Kristy Cloyd

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City: San Jose

State: CA

Zip: 95110

Country: USA

Phone: 408-***-****

Skill Level: Experienced

Salary Range: $80,000

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Job History / Details:

KRISTY LEE CLOYD

INNOVATIVE SCIENTIST / BIOENGINEER with 5+ years of demonstrated capabilities in clinical biological systems research in the #6 university in the world (Imperial College London), with multiple projects successes including high impact publications and international exposure.

Key Skills

Project management - Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills - Supervision - Scientific writing - Working on teams with surgeons, clinical staff, biologists, statisticians, physicists - Multitasking - 5+ years working in medical sciences

Technical skills

Raman spectroscopy - Cell culture - Spectral analysis - Nanoindentation - Programming in Matlab, C, SAS - Optics - Lasers - Human tissue imaging - Electron microscopy - Fluorescence imagining - Histology

Awards

- British Heart Foundation Studentship - extremely competitive, 1 of 18 given in all of Europe

- Whitaker International Fellowship - USA wide competition, less than 20 awarded that year

Employment Experience

Imperial College London, London U.K.

Scientist, 2008-present

Working in an extremely successful and prestigious research group under the direction of Professor Molly M. Stevens, the following was achieved:

- Constructed, executed and managed world class research projects

- Work with a team of specialists from around the world to the successful completion of multiple projects under time constraints (see following page).

- Manage time and resources for these projects

- Presented the milestones and findings to governing boards and at international conferences

Imperial College London, London U.K.

Lab Instructor, 2008-2012

- Provided individual students feedback on their progress and reports

- Developed supplemental material to better instruct the subjects covered in the lab

Imperial College London, London U.K.

Subwarden, 2009-2010

- Organized events which were educational about living in London

- Provided Pastoral care to best promote students in a leading university

- Manage teams of students for various events, fund raisers and promotions

Piranha Killer Sushi, Texas

Assistant Manager, 2004-2007

- Received sales and employee appreciation awards

- Constructed training manuals and weekly schedules

- Managed separate teams so they worked together optimally

Affiliations

- Society of Experimental Biology member, U.K.

- Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining member, U.K.

- Biomedical Engineering society member, U.S.A.

- SPIE member, U.S.A.

- Delta Delta Delta alumni, U.S.A

Additionally

- Speaks Mandarin Chinese

- Traveled extensively around the world

- Comfortable in dynamic work environments

- Excellent in multidisciplinary projects

- United States Citizen

Community Service

- Habitat for Humanity

- Best Friends Animal Sanctuary

Recent Project Highlights

Utilized state of the art material characterization techniques to investigate biological systems:

- Employed Raman spectroscopy, electron microscopy, immunofluorescence, histology to examine human cardiovascular calcification with a particular emphasis on aortic valve calcification.

- Investigated the bio-molecular changes in radio frequency fused blood vessels and small intestinal tissue using Raman mapping, univariate and multivariate analysis.

- Determined and compared the changes in single cells between their live, fixed, dehydrated, and rehydrated states by incorporating micro-Raman spectroscopy and novel analytical techniques. Additionally applied these analytical techniques to look at the differences between human osteoporotic and healthy bone.

- Exposed the changes in the integrity of bone within osteogenesis imperfect mice with and without a novel stem cell treatment using micro-Raman spectroscopy.

- Determined the mechanical integrity of an oxygenator membrane using multiple techniques including nanoindentation. This was a significant contribution to the fabrication of a novel function extracorporeal oxygentator.

Publications

Cloyd KL, et al. Characterization of Porcine Aortic Valvular Interstitial Cell 'Calcified' Nodules. PLoS ONE. 2012;7:e48154.

Cloyd KL, et al. Biomolecular environments surrounding microscopic cardiovascular calcification. in preparation

Cloyd KL, et al. Raman spectral analysis exposes sex differences in a stem cell treatment of osteogenesis imperfecta. in preparation

Su L, Cloyd KL, et al. Raman Spectroscopic Evidences of Tissue Restructuring in Radiofrequency Tissue Fusion. in preparation

Hedegaard MAB, Cloyd KL, et al. Improving spectral interpretation of differences in Raman spectra of Cells and Tissue Using PLS-DA VIP scores. in preparation

Bertazzo S, Gentleman E, Cloyd KL, et al. Micro and Nano Structural and Chemical Characterization of Calcification on the Human Aortic Valve. submitted

De la Rica R, Mendoza E, Cloyd KL, et al. Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Proteins Guided by Electric Fields. submitted

Vanleene M, Saldanha Z, Cloyd KL, et al. Transplantation of human fetal blood stem cells in the osteogenesis imperfecta mouse leads to improvement in multiscale tissue properties. Blood. 2011;117:1053-60.

Oral and Poster Presentations

Poster presentation at 4th Biennial Heart Valve Biology and Tissue Engineering Meeting Mar. 2010

Oral presentation at SPEC 2010 Jun. 2010

Oral presentation at 2010 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting Oct. 2010

Poster presentation at 10th International Conference on the Chemistry & Biology of Mineralized Tissues Nov. 2010

Poster presentation at Imperial College Department of Materials Postgraduate Research Day Mar. 2011 Award: Best Biomaterials Poster

Poster presentation at UKGSEPS Research Students' Research Symposium 2011 Jul. 2011

Poster presentation at Young Researchers Meeting IChemE BESG, ESACT-UK Sept. 2011

Oral presentation at Renishaw's Inside Raman Seminar programme Sept. 2011

Oral presentation at British Heart Foundation Research Excellence Symposium Oct. 2011

2 Oral presentations at SPIE Biophotonics West 2012 Jan. 2012

Oral presentation at British Heart Foundation Research Excellence Symposium Oct. 2012

Poster presentation at Rosetrees Trust Symposium, Focus on Medical Research Oct. 2012

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