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Kelly Eckenrode, PhD ad3pl8@r.postjobfree.com

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