Experience

Addgene

Laboratory Technician II

• Purified and ran quality control assays on over 100 recombinant affinity reagents under NIH’s BRAIN initiative.
• Cloned sequence-defined antibodies made available to the scientific community and aided with customer questions.
• Represented Addgene at several scientific conferences.

Ondrus Lab

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow (SURF)

• Studied a pathway implicated in numerous cancers, such as basal cell carcinomas.
• Designed a Smoothened knockout line of mouse embryonic fibroblasts using the CRISPR/Cas9 system.
• Performed protein expression assays to determine Smoothened activity using the ShhLIGHT2 reporter system. 
• Maintained up to 10 mammalian cell lines at a given time.

Biology 1

Teaching Assistant

• Developed learning plans and assessments for over 200 students.
• Led a recitation section involving microscopy for about 25 students.

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics

Summer Intern

• Doubled pipetting speed by developing Python scripts to automate pipetting protocols.
• Cultured bacterial and bacteriophage populations to investigate a new treatment for antibiotic-resistant infections.
• Assisted in transitioning lab work over to GMP standards.

Ismagilov Lab

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow (SURF)

• Designed novel primers for antibiotic susceptibility tests.
• Developed protocols for several new methods for rapid nucleic acid amplification and tested multiple novel methods.
• Wrote code for image processing analysis of digital droplet PCR outputs.

Anbar Lab

Research Intern

• Wrote a proposal and awarded a $5,000 grant to study breath carbon isotopes and human metabolism.
• Developed protocols for measuring breath carbon isotope ratios with cavity ring-down spectroscopy.
• Managed a study from start to finish, including IRB approval and publication.

Education

California Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering

Technical Skills

Wet Lab

• Western Blot
• qPCR
• Liquid Nitrogen Handling
• Cell Culturing (Mammalian, Bacterial, Phage)
• DNA Extraction
• Light Microscopy

Coding

• Python 2.7 and 3.6
• C; C++
• Java
• Stan
• R
• MATLAB

Data Analysis

• Bayesian Statistics
• Image Processing
• Machine Learning

Languages

• English (Native)
• Spanish (Proficient)
• Japanese (Intermediate)

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

SURF Seminar Day – “Oxysterol and Corticosteroid Interactions with Smoothened” October 2019

Gordon, Gwyneth & Rhoads, Amrita 2018, “Field-Deployable Measurements of Free-Living Individuals to Determine Energy Balance: Fuel Substrate Usage through Breath δ13C and Diet through Hair δ13C and δ15N values”, Isotopes in Environmental & Health Studies

SURF Seminar Day – “Development and Refinement of Rapid Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing” October 2017