Assistant Training

Louis Melendez

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Objective

A position at the Tri-Core Reference Laboratories

Education

BS in Biology

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico

High Honors Graduate of May 2009

Grade Point Average: 3.55 (on 4.0 grading scale)

New Mexico Tech Scholar

Advanced Biology Courses

Molecular Biology and Lab Genetics and Lab

Microbiology and Lab Environmental Toxicology

Advanced Cellular Biology: Cancer Biology Physiology and Anatomy I,II

Graduate Level Courses Relevant Chemistry Courses

Virology and Lab Organic Chemistry I,II +Lab

Advanced Virology Biochemistry

Employment

6/2007-Present Research Assistant for Dr. Scott Shors, Ph.D

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM

Partook in various independent viral research programs, using a broad spectrum of viral

laboratory techniques: cell and tissue culture, viral plaque assays, SDS PAGE, western blotting,

immune co-precipitation, and silver stain protein detection. This work was done independently,

while also instructing new grad students and research assistants in the techniques that were being

used within the laboratory.

6/2007-Present Weight Training Instructor: beginning, advanced, and women’s

New Mexico Tech Community College, Socorro, NM

The instructor of three different weight training classes at the New Mexico Tech gym. On

average there were 60 students each semester, and the class was responsible for college credit.

Additional Experience

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Besides the individual lab work done with Professor Shors, school labs included hands on

work along with formal written reports. Molecular lab included both western and southern blots,

polymerase chain reaction, and restriction enzyme ligation. Both transformation and

transduction methods were used in integrating a E. coli genome with different protein and using

green fluorescent protein as the reporter gene, along with lac operon for positive and negative

controls. In Microbiology I was familiarized with both gram negative and positive bacteria.

Along with incubation techniques, which used different types of media for growth. The final

project consisted of a flask with various types of bacteria. In which the student had to identify

the unknown bacteria within.

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