Helped plan and execute graduate program’s annual retreat, modeled on scientific conferences including: keynote presentation, poster presentations and panel discussions.

Responsibilities included:

• Escorting external speakers
• Recruitment and management of student volunteers
• Creation of electronic feedback form for poster judges

• Classes in bioinformatics, statistical modeling, machine learning, advanced genetics, and genomics
• Implemented/developed data processing and analysis pipelines for next-gen sequencing and SNP-array data
• Effective written and oral communication of findings
• Managed study recruitment and regulatory approval
• Mentored junior graduate students and undergraduates

• Cell fate detemination in C. elegans
• RNAi
• Microscopy

• Genetics & Biotechnology Track
• Graduated with Honors

• Worked in an independent, self-directed manner
• Responsible for end-to-end production, from receipt of raw materials to distribution of final

• Human Services Administration
• Nonprofit Ethics and Governance
• Social Entrepreneurship

• Technical stage production
• Live sound design
• Playwriting