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DOCTORAL CANDIDATE
Professional Summary
Proven, productive biologist with growing computational skills. Competent, flexible, jack-of-all-trades, rapidly masters new techniques. Fun, caring coworker, with drive and ambition.
Skills
  • Innovative, intuitive, quick
  • Fast learner
  • Advanced problem solving skills
  • Troubleshooting and debugging
  • Shell scripting
Accomplishments
  • Platform Talk: The Allied Genetics Conference, 2016.
  • Evidence for the interspecies transfer of a driving X chromosome".
Work History
May 2015-CurrentDoctoral Candidate | Company Name | City, State

Developed pipeline to scan two dozen genomes for evolutionary signatures

Deployed assays to inform and model historical species branching

Constructed genomes from raw sequence data


June 2011-May 2013Laboratory AssistantCompany Name |

Unraveled complex and unknown toxin response genetic pathways

Developed and optimized assays to explore cancer synthesis and progression

June 2010-May 2011Laboratory AssistantCompany Name |

Developed a novel test to screen for viral infection

Exposed false data and scientific fraud

Education
May 2016Master of Science: Biology: Evolutionary GeneticsUniversity of Utah, City, State
  • Two manuscripts in progress
  • Selected for talk at national genetics meeting
  • Working knowledge of python, pandas, scikitlearn

May 2013Bachelor of Arts: Biology: Molecular, Cellular, EvolutionaryUniversity of Utah, City, State
  • Minor in German, Chemistry
  • Recipient of Clemens Foundation Scholarship (9k/year)
Publications
Basham KJ, Leonard CJ, Kieffer C, Shelton DN, McDowell ME, Bhonde VR, Looper RE, Welm BE. (2015) Dioxin Exposure Blocks Lactation through a Direct Effect on Mammary Epithelial Cells Mediated by the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Repressor. Tox Sci. (link) *Basham KJ, Kieffer C, Shelton DN, Leonard CJ, Bhonde VR, Vankayalapati H, Milash B, Bearss DJ, Looper RE, Welm BE (2013) Chemical Genetic Screen Reveals a Role for Desmosomal Adhesion in Mammary Branching Morphogenesis. J Biol. Chem., 288(4), 2261-2270. (link) *Shin CH, Bateman L, Schlaberg R, Bunker AM, Leonard CJ, Hughen RW, Light AR, Light KC, Singh IR (2011) Absence of XMRV retrovirus and other murine leukemia virus-related viruses in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. J Virol., 85(14), 7195-202. (link) 2
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Resume Overview

School Attended

  • University of Utah

Job Titles Held:

  • Doctoral Candidate
  • Laboratory Assistant

Degrees

  • Master of Science : Biology: Evolutionary Genetics
    Bachelor of Arts : Biology: Molecular, Cellular, Evolutionary

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