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Biological Science Aide
USDA-ARS Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology, Chemistry Unit. 
 

Dates: 5/21-8/10/2012, 6/7-8/12/2011, and 6/20-8/20/2010

Responsibilities:

  • Investigated patterns for important regulatory genes and hormones throughout the life cycle of the honey bee, including previously unstudied insect hormones.

  • Extracted RNA, synthesized DNA, and analyzed samples using quantitative PCR

  • Extracted and purified insect hemolymph samples, and analyzed samples using gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy

  • Assisted in honey bee husbandry

Biological Field Assistant.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Gainesville Wildlife Research Laboratory.
 
Dates: 5/14-8/8/2013.
Responsibilities:
  • Assisted in the monitoring of American Kestrel nest-boxes
  • Worked independently in the field: located sites using GPS, operated camera monitoring equipment, and collected data on breeding stage and reproductive success. 
Animal Care and Research Assistant.
USDA National Wildlife Research Center, Florida Field Station, Gainesville, FL.
 
Dates: 5/20-7/23/2013
​Responsibilites: 
  • Assisted in a variety of studies investigating management practices for invasive species.
  • Made behavioral observations and collected data, participated in field surveys documenting damage done by feral hogs

Research & Professional Experience

Undergraduate Research Assistant.

Integrative Biology Department, University of South Florida. Tampa, FL.

 

Dates: 8/31/2012-12/06/2013, 1/7/2015-present.

Responsibility:

  • Engaged undergraduates and faculty at USF to investigate the dose-response curve of honey bees to the Nosema pathogen after pre-exposure to the fungicide chlorothalonil.

  • Assisted in development of a research project to investigate the behavioral resistance of oak toads to the chytrid fungus.

  • Observed and recorded toad behavior during experiments.

  • Extracted DNA and analyzed samples using quantitative PCR.

Undergraduate Research Assistant.

Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

 

Dates: 2/24-6/27/2014.

Responsibilities:

  • Analyzed population dynamics of healthy honey bee colonies by documenting and quantifying changes in the area of brood and honey cells in each hive.

  • Carried out assays of bees treated with varying concentrations of neonicotinoid pesticides and recorded changes in behavior.

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