Quality Assurance Assistant

SHRADDHA PARAB

Available: December'**

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318-***-**** (mobile)

Ruston, LA 71270

*************@******.***

EDUCATION

M.S. (Candidate) in Molecular Science and Nanotechnology

March'08 - November'10

Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA

Graduation: November 20, 2010

GPA: 3.85/4.0

Course Highlights: Protein Analysis, PCR Methods and Applications, Research

Methods in the Biological Sciences, Principles of Cell and Molecular

Biology, Nanofabrication by Self- Assembly, Graduate Molecular Biology,

Histology, Genomics and Bioinformatics

P.G.Diploma in Applied and Industrial Biotechnology

August'05 - July'06

South Indian Education Society College, Mumbai University, India

Stood Second in class with 70.0%

Course Highlights: Cell and Molecular Biology, Fermentation Processes,

Clinical Research, Bioinformatics, Immunology, Advanced Industrial

Engineering, Biostatistics, Food Engineering

B.Sc in Biotechnology

August'02-April'05

Ramniranjan Jhunjhunwala College, Mumbai University, India

Stood Second in University with 72.13%

Course Highlights: Immunology, Biochemistry, Virology, Microbiology,

Molecular Biology, Industrial Biotechnology, Biostatistics, Plant and

Animal Biotechnology, Genetics

WORK EXPERIENCE

Graduate Teaching Assistant

September'08 - May'10

Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana Tech University

Courses Taught: Introduction to Biology, Basic Biology techniques and

handling of instruments like microscope, spectrophotometer and pH meter

Quality Assurance (QA) Chemist

November '07 - January '08

Department of Quality Assurance, Creek Insulation, India

Responsibility: Analyzing, assessing and reporting data in observance to

GLP Standards, testing of all packaging, starting and raw materials,

labeling of all intermediate and finished products, the preparation of

solutions and reagents required for the day to day testing in the

laboratory

Quality Control Assistant

August '06 - January '07

Pharmacokinetics Department, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, India

Responsibility: Preparation of Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), critical

review of Analytical study report & Validation report, Participated in

quality improvement initiatives and reviewed monitoring reports, hands on

training on HPLC & LC-MS and thoroughly understanding the principles and

functions of the instrument under the guidance of research analyst

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Biological Sciences Laboratory, Louisiana Tech University

September'08 - August '10

Project Title: Effects of mechanical shear on tissue engineered constructs

cultured on three

dimensional alginate hydrogels

Advisor: Dr. David Mills

Biochemistry Laboratory, South Indian Education Society College

January'06 - June'06

Project Title: Screening for Cholesterol Reductase Activity

Advisor: Dr. Shubhangi Khedkar

LAB SKILLS

Cell culture techniques

> Tissue processing and sectioning using Microtome, Paraffin embedding

> Cell viability, freezing of cells, cell proliferation and culture based

assays, staining,

> Working with mouse osteoblast cells and stem cells

> Isolation of Fibrochondrocytes extracted from cow head

Molecular Biology techniques

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR), Agarose gel electrophoresis,

Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE), Enzyme linked Immunosorbent

assay (ELISA), DNA, RNA and Protein isolation and Purification, Southern

blotting, Western blotting, DNA fingerprinting, DNA Sequencing

Immunohistochemistry

Immunohistochemistry, confocal and fluorescent microscopy

Biochemistry techniques

Enzyme kinetics, Protein Assay, Alkaline Phosphatase Assay, Pico Green

Assay, Thin layer chromatography (TLC)

Instruments

High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), Liquid Chromatography/ Mass

Spectroscopy (LC/MS), Double beam UV/VIS Spectrophotometer, Digital Ultra

Centrifuge, Nanodrop Spectrophotometer, Fluorescence Microplate reader,

Nanoenabler and Nebulizers

GRANTS

Applied and Natural Science (ANS) Graduate Student Research Mini- Grant,

2008-2009

AWARDS

Golden Key International Honour Society - Outstanding Academic Performance

COMPUTER SKILLS

Molecular Operating System, Rasmol, Chemsketch, HTML, MS-Office, End Note,

Windows 98/XP/Vista

REFERENCES

Dr. David Mills

Assistant professor,

Biological Sciences/ IFM

Louisiana Tech University

Ruston, LA 71270, USA

Phone no. 318-***-****

Email: *******@******.***

Mr. James White

Instructor/ Lab Supervisor,

Department of Biological Sciences,

Louisiana Tech University,

Ruston, LA 71270, USA

Phone no. 318-***-****

Email: ******@******.***

Dr. William C. Wolf

Assistant professor,

Department of Biological Sciences,

Louisiana Tech University,

Ruston, LA 71270, USA

Phone no. 318-***-****

Email: ******@******.***

Dr. Usha Mukundan

Head & Principal, Dept of Biotechnology,

R.J. College,

Ghatkopar, India

Email: *********@*******.***

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