NRC-RAP Postdoctoral Fellow, U. S. Naval Research Laboratory Sept 2017-present
Center for Bio/Molecular Science & Engineering Washington D.C
Principal Investigator: Dr. Gary Vora
Projects:DARPA Biological Control Independent Verification and Validation of Hydra neurophysiology; developing portable laboratory for field-forward sequencing and environmental DNA monitoring; and cnidarian genome assembly and annotation
Research Collaborator, Smithsonian NMNH-IZ D.C. & 2016 - present
National Aquarium, Baltimore, USA
Principal Investigators: Dr. Allen G. Collins & Jennie D. Janssen
Projects:Detecting cubozoans environmental DNA in aquarium systems (with Japanese collaborators); describing novel cellular structures in the Upside-down JellyfishCassiopea
Scientific Visitor(ORISE) NIH-NIL-NCBI 2017
National Center of Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, USA
Principal Investigator: Dr. Ben Busby
Projects:Assembling and annotating non-model jellyfish genomes
Research Assistant, Deep-Sea Coral Exploration. 2007-2011
University of North Carolina Wilmington,
NOAA National Systematics Lab & Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Program Officer, Canadian Foundation for Climate & Atmospheric Science 2003-2004
Ottawa, Canada