- Menlo Park CA, US Natasha Popovich - Belmont CA, US Sassan Sheikholeslami - San Francisco CA, US Steven Lin - Palo Alto CA, US Aparna Vedula - Redwood City CA, US Yufeng Qian - Newark CA, US
International Classification:
B01J 19/00
Abstract:
Methods, compositions, and systems for distributing nucleic acids into array regions are provided. The methods, compositions, and systems utilize nucleic acid condensing agents to increase efficiency of distribution of the nucleic acids into the array regions. Various methods for facilitating distribution of the nucleic acids to the array regions are provided.
2011 to 2000 Research AssociateMolecular Response San Diego, CA Jul 2010 to Jan 2011 Research InternSan Diego State University San Diego, CA 2009 to 2010 Lab managerSan Diego State University San Diego, CA 2007 to 2010 Graduate Teaching AssistantSan Diego State University San Diego, CA Graduate Level Research:Symposiums and conferences San Diego, CA POSTERS/PRESENTATIONS
Education:
San Diego State University San Diego, CA 2010 Masters of Science in Cell and Molecular biologyJawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh May 2006 Bachelor of Technology in Biotechnology
Skills:
TECHNICAL SKILLS Molecular Biology: Polymerase Chain Reaction(PCR)Assays with various enzymes, Primer design, Gel electrophoresis and imaging DNA: High-throughput isolation using different protocols, quantification using various systems RNA: Isolation and optimization using different protocols from variety of tissues High Resolution Melt (HRM) technology- Assay design, experiment setup and analysis Automation: Qiagility instrument-Programming for complex reaction setup, optimization and trouble shooting Sequencing: Pyrosequencing with Pyromark 24- Assay design and setup; Run setup and analysis of results NGS: Ion Proton sequencing platform Quantitative PCR(qPCR) Gene cloning, transformations, minipreps to isolate plasmid, ligations, restriction digests Bioinformatics Sequence analysis: CLC genomics, Bioedit, DNAstar package, BLAST and multiple sequence alignment tools Phylogenetic analysis: MEGA package, Mr Bayes, PAML, Diverge2 Genomic tools: NCBI genomes, UCSC-Broad institute, JGI, ENSEMBL, TAIR, GEO, GeneSpring Programming skills: Python, C