Pre-Medical Student - (Salt Lake City, UT)

EDUCATION University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT Fall 2016 – Spring 2017 Summer 2013 & 2014 Focus: Organic Chemistry and Post-Baccalaureate Courses Washington University in St. Louis, MO Bachelor of Arts, May 2016 Major: Biology Minors: Spanish and Psychological & Brain Sciences Honors and Awards: Thomas H. Eliot Scholar, 2012-2016 Outstanding OWL (Overnight Welcome Leader), 2013 Weber State University, Ogden, UT Associate of Science, April 2012 Major: General Studies WORK EXPERIENCE Queller-Strassmann Laboratory Group St. Louis, MO Student Research Assistant September 2012 – May 2016 Worked on several different projects concerning Dictyostelium discoideum and its interaction with symbiotic bacteria. Projects included identifying and sequencing bacteria carried by D. discoideum as well as investigating this bacterial carriage in related species D. purpureum. Presented research at the Undergraduate Research Symposium 2014-2016 and Organismality Conference 2015. YMCA – Campus Y