Research Technician

Jordan Brooker

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EDUCATION

Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY May 2015

Bachelor of Arts in Biology and Computer Science

GPA 3.09/4.0

EXPERIENCE

Animal Services Technician S eptember 2015 present MPI Research, Inc., Mattawan, MI

● Learning small animal husbandry and dosing techniques

● Gaining experience in a professional lab environment Research Technician May 2015 August 2015

Biology and Computer Science Departments , Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY

● Finished transcriptome analysis of the wood frog, Rana sylvatica

● Identified single nucleotide polymorphisms among different populations Senior Thesis Researcher August 2014 May 2015

Biology Department, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY

● Established a bioinformatics pipeline for studying a wood frog transcriptome using Python and gene alignment tools, such as BLAST and ClustalW

DREU Research Fellow May 2014 August 2014

Computer Science Department, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

● Developed bioinformatics Python programs for converting DNA sequences into numerical data

● Work published in Bioinformatics in 2015 (see publication below) Independent Study Researcher January 2014 May 2014 Biology Department, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY

● Became familiar with genetic and bioinformatic lab methods, such as RNA extraction, PCR, gel electrophoresis, and using online genetic sequence databases and tools

● Worked with A iptasia pallida , a model organism for corals PUBLICATIONS

Wei Chen, Xitong Zhang, Jordan Brooker, Hao Lin, Liqing Zhang, and Kuo Chen Chou. PseKNC General: a cross platform package for generating various modes of pseudo nucleotide compositions. Bioinformatics (2015) 31

(1): 119 120.

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