Skills:
Laboratory Skills: General practices, preparation of buffer and concentrated acid/base solutions, compound extraction, steam distillation, synthesis of active compounds, qualitative and quantitative evaluation of compounds, Rotovap and other vacuum filtration methods, enzyme kinetics assays, use of standards and blanks for QA, protein purification, gel electrophoresis, SDS-Page, electroporation, DNA purification, microbiology, microscopy and use of analytical balances. Other Skills: Writing scientific papers, processing collecting and presenting data, strong organization, excellent oral and written communication, experience working with farm animals, ability to work in a team or individual environment and maintain flexibility in changing priorities and deadlines. Instrumentation: Chromatography (TLC, column chromatography, GC-MS, GC) Spectroscopy (FT-IR, FT-NMR, UV-Vis) Microbiology (Kodak molecular imaging, PCR) Software and operating systems: Windows Vista, XP and 7, Microsoft Office (Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word), EZ Omnic 7.2, Chemdraw, Chemsketch 8.17, Adobe Acrobat and QuickBooks. Databases: NCBI, Genbank, EBSCO, JSTOR, and other scientific journal databases