Berkeley, California, United States
Molecular and microbial biologist with 5 years of experience in molecular biology, strain engineering, and high-throughput screening. I am passionate about developing the bio-manufacturing economy and contributing to solutions towards living more sustainably.
QCRG Structural Biology Consortium • Volunteering with protein purification and over-expression of COVID-19 and human protein partners in E. coli • Testing over-expression constructs' protein expression quantity, quality, solubility, biochemical availability
Rosenberg Lab • Employed full-time in Oren Rosenberg's lab, working both independently and with post-doctorate Kate Kim • Solving the structure of protein complexes of interest in model organism Mycobacterium smegmatis by engineering endogenously tagged strains. • I tagged 10 important antibiotic targets. Of these, two of my targets have progressed to structural studies: PKS13--a multi-enzyme dimeric complex crucial in mycolic acid biosynthesis, and EfpA--an antibiotic efflux pump • Trained in structural biology cloning techniques, protein purification • 1 manuscript in review process
Roybal Lab • Volunteered full-time in Kole Roybal's lab under post-doctorate Daniel Goodman. • Project focused on combining barcoded T-cell signaling GO-term knockouts and barcoded CAR T-cell receptors to map T-cell signaling and fate. • Experience with novel immunology techniques: Flow Cytometry and sorting, barcode cloning, Lentivirus packaging/cell transduction, human cell culture
Chory Lab Worked full-time in Joanne Chory's lab under research associate Xiaobo Zhao, studied the protein pathways of heat resistance in the Arabidopsis Thaliana. • Experience with plant tissue culture, transformation, basic molecular techniques