Ballwin, Missouri, United States
R&D Specialist with experience in plant propagation, plant tissue culture, media preparation, insect rearing, and data management.
-Perform plant tissue culture experiments within a biotech pipeline. -Media preparation for tissue culture experiments. -Manage T0 maize events to ensure successful seed set. -Manage pipeline data with the transformation and T0 event groups.
-Assisted the Transformation Team with carrying out tissue culture experiments. -Monitored bioburden for the lab water system. -Worked closely with the process optimization team with experiments aimed to increase transformation frequencies within the production pipeline. -Prepare Agrobacterium solutions for inoculation of plant tissue.
-Maintain greenhouse plant propagation operations for insecticide research. -Monitor environmental conditions of greenhouse and growth chambers. -Responsible for plant propagation for insect colonies. -Responsible for rearing the Western Flower Thrips colony.
-Prepare laboratory solutions for testing insecticide compounds. -Evaluate tests for percent mortality of insects. -Conduct field trials of insecticide compounds in row crops and tunnel houses.
-Maintained the native plant botanical garden. -Inventoried species. -Designed new garden areas. -Performed routine maintenance such as pruning, weeding, mowing, etc..