Academic Coordinator/Lecturer Resume
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Resume:
- 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 instructional improvement grants (~, dollar awarded in /) and an instrumentation grant (~, dollar awarded in );
- 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 (~$, 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 - departmental newsletter (~, alumni base)
- Project Management
- More than 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 peer reviewed publications
- Co-authored and wrote 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 (. Mio Dollar awarded in )
- 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 -present
Academic Coordinator/ Lecturer
- Director of Industry Internships and Relations
- Academic Program Development
- Instructor/Coordinator of teaching laboratories (Pharmacology A+B, Immunology, Cell Biology)
University of California, Santa Barbara -
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
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
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.
- Ph.D. Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry, University of Aachen (RWTH), Aachen, Germany, January . Thesis title: Expression of the soluble Interleukin--Receptor in E. coli: Refolding, Purification and Functional Characterization
- B.S. and M.S. Molecular Biology, University of Aachen (RWTH), Aachen, Germany, July .
- M.A. Psychology, University of Santa Monica, Santa Monica, CA, .
Borchert-Plakette (Award for Ph.D.)
Springorum-Denkmünze (Award for M.S.)
Award for Graduate Students of the Hoechst AG, Germany
DAAD grant to attend a two-week Genetechnology Course in London, UK
American Society for Experimental Pharmacology (ASPET) (since )
Lecturing
Guest Lecturer
MCDB A: Introductory Biology, MCDB Department, University of California, CA, USA
I presented a lecture on Glycolysis and Metabolism.
Guest Lecturer
MCDB : 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
Identification of centromere binding proteins of the human pathogenic yeast Candida glabrata.
Tanja Stoyan and John Carbon, th ASM Conference on Candida and Candidiasis, Tampa Florida.
Poster Presentations (selected)
A new -year B.S./M.A. program in Pharmacology and Biotechnology. Tanja Stoyan et al., submitted to Experimental Biology (ASPET), New Orleans, LA
Teaching Undergraduates Pharmacology using Flow Cytometry. Tanja Stoyan et al., Experimental Biology (ASPET), San Diego, CA
Teaching Undergraduates Basic Immunology using Flow Cytometry. Tanja Stoyan et al.,
Experimental Biology (AAI), San Diego, CA
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.
Cloning of the Centromere Binding Factor (CBF) and MSH (MutS homolog) genes from Candida glabrata. Tanja Stoyan and John Carbon. ASM conference “Yeast Genetics and Human Disease II”, Vancouver, Canada.
Publications (selected)
) Stoyan,T. and Carbon, J. (). Identification and Characterization of Inner Kinetochore Proteins of the human pathogenic yeast Candida glabrata. Euk. Cell , -.
) Stoyan, T., Gloeckner, G., Diekmann, S., and Carbon, J. (). Multifunctional centromere binding factor (Cbf) is essential for chromosome segregation in the human pathogenic yeast Candida glabrata. MCB , .
) Hemmerich, P., Stoyan, T., Wieland, G., Koch, M., Lechner, J., and Diekmann, S. (). Interaction of yeast kinetochor proteins with centromere protein/ transcription factor Cbf.
PNAS , (shared first authorship).
) Stoyan, T., Eck, R., Lechner, J., Hemmerich, P., Künkel, W., and Diekmann, S. (). Cloning of a Centromer binding factor d (Cbfd) gene from Candida glabrata. Yeast , -.
) Stoyan, T., Recktenwald, A., and Kula, M.R. (). Cloning, Sequencing and Overexpression of the Leucine Dehydrogenase Gene from Bacillus cereus. J. Biotechn. , -.
) Stoyan, T., Michaelis, U., Schooltink, H., van Dam, M., Rudolph, R., Heinrich, P.C., and Rose-John, S. (). Recombinant soluble human interleukin--receptor: expression in Escherichia coli, renaturation and purification. Eur.J.Biochem. , .
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