● Establishment and refinement of Parkinson’s disease in vivo models within a team containing direct reports● Design, execution and analysis of in vivo pharmacology studies to support diverse cross-functional teams within Parkinson’s disease small molecule and biologics drug development programs● Written and oral communication of data distilled into succinct summary reports

● Collaborated as a member of an interdisciplinary team on Parkinson’s disease treatment involving preclinical research and patient-focused work

● Project management and organization to lead the research project on in vivo alpha-synuclein CNS overexpression in the mouse prefrontal cortex using AAV, which generated data to drive the lab’s first RO1 application● Problem solving applied to advance the use of a head-fixed behavioral task for simultaneous functional characterization of individual neurons through recording of calcium transients using 2-photon microscopy, thus establishing a key new technique for the laboratory● Used problem solving and critical thinking to write custom Matlab and R analysis pipelines for efficient processing, organization, and visualization of data● Strong organizational, leadership and management skills to mentor and train 3 undergraduates and 3 research assistants in the laboratory

● Managed 2 productive collaborations with research groups in the biochemistry and genetics departments that generated one peer-reviewed publications● Demonstrated learning agility to perform studies in diverse developmental fields, which included the first studies to find a critical role for the nuclear protein, Akirin2 in the developing brain and interdigital web regression, as well as in myogenesis● Organization and attention to detail to develop in vitro assays using cell lines and primary neurons (hippocampal and cortical) for mechanism of action studies● Generated both mutated and tagged forms of Akirin2 plasmids using molecular cloning techniques and designed experiments to confirm their expression in primary neuronal cultures using qPCR, immunofluorescent imaging, and Western blot analysis ● Designed and optimized gene-expression assays for knockout Akirin2 cells using shRNA and qPCR in muscle and neuron cell cultures● Excellent written communication skills, resulting in an extensive first-author review article, 3 first-author peer-reviewed research publications, 2 second-author research publications and an INI accelerator grant on my research.

● Time-management and organization skills applied to working on 3 distinct research projects● Managed a pre-clinical research project using the drug-induced reinstatement paradigm in rodents to study kappa-opioid agonism effects, resulting in a peer-reviewed publication● Collaborated on a diverse, international team to establish and complete a proteomics study using LC-MS/MS to identify proteome differences between wasps endemic to multiple countries, resulting in a peer-reviewed publication● Leadership skills used to co-mentor 2 PhD and 2 Masters students

● Teaching molecular biology techniques to undergraduate students at 100-, 200- and 300-level ● Testing and preparing reagents for class laboratory experiments● Plasmid transformation, bacterial cultures, plasmid purification, DNA & RNA extraction, PCR● Ordering relevant supplies and disposal of waste reagents