Assistant Baton Rouge

LEA ANTOINETTE DIXON

**** ********* ***.

Baton Rouge, LA 70805

Phone: 225-***-****

Email: abjm26@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE: To obtain a challenging and rewarding career that will profit my

employer and myself with skills and knowledge.

EDUCATION

08/30/05-12/2011

Environmental Toxicology Ph.D. Program (A.B.D.)

Southern University and A&M College

Baton Rouge, Louisiana 7081

. Major: Environmental Toxicology

07/30/2004

B.S., Biology

Southern University and A&M College

Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70813

. Major: Biology; GPA - 3.67 (Cum Laude)

LAB SKILLS

(Chemical)

ICP-OES, GC-MS, Spectrophotometry, Inverted Microscopy, Scanning Electron

Microscopy, Soil and ground water sampling, DOC studies: Turbidity, pH,

Ammonia (Buchi Distillation Apparatus), Nitrate-Nitrite (LACHAT

Autosampler), PM 2.5 Heavy Metal Extraction, Canister Cleaning and Color

Detection analyses.

(Biological)

Gel Electrophoresis, Real Time PCR, Alkaline Phosphatase Assay for stem

cell detection, Western Blotting Analysis, ELISA, Immunofluorescence, ROS

assay, Cell culture, Fish Necropsy, Transfections, Immunofluorescence

Microscopy, DNA Extraction, Affymetrix gene chips, Gene Expression

Profiling.

Software: LIMS, Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Access, and Excel, Photoshop,

Pathway Assist and Pathway Array.

Certifications/Training: Hazwoper/Hazmat (DEQL), TWIC

EMPLOYMENT

08/05-current

Southern University and A&M College

Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70813

. Graduate Laboratory Assistant

Job Responsibilities: training incoming Masters and PhD level students,

maintaining and growing prostate cancer cells, performing biochemical

analyses, wet chemical techniques, preparing solutions, preparing posters

and presentations for academic meetings.

05/07-07/09

Department of Environmental Quality Laboratory

(DEQL)

1209 Leesville Ave. Baton Rouge, La. 70802

? Environmental Lab Intern

Job Responsibilities: performing nitrate/nitrite analyses, ammonia, color,

hardness and turbidity water analyses, quality controlling all data,

entering data into LIMS, making solutions for the above analyses and

cleaning air canisters for ozone season.

08/05-current

Southern University and A&M College

Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70813

. Graduate Teaching Assistant in Chemistry/Lab Assistant

Job Responsibilities: prepared all lectures, laboratories and examinations

for students, provided laboratory guidance while students were performing

lab experiments, graded all lab experiments and examinations, provided

students with extra guidance by contact via email and or office hours,

ensured that all students were wearing all necessary protective equipment

while performing lab experiments.

AWARDS

2009 American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) MAC Award

2009 American College of Toxicology (ACT) Arthur Furst Award

2009 Julia M. Martin Winner for Doctoral Poster Presentation

2008 American Chemical Society

2008 AGEP scholar

2004 College of Sciences, student marshal

2004-present Ronald E. McNair scholar

2003-present International Mission on Medicine Scholar

2000-present National Dean List

2000-present Southern University's Dean List

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

2009 ASCB

2009 ACT

2008 ACS

2007 Iota Sigma Pi (Women in Chemistry)

2005 Beta Kappa Chi (Biology Honor Society)

2005 National Institute of Science (NIS)

*References available upon request

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