Alex Daiejavad
Toronto,ON
Summary
I have experience working in both wet-lab and dry-lab roles for several academic labs which has given me strong organizational and collaborative skills. As a PhD. student, I continue to regularly engage with people of diverse backgrounds and pride myself on disseminating and presenting information in a manner that is accessible to everyone. I am a very fast learner and able to adapt quickly to different environments and projects. I have strong data analytic skills, particularly with a strong proficiency in the R programming language. I hope to join a data-heavy role where I can apply my quantitative skills while increasing my level of expertise.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
PhD. Student
Centre For Cellular And Biomolecular Research
09.2021 - Current
- I am currently undertaking a computational project to characterize the impacts of single-gene perturbations on subcellular compartments of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This provides us with valuable insights into which genes are involved in proper morphological development of the cell, and to what degree of severity these processes are affected as genes are perturbed.
- I frequently work with others in a team environment to go compile and work on publishing our findings, as well as divide up any remaining tasks or responsibilities.
- I engage with others in my lab as well as others outside of my research field, so I have experience with distilling and presenting technical data in an accessible manner.
Undergraduate Student Researcher
MaRS Discovery District
05.2020 - 04.2021
- As a student researcher, I worked on characterizing the relationship between surface lipoprotein assembly modulators (SLAMs) and surface lipoproteins (SLPs). SLAMs are required for SLPs to assemble on the surfaces of certain pathogenic bacteria, enabling their virulence. Some examples of SLPs include factor H binding protein (fHBP) and transferrin binding protein B (TbpB). By characterizing this relationship, it will be possible to engineer SLPs for use in vaccines.
- I did several computational projects where I identified putative SLAMs in different strains of bacteria. I used multiple sequence alignment, BLAST, and evolutionary trees.
- I briefly did some benchwork where I aided a senior researcher to optimize the purification of a metallopeptidase, a putative SLP in Neisseria meningitidis to be used in future assays.
Undergraduate Student Researcher
Structural Genomics Consortium
05.2019 - 08.2019
- As a summer project student, I aided a senior PhD. student with purifying over a hundred proteins to be used in protein crystallization assays.
- I was able to independently carry out protein purification assays, conduct quality checks, and summarize my work each day for others in the lab.
- Before concluding my stay, I created detailed step-by-step instructions for protein purification to be used by future students in the lab.
Education
Ph.D. -
University of Toronto, Department of Molecular Genetics
Toronto, ONBachelor of Science -
University of Toronto, Faculty of Arts & Science
Toronto, ON06.2021
Skills
- R programming language (rms, Hmisc, ggplot2, tidyverse, various statistical analysis techniques)
- Python programming (pandas, numpy, and Tkinter)
- Designing, testing, optimizing, and executing workflows for analyzing large volumes of data (> 1 Tb) from high-content screens
- Close attention to detail and ensuring all analyzed and shared data is factually accurate and easy to understand by general audiences
- Version control using git/github
- General knowledge in systems biology and high-content screens
- Linux command line
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Farsi
Limited Working
Awards
- Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA), awarded by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (05/2020 - 08/2020)
- The Alfred and Isabel Bader Scholarship (09/2020 - 04/2021)
- The McCutcheon Award (09/2019 - 04/2020)
- The Professor William Kingston and Dr. John Kingston Scholarship (09/2018 - 04/2019)
Timeline
PhD. Student
Centre For Cellular And Biomolecular Research
09.2021 - Current
Undergraduate Student Researcher
MaRS Discovery District
05.2020 - 04.2021
Undergraduate Student Researcher
Structural Genomics Consortium
05.2019 - 08.2019
Ph.D. -
University of Toronto, Department of Molecular Genetics
Bachelor of Science -
University of Toronto, Faculty of Arts & Science
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