Covering development of scientific publications and medical affairs materials across assets in psychiatry and neurology.

Laboratory of Neurogenetics of LanguageAdvisor, Dr. Erich Jarvis+ Founded research program in a species new to the lab. Included work on IACUC protocol development and approval, housing and enrichment procurement, national and international acquisitions as well as collaborating and negotiating with various stakeholders: veterinary staff, plant operations, animal use committees, financial departments, legal departments, and vendors+ Led a collaboration of 5 labs at 4 international institutions to generate a chromosome-scale, trio-phased marmoset genome assembly and annotation. Instated as NCBI world reference assembly+ Spearheaded formal (legal) collaboration among The Rockefeller University, The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and The Allen Institute to generate and share single-nuclei RNA sequencing (snRNAseq) datasets and high-quality reference genomes of 8+ mammalian species + Set up nuclei isolation and snRNAseq protocols in the lab. Led projects across personnel in the lab, 2 core facilities, and an external sequencing company to generate datasets from vocal motor brain regions in vocal learning and vocal non-learning species + Self-taught HPC cluster use, Bash, Slurm, and R to analyze high-dimensional snRNAseq datasets and perform cross-species comparisons. Identified gene expression specializations underlying vocal control/dexterity

+ Competitively accepted to and attended eight-week, intensive neurobiology research training course including sections in genomics, electrophysiology, imaging, and neuronal cell biology

DFG Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD)Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative NeuroscienceAdvisor, Dr. Elly Tanaka+ Independently studied spinal cord regeneration in the axolotl salamander, specifically genes implicated in neural stem cells’ hypothetical switch from a mature to more youthful state following an injury+ Established optimal guide RNAs for CRISPR-Cas9 gene knockout and evaluated the role of genes of interest by localized knockout in the axolotl spinal cord followed by tail amputation, imaging over time, and in situ and immunohistochemical analyses

W. M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience: The Spinal Cord Injury ProjectAdvisor, Dr. Wise Young+ Analyzed results of a clinical study on spinal cord untethering surgery and intensive locomotor training as a combined therapeutic approach to cases of complete (ASIA A) spinal cord injury+ Studied gender differences of the spinal cord in the Fischer rat model of spinal cord injury+ Independently studied neuromorphological differences in the brains of control, spinal cord injured, and/or lithium treated Fischer rats (male and female)

+ Trained in cell culture and cell sorting techniques + studied triploblastic gene expression in pluripotent stem cells of normal human dermal fibroblast lines