Molecular Biology, Microscopy, Antibodies, Data analysis
Resume:
Kelly Eckenrode, PhD ***********@*****.***
I am a molecular microbiologist with extensive experience in both wet and dry lab environments. I am an expert in traditional and innovative microbiology, molecular biology and microscopy. Also, I have a strong background in building and analyzing computational databases. Seeking to leverage my expertise in microbiology to forward-thinking, mission-driven research.
EXPERIENCE
CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH—POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health, Dr. Levi Waldron 2019 - 2023 Designed and curated a bacterial physiology database in R with more than 180,000 data bacterial annotations to be used for microbe set enrichment analysis https://waldronlab.io/bugphyzz/; Experience with single cell multimodal data. HARVARD T.H. CHAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH—POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW Department of Biostatistics, Dr. Curtis Huttenhower 2021 - 2023 Discovered bioactive molecule candidates from an IBD protein database for experimental validation using microbiology techniques. This is a dual Postdoctoral Fellowship with Dr. Levi Waldron.
CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK BROOKLYN COLLEGE—PHD STUDENT Department of Biology, Dr. Nicolas Biais 2015 - 2019 Studied the physiological response due to a biophysical event in bacteria. Fluorescence, confocal and SEM microscopy, Quantitative image analysis (FIJI), Gibson Assembly, RNA-seq, Microfluidics, Bacterial transformation, Microbiological culturing, Media preparation, ELISA, Western blotting, Mentoring
HARVARD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL—RESEARCH TECHNICIAN Department of Systems Biology, Dr. Angela DePace 2008 - 2012 Exploring the role of transcriptional genome architecture in early embryonic patterning. Fluorescence in-situ hybridizations, PCR (traditional and Gateway), DNA gels, Fruit fly husbandry, 2-photon microscopy, presentations, training new lab members HARVARD UNIVERSITY—RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering, Dr. Peng Ying 2010 - 2012 Design in situ fluorescence probes using DNA origami for Drosophila species, Method development
EDUCATION
CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
PhD, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology 2012 - 2019 HARVARD UNIVERSITY EXTENSION SCHOOL
Graduate course work in Bioengineering 2008 - 2011 UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, BOSTON
B.S Biology 2006 - 2008
HAGERSTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE
A.S Psychology 2004 - 2006
PUBLICATIONS
11 peer-reviewed articles with 3 first author papers, https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HOEgY9oAAAAJ&hl=en SKILLS
Molecular Biology
Quantitative Microscopy
Microbiology
Communication and
Mentoring
Database creation
Manuscript preparation
AWARDS
Junior Award for Microbiology,
Eastern New York Chapter of
ASM
CUNY Macaulay Honors
College, Instructional
Technology Fellowship
Howard Hughes Cold Spring
Harbor Course Fellowship
Estelle, ’36, and James T.
Ramey Scholarship
American Society of
Microbiology, Travel Grant
Wikipedia-athon Science
Writer Grant
Center for the Advanced Study
of Education Grant
99% Conference by Behance
Award
CUNY Science Scholarship
2012
LANGUAGES
R programming
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