 7-12 the fundamentals of sailing for a nonprofit organization with an emphasis on ocean conservation and daily beach cleanups. During academic year, coached weekly sailing club for local middle school children.

Berkeley, CA

Researched effects of water temperature and other factors on population growth of the green algae Ulva in the San Francisco Bay. Duties included: DNA extraction, PCR, data entry and checking, monitoring algae tanks, photographing petri plates, analyzing and counting morphologies.

Bachelor'S Degree, Cell/Cellular And Molecular Biology

Activities and Societies: Captain of Berkeley Sailing Team, Berkeley Student Cooperative, Member of Forestry Club

Education record

Cummulative GPA 4.4. Recognized Elk's Lodge Senior of the Month, 4-time Coach's Award for Girl's Varsity Swimming, Platinum Pirate Award.