• Maintained and restructured district website to provide resources to 6 dental schools across Texas, Oklahoma, and Colorado
• Implemented new integration of event payment and registration system into website

• Digital image analysis of 3D structures for salivary tissue engineering

• Worked with company founders to plan, model, and create web apps using Wordpress, Ninja Forms, Airtable, and Zapier.

Responsibilities include:

• Demonstrated lab techniques, ensured lab safety, and aided the development of new researchers
• Organized and led weekly team meetings with students to discuss key concepts and provide guidance
• TA for PyMOL workshop for graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty. Facilitated discussion in break out rooms over Zoom for intermediate and advanced PyMOL skills.
• Lead summer 2020 mentor with additional tasks including writing protocols, leading journal article reading discussions, and scheduling mentors and students

Responsibilities include:

• Utilization of computational methods to identify potential protein inhibitors: PyMOL, Genetic Optimization for Ligand Docking (GOLD), Chimera, YASARA, XQuartz, Cyberduck
• Applied wet lab techniques to express and purify target protein: Midi-prep, agarose gel electrophoresis, DNA sequencing analysis, protein expression, SDS-PAGE, Ni-NTA affinity chromatography, ion exchange chromatography, enzyme assays, site directed mutagenesis, PCR, Snap-freezing, DSF
• Volunteer work over summer 2019 (80+ hours) developing a protocol for autoinduction expression of Mycobacterium tuberculosis D-alanine D-alanine ligase gene on pNIC-Bsa4 plasmid.

Responsibilities include:

• Assisted during lecture and lab sessions by resolving questions on statistics and R code; Proctored exams
• Graded weekly homework and labs and provided detailed feedback to students for improvement.