Jiajuan(Judy) Xiong

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SPECIATIES & EXPERTISE

• Food and pharmaceutical microbiology

• Aseptic handling of microbiological articles, tests, and fermentation etc

• All of the compendial microbiological tests including BET and antimicrobial testing in USP, EP, JP and

Chinese Pharmacopeia

• Risk assessment of microbiological attribute in aseptic processing and utilization of rapid methods.

• Evaluation and validation of rapid microbiological methods

• Container/closure integrity test

• Validation and routine maintenance of the isolator for sterility tests

• Bacterial identification with phenotyping and genotyping

• DNA and RNA manipulation (extraction, purification, PCR, gene transformation, gene expression and

cloning)

• Mammalian cell culture

PERSONAL SUMMARY

• A creative bilingual professional with sound experience in pharmaceutical microbiology and food

microbiology

• Excellent organizational and planning skills

• Proficient in prioritizing and completing tasks in a timely manner, yet flexible to multitask when necessary

• A team player who is attentive to detail and able to work in a fast paced environment

• Enjoys challenging new projects and processes, strong work ethic, be self motivated, and able to pick up new

techniques quickly

• Customer focused experience with excellent oral and written communication skills and MS Office skills

WORK EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant (May 2006 – Aug 2009)

North Carolina State University, Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition sciences; Raleigh, NC

• Studied the functions and significance of capsule of Campylobacter spp. in its survival at stress

conditions and chick colonization by constructing capsule mutants using gene natural transformation

• Evaluated rapid microbiological methods in detection and identification of food environmental

monitoring, water borne microorganisms and microbial ID.

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• Performed molecular typing and sub-typing of foodborne disease-causing bacteria by PFGE,

MLST, and 16S rRNA gene sequencing, as well as phenotyping

• Performed comparative study on the survival of animal-derived foodborne pathogens in raw

and pasteurized milk

Senior Microbiologist (April 2000 – April 2005)

AstraZeneca International; Wuxi, Jiangsu, China

• Performed validation and trained personal of KTA and KCA in endotoxin testing for sterile

products.

• Led and managed different projects including container-closure integrity test for sterile

products, validation of the decontamination process ( Vaporized Peracetic Acid) for the isolator for sterility

test, evaluation of antimicrobial effectiveness of different disinfectants enabling optimal use in clean rooms,

validation of aseptic processing by media fills, validation of the compendial tests for sterility, and LAL test.

• Wrote SOPs, validation/revalidation protocol.

• Led non-conformance (contamination, OOS, etc) investigation.

• Conducted technical training for technicians responsible for compendia tests, operation and

sterilization validation of isolators & sterilizer.

• Executed microbiological identification using phenotyping methods.

• Performed cGMP auditing in microbiological laboratory and aseptic processing lines.

Technologist (microbiology) (July 1994 – March 2000)

Pfizer (Pharmacia-Upjohn); Wuxi, Jiangsu, China

• Carried out compendial tests including sterility test, LAL test for aseptically filled oncology

products

• Executed environmental monitoring for aseptic processing

• Performed validation and revalidation of aseptic processing, sterilization processing and WFI

systems.

• Performed microbiological tests for WFI, PW, and raw materials

EDUCATION

M.S. Food Microbiology and Biotechnology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 08/2007 -

12/2009

B.S. Biology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu China 09/1990 –

06/1994

AWARDS AND HONORS

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• Outstanding employee awarded by the Chairman of Board of AstraZeneca (2003)

• AstraZeneca Certificate of training for aseptic processing at Södertälje, Sweden, 02/2001

• Associate editor of the book titled Quality Control System and Validation Techniques at Microbiology

Laboratories in Current Pharmaceutical Industry (ISBN 7-81072-506-8). Xihe Medical Science University

Press. Beijing, China. 2004. (In Chinese)

• Trainer of pharmaceutical microbiology organized by Chinese State Food and Drug Administration, 2004-

2005.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• American Society of Microbiology (ASM)

• Parenteral Drug Association (PDA)

• International Association of Food Protection (IAFP)

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