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• Developed high-quality, scientifically accurate, strategically aligned, ethical, and complaint content that passes legal review; document types included abstracts, conference posters, technical notes, application notes, standard operating procedures, best-practice documents, and user guides; checking colleagues’ work against source materials; establishing and ensuring adherence to writing style guides• Manad multiple concurrent activities; Project managerial duties including establishing a scientific materials process pipeline, authoring related internal documentation, and shepherding documents from Application Development team through internal review process and comment resolution; actively tracking deliverables and communicating timelines to leadership• Supported management of archiving activities by creating an internal publication tracker for systematic organization and search of papers relevant to the Vizgen platform and spatial biology

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

• Authored working protocols; created posters and presentations with external collaboratorsfocusing on customer orientation• Primary point of contact in re-branding efforts; project management for company unveilingefforts at AGBT 2022: managed budget for hospitality suite, scientific posters, andcollaborator talks, determining business needs to meet organizational and project goals• Benchmarking and proof-of-concept experiments on Volta instrument

• Identified and analyzed variation in DNA damage and repair capacities in mammalian cell linesand PBMCs using a high-throughput DNA damage assessment assay, CometChip• Collaborated with atmospheric chemists on an cross-functional study investigating impact ofcontaminants at Superfund sites on DNA damage and repair• Writing, drafting, and submitting scientific manuscripts; managed the updating, submission, andreview process through to publication for two unpublished manuscripts; created posters forconferences; editing and proofreading grant applications

• Identified protein and sequence determinants and transcriptional consequences of DNA damageand repair at abnormal DNA structures, common fragile sites, and rare fragile sites responsiblefor rare diseases such as Huntington’s disease and spinocerebellar ataxias• Selected for a highly competitive teaching fellowship through the Graduate Institute forTeaching and co-created a new Molecular Genetics lab course using experience coaching andassisting students with assignments, providing logical alternatives to solve difficult problems• Took a Scientific Communications course; authored original research manuscripts and a reviewarticle; wrote and edited grant proposals and technical documents; established priorities formultiple work products with competing deadlines in a timely manner

• Took the course titled "Recent Discoveries in Molecular Biology" through the Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences at the National Institutes of Health.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Biology, General

PhD research in Catherine Freudenreich's lab studying repetitive DNA and secondary structure formation in S. cerevisiae.

Bachelor'S Degree, Microbiology, General