Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
PhD Candidate in the Lab of Naama Kanarek
Laboratory Assistant for the AP Biology Hinton Scholars Program. Assisted with set-up, execution and teaching of AP Biology lab experiments for local high school students.
Teaching Assistant for HST 110/110 Renal Pathophysiology Course at HMS
Teaching Assistant - BIOS E-11 Medical Terminology in the Harvard Extension School. Wrote and graded exams and homeworks, provided medical school knowledge in class.
Wrote course syllabi, learning outcomes, and developed course materials (~3 hours of lecture videos, slides, lab protocols) for virtual summer anatomy and physiology laboratory class
Funded by: - Abramson Fellows Scholarship (2017 - Harvard College Research Program) - Harvard Stem Cell Institute Internship Program (HIP) (2018) Projects included: investigating systemic cell activation signals, characterizing secretory and mucosal cell populations in the blastema of a regenerating axolotl limb; configuration of cell-counting software. - Developed a pipeline using CellProfiler to accelerate digital cell-counting. Work has culminated in two co-authored publications. - Investigated systemic signals underlying cell cycle activation, including serum factors, macrophages and nervous tissue. - Investigated mTOR as a signal activator in systemic cell cycle activation using the inhibitor rapamycin. - Improved techniques for blood drawing and serum harvesting from adult axolotls. - Employed clodronate-filled liposomes as a technique for macrophage depletion. - Denervated axolotl limbs to investigated nerves as systemic signal mediators.
Manager for a 401c(3) non-profit, college choral group of 50 singers. Creates yearly budgets, in charge of concert logistics and planning, executive team management. Planned domestic tour for 50 choir members to New York City.
Intern with HIP (Harvard Stem Cell Institute Internship Program) Research in the Whited Lab, studying systemic cell cycle activation in axolotl.