JOSEPH A. SENECAL

Department of Biotechnology Email: heuv0m@r.postjobfree.com

Assumption College Home Address:

*** ********* ****** #**** ** Bourget Court

Worcester, MA 01609-1296 North Smithfield, RI 02896

Cell Phone: 401-***-**** Home Phone 401-***-****

Career Goals

To obtain a position utilizing my scientific background

Skills

- cGMP, Animal dissection, Chemical synthesis and analysis, Light microscopy, PCR, Northern blotting, Southern blotting, Western blotting, SDS page/Gel electrophoresis, Sanger method, agar plate pouring, cell culture of BSL1 & BSL2 organisms, PCR purification, DNA sequencing, DNA sequencing purification, Conducting protein assays, Dialysis, FTIR spectroscopy, NMR spectroscopy, HPLC, sampling of raw materials, Site Directed Mutagenesis, Bioinformatics, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, French Club, French Honor Society, Biotech Club

Work Experience

Athena Dignostics, Worcester, MA March 2012- August 2012

Medical Technologist

-performing immunological, biochemical assays including PCR purification, DNA sequencing, and DNA sequencing purification

-maintain laboratory equipment and instruments

Avecia Biotechnologies, Milford, MA September 2011- January 2012

Quality Control Analyst

- Sampled raw materials

- Tested raw materials using HPLC and moisture experiments, FTIR spectroscopy, NMR spectroscopy using cGMP

- Environmental monitoring

- Validation

Natick Soldier Research, Development & Engineering Center, Natick, MA June 2008- Aug 2010

STEP Program/ Laboratory Technician

- Performed cell culturing of pathogenic bacteria

- Designed durable fibers utilizing fish lens proteins for military applications

- HPLC

- -buffer and media preparation

- Characterization of fish lens protein via gel electrophoresis, light scattering and BCA protein assays

- Developed methods to produce strong, durable fibers by controlling aggregation of fish lens protein through the use of the amino acids glycine and arginine

- Developed technique to electrospin fish lens proteins

- Media plate counting

- Identified pertinent literature to aid in experimental design

- Designed experiments to characterize polymer aggregates size and charge using light scattering and zeta potential

- Developed experiments to determine the effect of temperature on nanoparticle aggregation and size

- Conducted thermal model studies for assessing temperature abuse in meats

- Measured and analyzed growth curves of pathogenic bacteria

Education

Assumption College, Worcester, MA 2011

Bachelor of Arts: Biotechnology

Relevant Course Work

- Biology, Genetics, Anatomy, Physiology, Chemistry I &II, Organic Chemistry I & II, Molecular and Cell Biology, Physics I & II, Microbiology, Biology of Cancer, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Organic Evolution

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