Angela McQuillan
Philadelphia PA 19146
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Work Experience: Lab Manager
Thomas Jefferson University
-Overseeing daily activities in a laboratory of 12 employees. Responsible for training
new employees and supervising certain projects focusing on cancer research.
-Responsible for maintaining all lab equipment, inventory, purchasing and organization.
-Writing animal use protocols and keeping the lab in compliance with IACUC
requirements.
-In charge of budgeting and accounting for three R01 grants along with supplemental
funding.
-Event planning for extracurricular team building activities.
Lab Technician
Thomas Jefferson University
2005-2008
-Cell culture, aseptic technique, subcloning cells, protein purification from 293 EBNA
cells, keeping a bank of all frozen cell lines.
-SDS-PAGE gels, western blotting using HRP and infra-red technology.
-Maintaining two mouse colonies, PCR and genotyping.
-Injecting tumor xenografts into mouse models, dissection and imaging of mice using
infra-red technology.
-Microinjection of zebrafish with morpholinos, maintenance and imaging of zebrafish.
-Frozen sectioning of animal tissues, staining of slides and immunohistochemistry
-Graphic design and illustration of all figures for publication.
Cell Banking Associate
App Tec
August 2004-December 2004
-Aseptic Technique, cell Culture, creating cGMP cell line banks for clients
-Familiar with SOPs and documentation.
Summer Intern
Lifecell Corporation
2001
-Observing the operations of the R&D section of a company that specializes in
regenerative tissue matrix products.
Education: Bachelor of Science, Biology
University of Texas at Austin
2004
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting
Tyler School of Art, Temple University
2010
Publications: Zoeller JJ, McQuillan A, Whitelock J, Ho SY, Iozzo RV. “A central function for
perlecan in skeletal muscle and cardiovascular development.” J. Cell Biol. 2008 Apr
21;181(2):381-94
Bix G, Iozzo RA, Woodall B, Burrows M, McQuillan A, Campbell S, Iozzo RV. “Endorepellin, the C-
terminal angiostatic module of perlecan, enhances collagen-platelet responses via the
alpha2beta1-integrin receptor.” Blood 2007 May1;109(9):3745-8.
Goldoni S, Iozzo RA, Kay P, Campbell S, McQuillan A, Agnew C, Zhu JX, Keene DR, Reed CC, Iozzo RV.
“A soluble ectodomain of LRIG1 inhibits cancer cell growth by attenuating basal and
ligand dependent EGFR activity.” Oncogene 2007 Jan18;26(3):368-381.
Published -FEBS Journal vol.277 no.19 3864-3875. 2010.
Scientific -Molecules and Cells, 503-513. 2009
Illustrations: -Journal of Cell Biology, vol.185 no.4 743-754. 2009
-The Journal of Biological Chemistry vol. 284 117**-*****. 2009
-International Journal of Cancer vol.123-****-****. 2008
-The Journal of Biological Chemistry vol.283 213**-*****. 2008
-Biochemistry vol.43-111**-******. 2008
Achievements: -Designed the logo for the International Society for Matrix Biology, 2008.
-Five Years of Service award, Thomas Jefferson University, 2010.
Computer Skills: -Mac and PC platform
-Microsoft Office
-Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Lightroom, Acrobat
-Sigmaplot, Scion Image
-Leica, Zeiss and Li-cor imaging software
References: Sharon L. Egleston
Education Co-ordinator for Graduate Program in Cell and Developmental Biology, Thomas Jefferson
University
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Silvia Goldoni PhD
Previous Faculty member at Thomas Jefferson University
Research Scientist at Imperial College of London
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Simone Buraschi PhD
Post-doctoral Fellow
Thomas Jefferson University
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