Scientific Experience

Work Experience

Graduate Teaching Assistant (August 2024 - Present)

Biotechnology Program at NC State University

Instruct the laboratory sections of an introductory biotechnology course that is taken by upperclassmen and graduate students
Troubleshoot laboratory experiments during lab sessions, employing quick problem-solving skills to help students identify and resolve technical issues, ensuring smooth workflow and accurate results
Provide timely and constructive feedback on assignments to ensure students are achieving the learning outcomes of the course

Post-Baccalaureate Laboratory Technician (June 2023 - August 2024)

Biotechnology Program at NC State University

Provided a seamless learning experience for students in BIT 410/510 by facilitating the preparation of laboratory experiments, ensuring that reagents and materials were stocked, running experiments ahead of time, troubleshooting protocols, and aiding teaching assistants with the facilitation of experiments
Assisted faculty members and postdoctoral teaching scholars with piloting laboratory protocols, ensuring laboratory spaces are clean and safe, and maintaining mammalian and insect cell lines as well as model organisms, such as C. elegans and planaria.
Contributed to the planning and implementation of outreach activities such as a visit to the North Carolina School for the Deaf

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Graduate Coursework

BEC 532:

Biological Processing Science (Fall 2024)

Fundamental scientific principles underlying the recovery, purification and formulation of biologics (biotherapuetics), especially proteins, are examined. Laboratories in the analytical and small-scale purification facility provide students with 'hands-on' exposure to key scientific principles and small scale unit operations.

BIT 582:

Virus Biotechnology

(Fall 2024)

Covers concepts spanning principles in molecular virology through to engineering of viruses as molecular therapeutics. Upon course completion, students are able to describe the basic tenets of molecular virology, articulate several principle uses of viruses in biotechnology applications, and perform data analysis on several fundamental virus assays.