Research Intern Team Member

Elijah Barefoot Whitfield

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Education

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Major: BA in Chemistry, BA in English

GPA: 3.34, Expected Graduation: December 2022

Research Experience/Work

Research Intern, Young Innovators Program Summer

UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Chapel Hill, NC Summer 2017, Summer 2019, Summer 2022, Fall 2022

Performed research in a biological lab on pancreatic cancer causing proteins

Maintained and grew mammalian cell cultures.

Created a phage Library for substrate testing in lab.

Used protein purification on KRAS sample

Pool Cleaner-Pool Pro Inc. Summer 2016-Summer 2022

Desk Services-Granville Towers Summer 2019

Answered calls

Guided people around our website

Presentations

Whitfield, E.; Pearce, K.; Morris, M.; Church, B. Phage Display for Discovery of Tool Peptide Inhibitors for Cancer Targets KRAS and CIB1 Poster presented at Young Innovators Research Program Symposium at University of North Carolina, August 9, 2017.

Honors & Awards

Young Innovators Program Summer Research Intern Summer 2017

UNC A/B Honor Roll Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2022 Presentation for YIP Summer 2017

Local Scholarships to attend UNC

Activities

Volunteer

Relay for Life – Fundraisers 2018-2019

Dance Marathon- Fundraisers 2018-2019, 2019-2020

Carolina Blueprint Shackathon-Built shack and worked it for a week 2019

Involvement

Special Events Committee for Relay For Life

Beta Upsilon Chi Christian Fraternity-Brotherhood chair, cell group leader

Reformed University Fellowship Campus Ministry

Intraumural flag football, ultimate frisbee, sand volleyball, and softball

Intervarsity Campus Ministry-Small group leader, Exec team member

Skills

Lab bench techniques: Pipette

Centrifuge (to prepare stock solution)

Combi dispenser (to find hits with substrate)

Luminescence Machine (used for training experiments)

Excel (to plot data)

PowerPoint (for poster preparation)

Protein purification (for KRAS sample in project)

Gas chromatography (class)

Liquid chromatography (class)

Gel electrophoresis (class)

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