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Berkeley, Ca, Us

San Francisco, California, United States

• Re-establishing and troubleshooting our lab workflow after relocating from Berkeley to San Francisco. • Supervising and training personnel in laboratory procedures and BSL-2 laboratory safety.• Managing laboratory inventory by ordering supplies. • Continuing lab work on identifying pandemic sequence types of E. coli that cause antimicrobial resistant (AMR) urinary tract infections (UTI) through bacterial culturing, DNA extraction, PCR, and gel-electrophoresis.• Other duties include working with UCSF HR to onboard new employees, administrative tasks for the lab, and project management of other current and upcoming projects.

Berkeley, California, United States

Department(s): Epidemiology & Biostatistics; Department of Family and Community MedicinePI: Eva Raphael, MD• Identified pandemic sequence types of E. coli that cause antimicrobial resistant (AMR) urinary tract infections (UTI) through bacterial culturing, DNA extraction, PCR, and gel-electrophoresis.•Contributed to a manuscript about risk factors for discordant antibiotic treatment in patients with a UTI and potential interventions to mitigate antimicrobial resistance. •Presented research about risk factors for discordant antibiotic treatment in patients with a UTI at the UCSF Family and Community Medicine Rodnick Colloquium (May 2024).•Reviewed a manuscript about trends and risk factors in uropathogenic E. coli genotype and antimicrobial resistance in a San Francisco public hospital network.

Berkeley, California, United States

Course: MCB 15Department: Molecular and Cell BiologySemester: Spring 2024Professor: John Matsui, PhDMCB15: This course examines the processes and culture of science, the science community, and the public, to address the communication-understanding gap that exists about scientific practice and knowledge.• Course Goal: to create “science ambassadors” who can create change and challenge science to be more inclusive, ethical, and values-based, as well as making science and medicine accessible to the public. • Course structure: lecture on Monday mornings, discussion sections on Monday afternoon, deeper-dive planning sessions on Tuesday mornings, and deeper-dive conversations on Wednesday mornings.• Contributed to designing the course structure, weekly assignments, and final project assignments since Fall 2023 using evaluations from the previous year. • Coordinated lectures, discussion sections, and deeper-dive conversations that incorporated group-based activities and larger class discussions.• Led a lecture on decolonizing science and planned activities for discussion sections and deeper-dive conversations independently. • Recruited and coached guest speakers for lectures on counter spaces, community-based participatory research, and science communication.

Berkeley, California, United States

• Mentored Latine undergraduate students conducting independent research by editing their research proposals, assisting them with data collection, and preparing them for their poster presentations.• Collaborated with a team of graduate students to coordinate and participate in panels, seminars, events, etc.

Berkeley, California, United States

Course: Bio 1BDepartment: Integrative Biology Semester: Fall 2023• Taught a weekly four-hour laboratory section with a co-instructor on topics focusing on organismal diversity, ecology, and evolutionary biology.

Oakland, California, United States

Department: East Bay Advanced Care at Alta Bates Summit Medical CenterSupervisor: Michele Tang, MD• Assisted with front desk activities such as answering phones, faxing documents, delivering mail, translating to Spanish-speaking patients, guiding patients around the clinic and hospital, and preparing check-in slips for medical assistants. •Learned about infectious diseases, medical conditions, and social determinants of health affecting patients through shadowing Dr. Tang in the clinic (EBAC) and hospital (Alta Bates).

Santa Barbara, California, United States

Department: AnthropologyPI: Michelle Brown, PhD• Identified gastrointestinal parasites (E.coli, Balantidium coli, Ancylostoma, etc.) in fecal samples collected from monkeys in Uganda through autoclaving, sample preparation, and microscopy.

Santa Barbara, California, United States

Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Marine BiologyPI: Andrew MacDonald, PhD• Identified ticks (Ixodes, Dermacentor, etc.) based on sex, instar, and species through microscopy.

Santa Barbara, California, United States

• Attended seminars designed to help first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented students thrive throughout a doctorate program.• Composed a research proposal for the SMI fox project focusing on investigating the potentialintermediate and paratenic host(s) to elucidate transmission of the acanthocephalan parasite.

Santa Barbara, California, United States

• Course: EEMB 111, Parasitology• Led two three-hour parasitology lab sections with a graduate student that focus on live animal dissections and observation of preserved parasites on the microscope.

Department: Molecular Microbiology and ImmunologyPI: Clive Shiff, PhD• Evaluated the sensitivity, specificity, accessibility of a rapid diagnostic test for malaria (Plasmodium falciparum) in three different ecological zones of the Southern Province in Zambia.

Santa Barbara, California, United States

Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Marine BiologyPI: Armand Kuris, PhDProject: Conserving the San Miguel Island Fox: Identifying the Intermediate Host(s) of the Acanthocephalan Prosthenorchis sp.• Investigated the acanthocephalan parasite, Prosthenorchis sp., and its contribution to the decline of the endemic San Miguel Island fox population on San Miguel Island, CA.• Led the project in recording the larval stages of Prosthenorchis sp. and nematodes found in fox scat samples through microscopy, fecal flotation, and fecal sedimentation to understand the parasite load in the fox population. • Funded by The Schmidt Family Foundation Research Mentorship Award.Project: The Influence of Gopher Host Characteristics on Parasitic Nematode Competition• Composed a course research paper for biostatistics investigating competition and host-parasite interactions between the gopher Thomomys bottae and nematodes Heligmosomoides sp. and Trichuris fossor.Project: Yosemite National Park Amphibian Parasite Project• Led dissections of tree frogs and analyzed their organs (lungs, heart, intestines, etc.) for larval trematode metacercariae.

Master Of Public Health - Mph, Infectious Diseases And Vaccinology

Pursuing an MPH in Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology with a certificate in Global Health.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Biology, General