• Provide company-wide support for biosecurity and animal health testing policy and procedures • Work as part of the Quality Assurance group to improve processes and write/ edit SOPs and work instructions • Plan and execute internal microbiome studies and analyze and present data

Taconic Biosciences | Jun 2019 - Mar 2022

Microbiologist

• Provide microbiology and general laboratory expertise for animal health diagnostics laboratory • Optimization and execution of anaerobic microbiology to support custom microbiome projects for external customers • Work with customer-facing and operations teams to plan and execute microbiome sequencing projects with downstream data analysis and presentations

John G. Shedd Aquarium | Jun 2016 - Jul 2018

Postdoctoral Research Associate

• Analyzed multiple 16S rRNA datasets to understand the microbial community dynamics of animals and habitats in the Shedd Aquarium with a specific focus on the effect of ozone on microbial diversity, and long-term community dynamics in a cetacean habitat • Developed and used 16S data analysis workflows in QIIME, QIIME2, DADA2 and phyloseq • Advanced skills with ‘omics data analysis in R (RStudio, Bioconductor, ggplot2, vegan) and bioinformatics tools for metagenomics assembly, binning, and taxonomic/functional profiling

University of Georgia | Jan 2016 - May 2016

Postdoctoral Research Associate

• Analyzed metatranscriptomic and metagenomic sequencing data from microbial communities in Mono Lake, CA

University of Georgia | Jul 2009 - Dec 2015

Graduate Student

• Performed anaerobic enrichment culture growth experiments to understand the role of bacteria in thioarsenic compound transformation • Used microbial community sequence analyses (16S rRNA, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics) to understand depth distribution of sulfur and arsenic cycling along a biogeochemical depth gradient in Mono Lake, CA • Developed skills in molecular biology (nucleic acid extraction, PCR, cloning, ‘omics library prep) and bioinformatics (UNIX shell scripting, research computing cluster, basic Python and Perl software installation, use, and troubleshooting)

Pace Analytical Life Sciences | Apr 2007 - Jul 2009

Microbiologist I

N/A

P3 Scientific | Oct 2005 - Apr 2007

Microbiologist I

See description for Pace Analytical

My Education

Take a look at my formal education

PhD, MicrobiologyThe University of Georgia | 2015

BS, Microbiology and Genetics/Cell Biology/DevelopmentUniversity of Minnesota-Twin Cities | 2005

About Me

Microbiologist dabbling in microbiome data analysis. Interested in getting better with R and learning Python for Data Science applications.

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