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Academic Coordinator/Lecturer

Posted on: 2011-10-07

Relevant Experience/Skills 

 

  • Academic Science Programs
    • Initiated, developed and implemented a new Emphasis in Pharmacology and Biotechnology in the existing departmental MA program.
    • Initiated and developed the new Pharmacology & Biotechnology program with an Internship program and Industrial Affiliated program (in the process of implementing).

 

  • Curriculum Development (in collaboration with faculty and/or staff)
    • Designed and wrote 2 instructional improvement grants (~17,000 dollar awarded in 2006/2007) and an instrumentation grant (~15,000 dollar awarded in 2007);
    • Implemented and evaluated five different laboratory exercises for advanced undergraduate teaching laboratories in pharmacology, cell biology and immunology;
      • Developed (with web designer) and hosted course websites.
      • Innovated the Pharmacology Program and curriculum, modeling best teaching and learning practices;

 

  • Coordinator
    • Build and coordinate teams of faculty, staff and teaching assistants in delivering weekly laboratory exercises for advanced undergraduate teaching laboratories in Classical Pharmacology, Molecular Pharmacology, Cell Biology and Molecular Immunology;
    • Lead weekly meetings with faculty and teaching assistants;
    • Resolve and mediate conflicts with faculty, teaching assistants, students and staff; problem-solving skills;
    • Providing overall guidance to staff and teaching assistants, delegating assignments and monitoring workflow

 

  • Lab Manager
    • Manage a new teaching facility
  • Responsible for the course budgets (~$28,000 annually); set-up the labs with equipment and materials for the weekly lab exercises and order the supplies
    • Responsible for recruiting, mentoring, training graduate and undergraduate teaching assistants (TAs).

 

  • Instructor
    • Training undergraduate students in data analysis and the laboratory techniques used in pharmacology, immunology, and cell biology;
    • Present course material, write and grade test questions, develop and supervise the grading of weekly laboratory reports; do one-on-one presentations to the students and classroom demonstrations

 

  • Outreach
    • Director for Industry Internships and Relations
    • Serve on the departmental development-industrial outreach committee
    • Involved in fundraising efforts for the department (in collaboration with development office); met with former alumni; wrote appeal-letters
    • Chief Editor and Chair of the Committee of the 2007- 2009 departmental newsletter (~10,000 alumni base)

 

  • Project Management
    • More than 10 years of project management experience in biotechnology research and development in academic and industry laboratories in Germany and the U.S.

 

  • Oral Presentations
    • Guest lecturer
    • Invited presentation at conference
    • Lab seminars
    • Poster presentations

 

  • Scientific Writing
  • Independently authored and wrote 6 peer reviewed publications
  • Co-authored and wrote 12 additional manuscripts for peer reviewed publications
  • Wrote numerous scientific abstracts and posters
  • Authored documentation for a successful patent application
  • Managed and directed writing a five-year NIH-grant proposal (1.25 Mio Dollar awarded in 2002)
  • Wrote numerous documentations and reports for biotechnological projects conforming to applicable regional regulations

 

  • Computer Skills
    • Proficient with Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Excel; Adobe Acrobat
    • Basic knowledge of Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop, Indesign
    • Macintosh and PC
    • Proficient with the Internet

 

Employment History

                                                                                                                   

University of California, Santa Barbara                                                                                               2009-present

Academic Coordinator/ Lecturer

  • Director of Industry Internships and Relations
  • Academic Program Development
  • Instructor/Coordinator of 4 teaching laboratories (Pharmacology A+B, Immunology, Cell Biology)

 

University of California, Santa Barbara                                                                                               2004- 2009

Lab Manager/Staff Coordinator

  • Responsible for curriculum development and training undergraduate students in data analysis and the laboratory techniques used in pharmacology, immunology, and cell biology.
  • Program and Curriculum Development

                                                                                             

Institute for Molecular Biotechnology, Germany                                                                                 1997-1999

Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Responsible laboratory manager with staff. Successfully managed and directed two independent research projects. Established scientific collaborations with four other research groups.

 

Institute for Enzyme-Technology, Germany                                                                             1994-1995

Postdoctoral Fellow                                            

  • Responsible for isolating and recombinant expression (E. coli) of a gene for the catalytic enzyme Leucine Dehydrogenase for the industrial production of non-proteinogenic L-amino acids from Bacillus cereus. Trained and mentored a Masters student.

