Assistant High School

Cory O’Reilly

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Personal Profile

I’m a 22 year old about to graduate from the University of New Hampshire with a BS degree in Bio Medical Sciences.

Throughout my degree program I’ve discovered that biotechnology is an exciting and growing field. As my strengths

are sound in biology and technology I feel I’d be a good fit in any application in medicine, agriculture or other fields

that require biotechnologists. My particular skills come in the laboratory where my degree has given me a solid

foundation which allows me to perform many identification, culture, and growth techniques for bacterial, fungal and

viral pathogens. My ideal career would be one that entails research and development of biotechnical testing methods.

I enjoy working in the lab and being able to work with pathogens, hopefully garnering the ability develop the most

effective test equipment to not only identify the pathogens with ease and precision, but also treat the infections and

get the patient cured or into treatment as quickly as possible. I do enjoy working in the virology lab and doing cell

culture, so a career utilizing my skills in the lab as well as my knowledge technological savvy would be ideal.

Education

University of New Hampshire –Durham, NH

BS Medical Microbiology, May 2013

Natick High School – Natick, Ma

High School Diploma, 2009

Experience

Some of the labs in which I have worked during the course of my degree include general biology and chemistry,

organic chemistry, and labs in fields such as pathogenic microbiology and virology, where I worked with specific

pathogens and got hands on experience as to how to identify and grow bacterial and viral pathogens. Under the

tutelage of some of the best professors in the Northeast I was able to gain valuable hands on laboratory

experience, and the lab is where I feel I do my best work. I have also worked as a teaching assistant in a general

microbiology lab course where I aided undergraduate students in performing simple microbial testing methods as

well as introducing them to some of the methods used in more advanced labs against pathogens that they would

encounter should they choose to further their education in microbiology. All of the laboratory experience coupled

with the extensive background established in medical microbiology in the classroom provides a solid base for a

career in the field of microbiology

Teaching assistant in a General Microbiology course assisted students in performing microbiological testing

techniques and identifying microorganisms based on their characteristics shown through the microbial testing.

Research assistant in Aaron Margolin’s Virology lab at the University of New Hampshire, working with polio virus

and performing neutral red plaque assays to figure out the viral titer which yields no plaques.

Skills

Performing viral and bacterial assays; dilutions; cellular, bacterial and viral culture/identification, pipetting.

cell culture in open and closed systems using BGMK and HEK cells

My senior year I worked as a research assistant with Stephanie Tornberg, a Masters student at UNH where we

researched the viral titer of Polio virus by enumerating the virus and running neutral red plaque assays using

different dilutions.

Preparing minimal essential media, neutral red agar, nutrient agar

Trypsinization and cell splitting

Neutral red plaque assays.

Use of CO2 incubator and autoclave

Vacuum filtration

Experimental design in microbiology and virology

Activities

Coaching

Refereeing

Umpiring

golf, hockey, baseball

Music is my first love. Drumming is a passion

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