Skills:
Lab Management: Maintaining inventory, Ordering supplies, Scheduling meetings, Maintaining stocks (Drosophila), Making reagents, Enforcing lab safety protocols, Training new lab members, Delegating duties, Facility and equipment maintenance. Basic Molecular Biology Techniques: PCR, DNA/RNA/Protein purifications, Restriction Enzyme Digests, Gel Electrophoresis, Column Chromatography, Site-Directed Mutagenesis, Luciferase assays, Spectrometry, Western Blots, Cell Passaging, Cell Preservation, Cloning, Aseptic Techniques, Media Preparation, Sterilization, Transfections (Eukaryotic cells), Transformations (Bacteria). Specialized Skills: Handling of Human Embryonic Stem Cells: Trained by Dr. Victoria Fox, Eli Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cells at the University of Southern California. Culturing human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) on feeder cells and matri gel plates. Embryoid body formation, Cryopreservation of hESCs. Transfecting hESCs, and hESCs media preparation.