Peyton Koch Email & Phone Number

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Berkeley, California, United States

I work in Principal Investigator Brian Staskawictz's lab with Dr. Geoff Vrla who heads a project focused on improving rice resistance to the fungus Magnaporthe grisea. I assisted with stacking resistance genes on plasmids and integrating these genes into the genome via agrobacterium transformation. I also am conducting a research project focused on combining and optimizing a novel leaf transformation in rice with the goal of regenerating transgenic plants quickly and bypassing the tissue culture process.

Berkeley, California, United States

In this position I assist the finance manager at the UC Botanical Gardens to manage customer payments (credit card, check, stock) and communicate effectively with customers about membership to the gardens. I also utilized my skills in Excel to maintain membership databases for optimized assistance.

School Of Freshwater Sciences, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

During my summer internship in Principal Investigator Dr. Ryan Newton's freshwater microbiology lab, I independently revitalized several key projects that had stalled during COVID-19. This included developing workflows for genomic analysis of the genus Flavobacterium, reinitiating biweekly water testing and bacterial culturing, and conducting antibiotic resistance gene testing using digital droplet PCR (ddPCR).