Skills:
SKILLS<br/>GENERAL LABORATORY<br/> Pipette, weigh, sterilize, filtrate, titrate, wash/clean glassware, sterile techniques, pH and temperature measurements.<br/><br/>IN-VITR... AND EX-VIVO EXPERIMENTS<br/> Cell/tissue culture, preparation and sterilization of media, fluorescent staining, cytometry,<br/>cytotoxicity assays, incubators, measurement of IC50 and LD50 of biological compounds.<br/><br/>ANIMAL CARE<br/> Handle and restrain, weigh animals, injections, anesthetization, evaluate animal records,<br/>sterile surgical procedures, collect blood and other biological samples.<br/><br/>GENETIC ENGINEERING<br/> Gene transfection, Southern blot and Western blot, PCR, RT-PCR, Q-PCR, plasmid design,<br/>plasmid purification, gene expression, digestion, ligation, bacterial transformation, gene<br/>integration, tdl in system for integration, recombinase mediated cassette exchange (rmce),<br/>structural genomics, DNA shuffling, protein evolution.<br/><br/>ORGANIC MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY<br/> Fabrication of polymeric nanoparticles by emulsification-solvent evaporation, ionic gelation and coacervation methods.<br/><br/> Fabrication of liposomal and micellar nanoparticles using bangham and reverse phase<br/>evaporation methods.<br/><br/> Fabrication of multi-layer hybrid nanoparticles using lipid film hydration and emulsion<br/>methods for sequential drug delivery.<br/><br/> Surface functionalization of drug and gene loaded nanoparticles for improved<br/>pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.<br/><br/> Determination of synergistic dosages for combinatorial therapy, measurement of encapsulation efficiency, drug loading and nanoparticle yield, modification of release<br/>patterns.<br/><br/... Light microscope, multiphoton fluorescence, microscopy, SEM, TEM, DLS, HPLC, UV/VIS,<br/>spectrophotometry, mechanical testing, pore size analysis, contact angle, thermal<br/>analysis(TGA), standard and high speed centrifuges, precision balance, NSLS beamline,<br/>fluorometer, microplate meter.<br/><br/>SOFTWARE AND COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS<br/> Microsoft Office<br/> Data Processing<br/> TA Instruments Universal Analysis (winUA)<br/> Image J