Work Experience:
Hood Room Supervisor
Walters Gardens Inc.
Zeeland, MI 49464
Supervised a staff of 15 people (lab only had hood space for 16)
Responsibilities included:
Assigning daily hood room tasks and kept work flowing smoothly
Train new hood room staff
Train and help others with identifying contamination
Assist in propagation using aseptic culture methods
Graduate Research Assistant
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Carbondale, IL 62901
Responsibilities included:
Establishment of an effective adventitious shoot regeneration system followed by genetic transformation of soybean.
Plants that I have experience in TC'ing:
Ajuga
Bergenia
Brunnera
Cimicifuga
Corydalis
Dicentra
Grape (Vitis)
Gypsophila
Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola'
Hibiscus (hardy and tropical)
Heuchera
Hosta
Leucanthemum
Pulmonaria
Soybean (G. max)
Thalictrum kiusianum
Tiarella
Willow
Yucca filamentosa
