Brandon E. Grant

**** ******** ***. ** *********, Oh 44685

ac7ziq@r.postjobfree.com 330-***-****

Education YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY – Youngstown, OH

College of Arts and Sciences

Bachelors of Science August 2007

Masters of Biology. August 2012

Major: Biological Sciences, Concentration in Genetics

Dean’s List (2003)

Certification in handling of Alpha and Beta ray Radioactive Material (2007)

Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society (2009)

Sigma Xi Research Society (2009)

Certification in Anesthetizing Laboratory Animals (2010)

Lifeguard Instructor, Lifeguard, O2, AED, First Aid (2012-present)

ASQ Certification- CQT- Certified Quality technician, CCT- Certified calibration technician- In progress

Employment Experience:

OMEGA Laboratories Inc. August 2012- November 2018

Screening Chemist

Perform Drug Toxicology Screening on hair and oral fluids by Enzyme-linked Immuno Assay by way of CLIA regulations and Standard operating procedure, SOP

Perform Drug Toxicology Screening on international hair samples using chip micro array analysis by Randox instrumentation

Data input and analysis of drug screening results into LIMS, an Information Management System

Prepare Drug screening calibrators and reagents for production use

Team leader in performing maintenance and precision calibrations on all screening lab instruments for quality assurance, qa/qc

Team Trainer

Lab Accesioner

Accesion hair samples and process chains of custody’s to receive samples for toxicology screening in accordance with Omega Labs SOP

YSU Ward Beecher- Youngstown, OH August 2010-August 2012

Lab Manager Assistant

Prepare budget reports for the Biology Department using the Microsoft Excel program.

Deliver materials and re-stock corresponding Labs

Dispose of Chemical, Biological, and radioactive Waste in regulation with Youngstown State

Career Related Experience:

YSU BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT- Youngstown, OH August, 2010- December, 2012

Lab Manager Assistant

Prepare budget reports for the Biology Department using the Microsoft Excel program.

Stock individual Labs with necessary equipment

Dispose of Chemical Waste in regulation with Youngstown State

YSU BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT- Youngstown, OH June, 2010- August, 2010

Research Assistantship

Construction of MHR1 knockout and shutoff vectors for replication analysis

Sequence MHR1in shutoff vector

Create shutoff vector with a selectable marker in place of the MHR1 gene to remove phenotype from yeast genome

YSU BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT- Youngstown, OH April, 2010

QUEST

“Constructing MHR1 containing plasmids as a tool for understanding Mitochondrial DNA replication structures”

YSU BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT- Youngstown, OH August 2007-December 2010

Graduate Thesis- Independent Laboratory Research

Master’s Thesis on “The role of MHR1p in the formation and resolution of mitochondrial DNA replication structures in the yeast Saccharomyces Cerevisiae.”

YSU BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT- Youngstown, OH June, 2008- August, 2008

Research Assistantship

“The role of MHR1p in the formation and resolution of mitochondrial DNA replication structures in the yeastSaccharomyces cerevisiae.”

Amplify and clone the MHR1 gene from Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Construct Inducible expression vectors as well as a recombinant sequence

YSU BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT- Youngstown, OH Jan 2008-May 2008

Graduate Dependent Laboratory Research

The growth and maintenance of MRC-5 Hybridomas in Level 2 Sterile Hood environment.

YSU BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT- Youngstown, OH January-May 2006 & August 2006-July 2007

Undergraduate Laboratory Research.

Completed Undergraduate Laboratory Research in molecular biology and genetics, developing and executing skills including:

Genetic research on Mitochondrial and Chloroplast DNA of the American Elm, Ulmus Americana

Sequence reactions of mitochondrial and chloroplast DNA and analysis with GenBank for publication

Molecular Biology research on plasmid mini-prep and vector research on bacterial cells and their ability to show resistance to Ampicilin

Restriction digest and gel electrophoresis on Lambda DNA

Assisting and overseeing a lab assistant’s duties in executing protocols in a laboratory setting with analysis of sequencing results

YSU BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT-Youngstown, OH June 2006-August 2006

The Ohio State University Glenn-Stokes Internship

Collected leaf samples of Ulmus Rubra and Ulmus Americana at Zoar Valley (Buffalo, New York)

Nuclear DNA leaf extraction and data analysis of DNA sequences to show differences in Internal Transcribed Spacer Regions over geographical differences using the CTAB method

Used Polymerase Chain Reaction to amplify the rRNA Internal Transcribed Spacer Region

Cloned multiple cells that contain the Internal Transcribed Spacer region

Plasmid Isolation of rRNA Internal Transcribed Spacer Region

Relevant Related

Coursework

Genetics

Adv. Molecular Genetics

Adv. Eukaryotic Genetics

Adv. Immunology with lab

Adv. Biochemistry

Protein Analysis

General Skills:

Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Powerpoint

Mega6

GeneDoc

Chromaslite

NCBI Blast software

LIMS

Volunteer Activities/Clubs:

SOFT (Society of forensic toxicology)

Quest- April 2010

Sigma Xi 2009-Present

References:

Available upon request

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