Skills:
Selected Laboratory skills: PCR and RT/PCR, QPCR, SDS-PAGE, western blotting, northern blotting, recombinant protein expression and purification, cloning, nucleic acid purification, mutagenesis, mass spectrometry, sequencing, ChIP, Stem cell culture, primary culture, Mammalian and Drosophila cell culture, transfection and transduction, ELISA, immunocytochemistry, use of antibodies, Light/Phase microscopy, confocal microscopy, deconvolution fluorescent microscopy. Professional skills: GLP, SOP, Sterile techniques, handling of potentially infectious materials (blood, semen, oocytes, embryos), highly effective in recording data and discussing data with team members and laboratory directors (developed by my work in Reproductive Medicine Associates of New Jersey; where I had to fallow SOP, GLP, quality control procedures plus have excellent communication with other embryologist to ensure success in the fertilization process). Computational: Excellent working knowledge of bioinformatics software and databases for sequence and genetic analysis (Genbank, BLAST, Multiple Alignment). Excel and Word, PowerPoint, Photoshop, ImageJ, Huygens software, and SAS. Solid knowledge on: DNA repair pathways, meiotic recombination, chromatin, cancer biology, genetics, embryology, virology, immunology, microbiology.