J.D., Ph.D. with Experience in Intellectual Property and Health Law

Monika Tzoneva, J.D., Ph.D.

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LEGAL EXPERIENCE

WASHINGTON STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE | Jul. 2010 – Sep 2010 | Seattle, WA

Researched issues in areas including hospital administration, employment law and intellectual property; interviewed clients; wrote client memos and internal memos.

LAW SCHOOL ACTIVITIES: Mock Trial Competition 2009, 2010; Giles Sutherland Rich Moot Court Competition in Intellectual Property Law; Tech Law Society, Vice-President; Health Law Club, General Director; Nontraditional Law Student Society, Member-at-Large.

SELECTED BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

SCHOOL OF MOLECULAR BIOSCIENCES, WASHINGTON STATE UNIV.| 2006-2009 | Pullman, WA. Used whole-genome microarray analysis and computational biology to identify a complete set of genes regulated by the level of fatty acid desaturation in C. elegans.

DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON| 1997-2004 | Seattle, WA.

Mapped and cloned C. elegans unc-58 gene and found that it encodes a member of the TWIK potassium channel family. Identified the insecticide endosulfan as a novel direct blocker of the UNC-58 channel.

ROSENSTIEL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER, BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | 1994-1996 | Waltham, MA. Cloned the E. chrysanthemum homolog of the E. coli recJ exonuclease. Used the resulting alignment to predict functionally important regions and to model the three-dimensional structure of the RecJ protein.

EDUCATION

BAR ADMISSION | Sitting for Washington State Bar Examination, July 2012

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF LAW | Seattle, WA

Juris Doctor, 2012 | GPA 3.29

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, DEPT. OF GENOME SCIENCES| Seattle, WA

Ph.D., Genetics, 2004

BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Waltham, MA

Bachelor of Science, Biology, 1996| summa cum laude with honors in biology | GPA: 3.86

Selected Honors: Phi Beta Kappa; Wien International Scholarship; Award for Excellence in Research; Howard Hughes Undergraduate Research Fellowship

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT AND VOLUNTEER WORK

CHARITY FOUNDATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S CLUB | 2005 - 2006 | Sofia, Bulgaria Designed a variety of programs aimed at adapting the work of the International Women’s Club to the Bulgarian cultural context. Organized conferences of non-profit and government organizations on problems facing parentless children. Coordinated the compliance of IWC activities with government requirements.

FOUNDATION FOR INT’L UNDERSTANDING THROUGH STUDENTS| 1999-2012 |BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEMBER | May 2010 – June 2011 | Seattle, WA. Participated in the development of the FIUTS strategic plan. Networked with FIUTC community volunteers and host families. Organized the Annual International Cultural Show. Coordinated event sign-ups and volunteer meetings.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

LANGUAGES | fluent: English, Bulgarian, Russian | working knowledge: Italian, German

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES | C, C++, JAVA, R

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS | PLEASE SEE NEXT PAGE

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

A. K. Walker, R. L. Jacobs, J. L. Watts, V. Rottiers, K. Jiang, D. M. Finnegan, T. Shioda, M. Hansen, F. Yang, L. J. Niebergall, Dennis E. Vance, M. Tzoneva, A. C. Hart & A. M. Naar. A Conserved SREBP-1/Phosphatidylcholine Feedback Circuit Regulates Lipogenesis in Metazoans. Cell 147, 840-852 (2011)

Harris, J., M. Lowden, I. Clejan, M. Tzoneva, J.H. Thomas, J. Hodgkin, and S. Ahmed. 2006. Mutator phenotype of C. elegans DNA damage checkpoint mutants. Genetics 174, 601-616 (2006)

S. E. Peterson, A. E. Stellwagen, S. J. Diede, M. S. Singer, Z. W. Haimberger, C. O. Johnson, M. Tzoneva, & D. E. Gottschling The function of a stem-loop in telomerase RNA is linked to the DNA repair protein Ku. Nature Genetics 27, 64-67 (2001)

Tzoneva, M.; Thomas, T.H. UNC-58 is an unusual C. elegans potassium channel of the TWIK family (in preparation)

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