Doctoral Advisor: Professor Catherine Fox• Dissertation: Molecular and Genetic Analysis of ORC Target Site Selection and Origin Function in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.• Designed and carried out a successful research project leading to multiple publications in leading journals and presentations at international research meetings• Established collaborations with multiple research groups to meet specific project goals• Provided leadership, technical advice, and training to colleagues• Gained excellent technical skills and experience in protocol and assay development • Special expertise in nucleic acid isolation and detection, ChIP and ChIP-chip analysis, and experience with iTRAQ mass spectrometry

• Thesis: Heterelogous Expression of the Vibrio harveyi LuxP gene in Escherichia coli.• Cloned the V.harveyi LuxP gene including HA and T7 protein tags for heterologous expression in E.coli • Performed pilot protein expression and purification experiments.

· Gained expertise in GeneBridges proprietary Red/ET cloning system · work included BAC and YAC transformation into E.coli, plasmid DNA preparation, PCR