Resume

• 2008

  LIN Pharmaceuticals

  Inc

  Northeast Normal University

  Neopeutics Sdn. Bhd.

  Mendel Biotechnology

  Inc.

  University of California

  Santa Cruz

  Neopeutics Sdn. Bhd.

  Adjunct Professor

  Diablo Valley College

  Post-Doctoral Fellow

  • Developed a methodology for high-throughput chemogenomic profiling of drugs for the identification of drug targets in the yeasts S. cerevisiae and S. pombe

  resulting in a publication in Molecular Systems Biology\n\n• Established a yeast halo assay discovery platform for rapid identification of bioactive natural product extracts derived from traditional Chinese medicinal herbs at Northeast Normal University in Changchun

  China.

  Univeristy of California

  San Francisco

  LIN Pharmaceuticals

  Inc

  Mendel Biotechnology

  Inc.

  Hayward

  CA

  USA

  Mendel Biotechnology is a mid-sized agricultural biotechnology company dedicated to developing and commercializing genetic and chemical products for increased crop productivity and resource use efficiency. I joined Mendel’s team in 2010 to support their growing chemical genetics program. I started as part of a team working on low-throughput

  highly specialized assay development projects. In 2011

  I took responsibility for leading our in planta high-throughput chemical screening efforts

  with an emphasis on data analysis

  hit prioritization

  and directing follow-up work. In 2013 I became the group leader for Mendel’s Lab Automation group

  responsible for experimental design and project management. I communicate experimental results orally in technical meetings and formal project reviews

  as well as in written reports to internal and external groups.

  Research Scientist II

  Developed a combinatorial screening method for studying interactions between polymer thin-films and complimentarily functionalized gold nanoparticles.

  University of Massachusetts

  Freelance Writer

  BKA Content

  Graduate Student

  • Achieved the total synthesis of a bioactive phalloidin analog using solid-phase peptide synthesis

  featuring the novel use of an iodine oxidation reaction for the formation of a key thioether linkage. \n\n• Explored effects of peptide sequence and C-alpha stereochemistry on linear peptide secondary structure and cyclization efficiency in a variety of tryptathionine-containing peptides.\n\n• Supervised 5 undergraduate researchers

  and taught 2 years of general and organic chemistry laboratory courses and discussion sections

  University of California

  Santa Cruz

  San Jose State University

  San Jose

  CA

  Part-time lecturer with the Chemistry department

  currently teaching organic chemistry (Chem 8)

  Lecturer

  Set up a high-throughput halo assay for rapid identification of bioactive natural product extracts derived from plants used in traditional Chinese medicine

  Northeast Normal University

  Post-doc

  Post-doctoral fellowship

  Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology

  Chemical genetics

  University of California

  San Francisco

• 2003

  Ph.D.

  Bioorganic Chemistry

• 1997

  B. Sc.

  Chemistry

  Microsoft Access I

  II

  Getting and Cleaning Data

  Science Writing

  R Programming

  The Data Scientist's Toolbox

  CSHL Frontiers and Techniques in Plant Science

• 702

  R. Scott Lokey

• Expanding Your Horizons conferences are designed to introduce middle and high school girls to careers in science

  technology

  engineering and mathematics

  (STEM). In collaboration with a colleague

  I presented a workshop for middle school-aged girls entitled \"Ready

  set

  GROW! Plant natural products in your everyday life\".

  Expanding Your Horizons

  A. thaliana

  Biotechnology

  Peptides

  Mass Spectrometry

  Organic Chemistry

  Genetics

  Yeast deletion library manipulation

  High Throughput Screening

  R programming

  HPLC

  DNA

  Yeast chemical genetic profiling

  Lifesciences

  University Teaching

  Drug Discovery

  Assay Development

  Chemistry

  Cell

  Genomics

  Systems Biology

  Kapitzky

  Laura

  Kapitzky

  BKA Content

  University of Massachusetts

  San Jose State University

  Univeristy of California

  San Francisco

  Diablo Valley College