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Pipetting Samples

Science Experiences

""Our world is built on biology and once we begin to understand it, it then becomes a technology"

Ryan Bethencourt

Graduate Experience

Teaching Assistant 

MB 352: General Microbiology Laboratory

Lecture classes, organize experiments, grade test and lab reports, provided feedback

 

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BIT 510: Core Technologies in Molecular and Cellular Biology

Basic technologies of recombinant DNA procedures, gene expression, isolation and identification of nucleic acids and proteins.

Key Skills learned: CHO Cell Culture, Western Blotting, Gibson Assembly, Molecular Cloning, and SDS-PAGE

 

 BIT 582: Virus Biotechnology: Pathogens to Therapeutics

Introduction to molecular mechanisms of viral replication and pathogenicity, methods in detection of viral titer, and lectures on engineering virus for therapeutics

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Key Skills: Plaque Assay, Adherent primary Cell culture, Sf9 cell fluorescence activated cell sorting, Phage Assay, QPCR

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​BIT 579: High Throughput Discovery

Course focused on teaching how to design, prepare, and validate cutting edge high throughput approaches using an Eeppendorf epMotion 5075 liquid handler.

 

Key Skills: Programming Liquid Handler, DPCR, 16S libray test, Phenotypic Drug Discovery

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MB 714: Microbial Metabolic Regulation

  • A deep look into bacteria physiology and metabolism by analyzing their metabolic regulatory functions and pathways.

 

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BAE 528: Biomass to Renewable Energy

Course focused on the fundamentals of anaerobic digestion and fermentation of organic waste material to produce high value energy products. The systems taught focused on scalable models to enabling tomorrows bio-economy

 

Undergraduate Experience

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Undergraduate Coursework

  • MB 412: Medical Microbiology

  • MB 414: Microbial Metabolic Regulation

  • MB 441: Immunology

  • MB 452: Microbial Diversity

  • MB 461: Molecular Virology

  • BIO 414 : Cell Biology

  • GN 428: Introduction to Machine Learning in Biology

 

Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • Assessed the survival of Listeria monocytogenes stains on apples and observed their hemolytic properties.

  • Investigated the abundance and diversity in microbes obtained from the apples both in the presence and absence of Listeria.

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