           

Boehringer Mannheim, Germany                                                          1994

Scientist                                                                                                                            

Education
  • Ph.D. Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry, University of Aachen (RWTH),  Aachen, Germany, January 1994. Thesis title: Expression of the soluble Interleukin-6-Receptor in E. coli: Refolding, Purification and Functional Characterization
  • B.S. and M.S. Molecular Biology, University of Aachen (RWTH), Aachen, Germany, July 1990.
  • M.A. Psychology, University of Santa Monica, Santa Monica, CA, 2003.

 

 

 

Awards

 

1994      Borchert-Plakette (Award for Ph.D.)

1991   Springorum-Denkmünze (Award for M.S.)

1990    Award for Graduate Students of the Hoechst AG, Germany

1988   DAAD grant to attend a two-week Genetechnology Course in London, UK

  Professional Affiliations

 

American Society for Experimental Pharmacology (ASPET) (since 2007)

 

 

Patent

 

1998                Enzyme with LeuDH activity, nucleotide sequence coding therefore and process for the preparation of the enzyme.Tanja Stoyan and Maria-Regina Kula; Worldwide Patent. Nr. 5.854.035.

Lecturing

 

2007 Guest Lecturer

MCDB 1A: Introductory Biology, MCDB Department, University of California, CA, USA

I presented a lecture on Glycolysis and Metabolism.

 

2003 Guest Lecturer

MCDB 189: Colloquium Biological Research, University of California

I presented a lecture on my research “Centromere binding proteins of the human pathogenic yeast  Candida glabrata: new targets for antifungal drug development”.

 

Oral Presentations

 

2002   Identification of centromere binding proteins of the human pathogenic yeast Candida glabrata.

Tanja Stoyan and John Carbon, 6th ASM Conference on Candida and Candidiasis, Tampa Florida.

 


Poster Presentations (selected)

 

2009  A new 5-year B.S./M.A. program in Pharmacology and Biotechnology. Tanja Stoyan et al., submitted to Experimental Biology 2009 (ASPET), New Orleans, LA

 

2008 Teaching Undergraduates Pharmacology using Flow Cytometry. Tanja Stoyan et al., Experimental Biology 2008 (ASPET), San Diego, CA

 

2008 Teaching Undergraduates Basic Immunology using Flow Cytometry. Tanja Stoyan et al.,

         Experimental Biology 2008 (AAI), San Diego, CA

 

2004 Characterization of the Inner Kinetochore of the Pathogenic Yeast Candida glabrata. Tanja Stoyan and John Carbon. Summer Research Conference (FASEB) Meeting ‘Yeast Chromosome Structure, Replication and Segregation’, Pine Mountain, GA.

 

1999  Cloning of the Centromere Binding Factor 1 (CBF1) and MSH4 (MutS homolog) genes from Candida glabrata. Tanja Stoyan and John Carbon. ASM conference “Yeast Genetics and Human Disease II”, Vancouver, Canada.

 

Publications (selected)

 

1) Stoyan,T. and Carbon, J. (2004). Identification and Characterization of Inner Kinetochore Proteins of the human pathogenic yeast Candida glabrata. Euk. Cell 3, 1154-1163.

 

2) Stoyan, T., Gloeckner, G., Diekmann, S., and Carbon, J. (2001). Multifunctional centromere binding factor 1 (Cbf1) is essential for chromosome segregation in the human pathogenic yeast Candida glabrata. MCB 21, 4875-4888.

 

3) Hemmerich, P., Stoyan, T., Wieland, G., Koch, M., Lechner, J., and Diekmann, S. (2000). Interaction of yeast kinetochor proteins with centromere protein/ transcription factor Cbf1.
PNAS 97, 12583-12588 (shared first authorship).

 

4) Stoyan, T., Eck, R., Lechner, J., Hemmerich, P., Künkel, W., and Diekmann, S. (1999). Cloning of a Centromer binding factor 3d (Cbf3d) gene from Candida glabrata. Yeast 15, 793-798.

 

5) Stoyan, T., Recktenwald, A., and Kula, M.R. (1997). Cloning, Sequencing and Overexpression of the Leucine Dehydrogenase Gene from Bacillus cereus. J. Biotechn. 54, 77-80.

 

6) Stoyan, T., Michaelis, U., Schooltink, H., van Dam, M., Rudolph, R., Heinrich, P.C., and Rose-John, S. (1993). Recombinant soluble human interleukin-6-receptor: expression in Escherichia coli, renaturation and purification. Eur.J.Biochem. 216, 239.

 

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