Experience
University of Florida
Undergraduate researcher for Dr. Jeffrey Rudolf
January 2024 – Present
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Assisted in culturing E. Coli and Streptomyces by creating culture media and inoculation
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Extracted genomes from mutated bacterial strains
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Purified proteins for in vitro studies
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Isolated several natural products and identified their structures and properties through HPLC and NMR analysis
The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology
Research Lab Intern for Dr. Matthew Disney
June 2021 – April 2022
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Tasked with creating buffers required for experiments conducted by laboratory personnel.
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Purified proteins for X-Ray crystallography studies.
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Responsible for the maintenance of multiple human cell lines, intended for scientific experiments.
Publications
W Ning, Z Li, X Wei, J Nafie, X Bao, F Cavassa, D Tantillo, J Rudolf. “Mechanistic Insights of Odyverdiene B2 Synthase from Streptomyces alkaliterrae.” (in preparation), 2025