Education:

 

2009, Expected Fall, M.S. in Bioinformatics, The University of Texas—El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968

2008, Expected Spring, M.S. in Microbiology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523

2002, May, B.S. in Microbiology and Biochemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523

 

 

Work Related Experience:

 

UTEP Department of Mathematics

September 2007 to Present –Graduate Research Assistant in the RNA VLab

CSU Department of Microbiology

May 2002 to May 2004, October 2006 to January 2007--Graduate Research Assistant --Phage isolation, analysis of RNA, DNA, and organics within different Mycobacterium  avium  subspecies.

August 2000 to May 2002 -- Undergraduate Research Assistant--Perform general lab prep and projects while studying M. avium.

January 2000 to May 2003 -- Undergraduate/Graduate Teaching Assistant--Set up the general microbiology, immunology, and molecular biology labs, answer questions students have on the procedures and grade homework assignments.

CSU Morgan Libraries

October 2001 to January 2007 -- Access Services Assistant Coordinator -- Supervise Reserve systems (Electronic and Traditional), monitor student budget expenditures, help with general library functions, served on inter-departmental committees

August 1999 to October 2001 -- Access Services Monitor

 August 1996 to May 1997, January 1999 to August 1999--Student worker

Monsanto

May 2001 to June 2001 -- Bioinformatics Intern -- Entered data into a genomics database from journal articles and wrote simple PERL scripts.