Work:
Avidity, LLC
Aurora, CO
Feb 2013 to Feb 2014
Scientist, Product Development
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO
Aug 2012 to Dec 2012
Faculty Lecturer
Harvard Medical School, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, MA
Jul 2007 to Aug 2012
Graduate Research
Children's Hospital Boston
Boston, MA
Dec 2006 to Jun 2007
Research Associate
CBR Institute for Biomedical Research Inc
Boston, MA
Jan 2002 to Jun 2006
Research Technician
Millennium Pharmaceuticals
Cambridge, MA
Sep 2001 to Dec 2001
Temporary Research Assistant
Harvard Center for Aging
Charlestown, MA
Aug 2000 to Sep 2001
Research Technician
Children's Hospital of Buffalo
Jun 2000 to Aug 2000
Intern /Research Technician
Novartis Agribusiness Biotechnology Research Inc
Research Triangle Park, NC
Nov 1999 to May 2000
Research Assistant
Children's Guild, Division of Genetics
Buffalo, NY
Jul 1999 to Nov 1999
Summer NHLBI Internship
School of Medicine, Dept. of Endocrinology
Denver, CO
May 1996 to Jun 1999
Fellow/Research Technician
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Madison, WI
Jun 1998 to Aug 1998
Intern/Research Technician
Howard Hughes Biological Sciences Education Initiative
Boulder, CO
Aug 1996 to May 1998
Lab Technician
HIGH SCHOOL EXPERIENCE
Denver, CO
Nov 1994 to May 1996
Intern/Student Worker
Education:
Harvard University
Boston, MA
2012
Master of Arts in Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Northeastern University
Boston, MA
2002 to 2005
Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO
1996 to 1998
Cellular and Developmental Biology
Harvard Medical School
TEACHING
Skills:
TECHNICAL BACKGROUND: Molecular Biology DNA, RNA, and protein manipulation, purification, expression, silencing, detection Promoter specificity, transcription factors, promoter polynucleotide repeat studies Gene trapping, SNP analysis, factors in hybridization based regulation Immunology Antibody phage display, human antibody engineering, immunogenetics Microbiology Recombinant, pseudo-, lenti, and baculovirus generation, basic virology techniques Virology: Vesicular Stomatitis Virus, SARS and Bat CoV, Influenza, Rabies, M13 phage Bugs: E. coli, S. Cerevisiae, C. Albicans, L. Monocytogenes Cell Biology Fluorescent live cell microscopy, immunocytochemistry, cargo and viral trafficking Cell culture: mammalian suspension and adherent cells, insect cells, primary cells, hematopoietic stem cells