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Dear employer

Hi my name is Woo Cheol (Ken) Shin and I m a college graduate from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry. I am writing this letter to you in the interest of being recruited for laboratorial position as posted in the career website. You may find that my experience in laboratorial techniques including bacterial transformation ELISA and various assay development and chromatography quite valuable for the positions that I am applying to.

First I would like to make it clear that the Undergraduate Research program listed in the resume was an independent work from the school program. The professor personally hired me and paid me with her own research grant. I chose to do this instead of an internship offer I received from a pharmaceutical company. This is because I knew that the internship would involve mostly menial tasks such as cleaning and maintaining. On the contrary the work with my professor aimed at a specific research topic and goal which involved thinking researching and learning contemporary research techniques.

To summarize my laboratory experiences I would like to tell you about some achievements and advances I have made. First I have successfully generated a fusion protein by attaching a Green Fluorescent Protein to a gene in C. Elegans that correlates to X-linked dyskeratosis (K01G5.5/DCK1). This work has been done through the methods of bacterial transformation a method that is very popular among research involving any sort of gene expression. Another advance I ve made was optimizing the method of isolating CNBP of the c-myc system through probing for the G-quadruplex structure that holds the protein. This is a groundbreaking research as purifying transcription factor has always been very difficult.

I fully understand that working in a research lab doesn t mean just lab techniques. One must know how to plan the work beforehand by researching online through NCBI PDB etc and reading various research papers. I can assure you that I have ample experience in that as well. Also I would like to add that all the lab works have been done by the regulation of GMP and SOP stressing heavily on quality of work. I have also been taught about drug developmental process used in industries intensively in drug discovery course.

I have been working consistently every summer in paid-jobs doing research and teaching children living in ghetto neighborhood. My works have not gone unrecognized as Americorps have awarded me with scholarship for teaching children and my professor have awarded me with a RPI-certified recommendation bidding me luck in my job search. I have never been idle as I have motivated myself to spend all summers working paid jobs. I am a strong team-player for many times I had to cooperate with other teachers researchers professors postdoc and even CEO. I do hope that all these traits are highly desired for your future employee.

I m looking forward to an interview if my background interests you. The reference contact information will be available at the interview. I am sure we will be able to determine a mutually available time for either a person-to-person interview or a phone interview. I look forward to your reply and thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely Woo Cheol (Ken) Shin

Bachelor of Science Biochemistry and Minor Management

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Woo Cheol (Ken) Shin

6 Jefferson Ave. Tenafly NJ 07670

Phone: 201-***-****

Email: *****@****.***.***

Woo Cheol (Ken) Shin

Address: 6 Jefferson Ave. Tenafly NJ 07670 / 422 Sand Creek Rd. Apt 220. Albany NY 12205

Phone: 201-***-****

E-mail: *****@****.***.***

Objective

To be recruited for a permanent laboratorial position through which the company may benefit from my experience and I may benefit from expansion of my expertise.

Education

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy NY

Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry

Minor in Management

Skills

• ELISA

• PCR

• Primer Design

• Vector NTI

• Mutagenesis

• Bacterial Transformation

• C. Elegans DNA Extraction

• Various Chromatography

• Cell Culture

• RFLP

• SDS-PAGE Electrophoresis

• Agarose Gel Electrophoresis

• Circular Dichroism Spec

• Mass Spec

• Spectrophotometer

• Fluorescent in situ Hybridization

Relevant Experience

Undergraduate Research Summer 2009 Present

• Isolating transcription factors via probing for G-quadruplex structures in promoter regions of c-myc ILPR etc.

• ELISA biological assay development centrifuge filtration gel electrophoresis circular dichroism spec etc.

Molecular Biology Lab Fall 2009

• Expression of K01G5.5 gene of Caenorhabditis elegans in Escherichia coli via transformation observed through GFP fusion.

Biotransformation PCR cell culture gel electrophoresis etc.

Drug Discovery Lab Fall 2008

ELISA assay development etc.

Organic Chemistry Lab fall 2007-Spring 2008

Organic compound synthesis mass spec etc.

**All lab work done under GMP SOP and other protocols.

Leadership Experience

Break-dance Club RPI Sept 2007 May 2009

Position: President

• Founder of the club managed and organized the club to run

Mexico Mission Group Los Angeles Jul 2006 Aug 2006

Position: Staff

• Organized Events Raised Funds

Alpha Chapter of Theta Xi RPI Fall 2008

Position: Scholarship Assistant

• Organized academic data study session other academic assisting tasks.

Work Experience

Fedex Ground South Hackensack NJ Aug 2010 Now

Position: Package Handler

• Handle packages to appropriate destination vans.

Kids Corporation Newark NJ Summer 2008

Position: Teacher Assistance

• Supervised elementary children and taught science.

Righteous Consulting Co. South Korea Summer 2007

Position: Teacher/Supervisor

• Supervised and taught English to children from South Korea

• Done numerous interpretation for all staff in the camp for scheduling and reservations

Stock Room RPI Campus (Work Study) Fall 2006 Spring 2007

Position: Assistant

• Managed and organized chemicals and equipments used for research

• Received orders input information on computer.

Other Skills

Language

• Korean as first language; English as second language; and Japanese as learned language.

Business

• Economics Accounting Finance Operations and Management.

Microsoft

• Word Excel Power Point Access etc.

References available upon request.

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