Project: Lab Manager (2016-2021)
Salk Institute, Jin Lab
In conjunction with being a research assistant, I have gained invaluable experience working as a lab manager within a non-profit research setting. With my organizational skills, I have sustained lab functioning by budgeting lab finances as well as diligently keeping records of controlled substances, hazardous materials, and lab inventory. Furthermore, my responsibility of writing animal protocols and promoting ethical compliance ensures the continuation of all experiments. As a leader, I foster teamwork and communication by orchestrating lab meetings that resolve scheduling conflicts and other lab issues. Additionally, being the lab liaison between my lab and all institute departments showed me how multifaceted academic research really is, and therefore has given me a holistic viewpoint.
Project: Research Coordinator (2016)
St. Alphonsus Medical Center & Physician Research, Seibert Lab
Due to my leadership and investment in the research, I was promoted from Research Assistant to Research Coordinator during my time at St. Alphonsus Physician Research. Within this position, I exercised my skills as a leader by overseeing the progression of multiple research assistant projects while communicating updates and ideas to my principal investigator. During this time, I proposed our lab attend two conferences within the year, thus I worked to support my lab in the generation of research ideas, the collection and analysis of data, as well as conference application and attendance (i.e. abstract submission, poster-making, practicing oral presentations). Additionally, clinical research presented opportunities to write and submit Institutional Review Board protocols, which I did for multiple projects. Furthermore, I was the liaison for our collaboration with the Saint Alphonsus Heart Institute (Boise), for which I independently coordinated meetings to discuss data collection and project updates. Lastly, I took on the responsibility as a supervisor to the teaching assistants for the Boise State Psychology 101 course. Here, I helped guide lectures, graded assignments and fielded questions from students taking the course.
