John M. McLaughlin, PhD

New York, NY :: 917-***-****

acya6l@r.postjobfree.com

Education

Scientific

Communication

and Writing

Experience

PhD, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology CUNY Graduate Center, November 2016

New York, NY

BS, Biology, Minor: Chemistry

The College of New Jersey, May 2009

Ewing, NJ

NYC Science Communications (NYC SciComm) 2016-present

(NYCSciComm.org / Twitter: @NYCSciComm)

Scizzle Science Blog 2014-present

(www.myscizzle.com/blog/category/john-mclaughlin/) Teaching

Experience The Human Barcode: The Biology of Personal Identification (Biol 107), Fall 2016 Research

Experience

Hunter College, CUNY Adjunct Lecturer Fall 2010 - Present Hunter College, CUNY PhD mentor: Dr. Diana Bratu

• Writer and communicator with biology research background in genetics, imaging, molecular, developmental, and RNA biology.

• Scientist experienced in simplifying and explaining complex scientific topics in written, verbal, and visual forms.

• Educator with extensive teaching record in both lecture and laboratory courses ranging in level from high school to college undergraduates. Summary

2011-2016

• Administrative manager of NYC SciComm: organize leadership board meetings

• Network students and professionals working in the sciences to pursue careers in medical communications

• First workshop hosted medical writers from Axon Communications, Healthcare Consultancy Group, Medical Exchange International

• Regular contributor to Scizzle science blog

• Writing addressed to general science audience and life science researchers

• Writing experience on diverse topics: epigenetics and metabolism, use of p-values, interview with Princeton faculty, among others

• Samples available at above link or by request

• Thesis project: role of small silencing microRNAs in egg development of the fly D. melanogaster

• Expertise in RNA, developmental biology, genetic engineering technologies

• Led several independent projects, mentored undergraduate researchers, and presented research at national and international conferences

• Created and presented lectures for new biology course (48 non-biology majors)

• Original PPT lectures on science of personal identity: DNA testing, human skin development and fingerprint analysis

Scientific

Poster

Presentations

(selected)

Technical Skills

Multimedia

Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Powerpoint, Excel)

Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)

Endnote

Web design, programming, social media

HTML5

Cascading Style Sheet (CSS)

Python

Twitter, Facebook, Instagram

Post-transcriptional regulation of the anterior determinant, bicoid, during Drosophila oogenesis

EMBL Conference: The Complex Life of mRNA - 2016, Heidelberg, Germany Translational control of the anterior determinant, bicoid, during Drosophila oogenesis Translational Control Conference - 2014, Cold Spring Harbor, NY Translational control of bicoid mRNA during Drosophila oogenesis Keystone Conference: RNA Silencing - 2014, Seattle, WA Publications

McLaughlin JM and Bratu DP. Drosophila melanogaster Oogenesis: An Overview. In: Bratu DP, ed. Drosophila Oogenesis: Methods and Protocols. New York, NY: Humana Press; 2015:1-20.

Catrina IE, Bayer LV, Yanez G, McLaughlin JM, Malaczek K, Bagaeva E, Marras SA, and Bratu DP. The temporally controlled expression of Drongo, the fruit fly homolog of AGFG1, is achieved in female germline cells via P-bodies and its localization requires functional Rab11. RNA Biology. 2016; 13: 1117-1132. Awards

John M. McLaughlin, PhD

New York, NY :: 917-***-****

acya6l@r.postjobfree.com

Beatrice Goldstein Konheim Graduate Scholarship in the Life Sciences 2014 Awarded annually to graduate student for excellence in scholarship, in memory of former Hunter College Dean Beatrice Konheim ($500). CUNY Graduate Center Dissertation Fellowship 2013

Highly competitive fellowship awarded to best written proposals for enhanced funding of PhD thesis research ($22,000).

Research Techniques Workshop Fall 2016

Seminar in MicroRNAs and Development (Biol 470) 2013 - 2014 Introductory Biology Laboratory (Biol 100 and 102) Fall 2010 - Summer 2016 Teaching

Experience

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• Trained 10 novice high school students in biology research techniques

• Students gave oral presentations on these techniques for Hunter biology department

• Created and presented original lectures on piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs)

• Topics included piRNA biogenesis, genome surveillance and germline development

• Led undergraduate laboratoy sections (24 students each)

• Exercises ranged from molecular biology techniques to organismal biology

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