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Berkeley, California, United States

Joint Bioenergy Institute

Developed broadly applicable tools and protocols for genetic work in both model and non-model organismsdesigned low-risk heterologous expression constructs for model and non-model organismstaught other scientists how to use CRISPR-Cas9 in both Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Escherichia coliwrote internal and external grantsengaged in strategic planning around designed biological systems for the divisiondeveloped computer-assisted synthetic CRISPR design algorithmstaught a weekly class on programming in python for beginnerstaught a molecular biology and genetics bootcamp for software developersengaged in public outreach at grade schools, community colleges, and media conferencesled public tours of the laboratoriesmentored summer students and undergraduates

Joint Genome Institute

Designed, built, and deployed software for the design, coordination, and quality control of massive scale synthetic biology projectsbecame an expert in Corynebacterium glutamicum geneticsdesigned ambitious orthologous CRISPR editing projectsdesigned genetic tools for non-model and model microorganismsdesigned on-boarding algorithms for recalcitrant organismsengaged in outreach to the Oakland Public Schools, the general public, and community oversight committeescommunicated with members of Congress and policy makers in Washington DCdid strategic planning for the Biosciences Division for the future of biological systems designtaught a summer course in Perl programming for internstaught programming best practices

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Advised by Joel Bader & Jef Boekedissertation titled "Computer Assisted Design for Synthetic Biology"designed algorithms for the automatic design of synthetic eukaryotic chromosomesdesigned databases and tracking systems to assist the physical assembly and provide quality control across an international consortiumdesigned an interface for synthetic chromosome designdeveloped visualization software for synthetic constructsgave multiple invited and contributed talkswrote for and received graduate fellowships

Wrote bioinformatics software for molecular and synthetic biology projectsdeveloped algorithms for improved oligonucleotide design

Visited under the auspices of the DOE CSGF programlearned pythondeveloped models for the design of RNA attenuatorsdemoed sequence and ligation independent cloning to generate new attenuatorsdeveloped sequence visualization software

Ph.D., Human Genetics And Molecular Biology

learned Java and LaTeX took eight quarters of the medical school curriculum alongside medical students completed eight quarters of human.

B.S., Biology

High School Diploma