CHRISTIN CUDAHY
Encinitas
Summary
Versatile chemist with extensive experience in working with a wide range of chemicals, compounds, and materials. Highly skilled in performing tests, documenting results, and writing papers. Strong organizational abilities, attention to detail, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills. Two years of experience in analytical work, two years in peptide/bio-organic synthetic research, and four years in wet chemistry and organic synthesis. Knowledge spans across various subsections of Chemistry. Three years of teaching organic chemistry labs with efficient teaching techniques. Contributed to Covid-19 pathologies at UCSC and determined to continue making a meaningful impact through work. Experience teaching math further developed time-management, organizational skills, and proficiency in teaching complex concepts.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Associate Scientist
Neurocrine Biosciences
07.2023 - Current
- Produced statistical reports to correlate with laboratory research.
- Documented changes during experiments, noting unexpected issues arising during research activities.
- Remained up-to-date on [Type] flow technology.
- Developed [Type] technology to meet client needs.
- Worked with cross-functional project teams to support productions of [Type].
- Collaborated on [Type] project teams to achieve [Type] deliverables.
- Conducted experiments in laboratory environment for product development purposes.
- Simultaneously managed several complex projects, meeting all pertinent milestones.
- Documented all processes during experiments, keeping meticulous notes of changes that were unexpected.
- Trained new employees on areas of technical expertise and compliance issues relevant to lab setting.
- Participated in lab meetings and project presentations.
- Analyzed results using analytical software and created reports.
- Developed new protocols and improved existing laboratory processes.
- Recorded and analyzed data to produce reports of results.
- Prepared samples for analysis by performing complex sample preparation tasks.
Research Associate
ADARx Pharmaceuticals
05.2022 - 05.2023
- Validated incoming data to check information accuracy and integrity while independently locating and correcting concerns.
- Prepared reagents and solutions following standard laboratory formulas and procedures.
- Interpreted laboratory results to provide technical advice to scientists.
- Recorded and analyzed data to produce reports of results.
- Participated in research projects by designing and executing experiments.
- Troubleshot and resolved equipment and process issues.
- Coordinated and managed laboratory projects and experiments.
- Gathered, arranged, and corrected research data to create representative graphs and charts highlighting results for presentations.
- Conducted research into siRNA conjugation using databases, physical records, and digital resources.
- Distilled large amounts of information and produced reports, spreadsheets, and documents outlining key details.
- Set up equipment, organized inventory and maintained facilities.
- Collaborated with researchers and scientists to design and execute experiments.
- Developed new protocols and improved existing laboratory processes.
Research Associate II
InBios International Inc.
10.2021 - 04.2022
- At InBios, I am a vital part of several teams
- My main purpose is to create, fix, and maintain the membrane (including the test and control lines) for LFIAs
- I begin by working with the R&D team to create the solutions that go into the spray
- This is the most complicated step, as the protein, antibody, cappers, additives, etc
- Are found through research and trial and error
- Once the solutions are decided upon and the rest of the LFIA is made, I work with the transfer team
- This team takes newly made LFIA for infectious diseases (such as Covid-19, Influenza, Zika, VL Human, and many others) and make them work on a large scale
- There are many unforeseen problems when going from small quantities to making a million tests a month
- This works in coordination with the Manufacturing team to fix any problems that are happening while making the tests while continuing to look at updates and stability with the transfer team
- There are many complicated steps in making a LFIA and we must all work together to make the perfect set of solutions, gold, flow, clarity, etc
High School Math Teacher
Laguna Blanca High School
09.2020 - 09.2021
- At Laguna Blanca High School in Santa Barbara, CA, I taught two Pre-Calculus classes, two Algebra 2 classes, one Honors Pre-Calculus class, 5th grade math class, and multivariable calculus
- For each class, I had the responsibility of creating and teaching lessons as well as homework and exams, grade all the work done, keep the gradebook up to date, be available to meet with students and parents, attend faculty meetings each week, assist with the STEM program by giving presentations on my own research as well as help students create their own research projects
- While Chemistry is my priority, my parents needed assistance during covid so I made the difficult decision to leave the Organic Chemistry PhD program with my MS in Organic Chemistry and move back to Santa Barbara
- As a favor to one of my high school teachers, I agreed to take on the full five course teaching load and two additional courses to cover for two teachers that could not teach in person
- On top of fitting into my schedule and my love of mathematics, this job also gave me the chance to improve my public speaking and work on many skills that I struggled with during graduate school
- Through teaching, I can now proficiently speak in front of large groups of people, teaching concepts, problem-solve and multitask without stress
Organic Chemistry PhD Candidate
University of California, Santa Cruz
08.2018 - 08.2020
- PhD Organic Chemistry Graduate Student: my primary project involved synthesizing cyclic decapeptide-peptoid hybrids to examine which features caused certain
QC Chemist
Chemdesign
06.2017 - 06.2018
- As a QC Chemist, my primary duty was to measure and test the organic and inorganic products
- Every day I began my 12-hour shift by calibrating, maintaining and operating the lab equipment and instrumentation
- For new products, new analytical protocol procedures and standardized solutions had to be developed to analyze the physical and chemical properties
- This included analytical methods for GC, HPLC, LCMS, MS, NMR, wet chemistry, and many more
- Being a QC Chemist at Chem Design is a high-pressure, independent, and mentally-challenging job since it requires going working 4:30-16:30 and 16:30-4:30 shifts every four days on your own
- Learning how to thrive in a high-pressure and detail oriented job showed me that I can do well in even the most challenging and demanding of jobs
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Dickinson College
08.2016 - 06.2017
- Professor Samet, Analytical Chemistry: My Analytical Chemistry Research project with Professor Samet practiced matrix isolation with polymers using vacuums and FTIR
- We first used CaF2 glass plates then we used KBr glass plates and adding five layers of the polymer poly (4-vinypyridine-co-styrene) and vacuum pumping acetylene and argon gas onto the plate to see how well the polymer can absorb acetylene into the multiple layers
- We studied the reaction at 16 K, 19 K, 21 K, 23 K, and 28 K
- The different temperatures controlled how quickly the parent polymer disappeared
- This research could be very important in creating new medicine and being applied to many nanotechnological techniques
- Professor Holden, Organo-Iron Chemistry: This research require myself and one other undergraduate student to create a never molecule and thus creating our own protocol
- Beginning with working with ferrocene with the original substituent of a carboxyl group
- Then we attempted to change that substituent into a pyrimidine using an enaminone
- We managed to changed the substituent into an amine, the second to final step, but the final step was not pure
- This research is important because lots of people are trying to replace aromatic groups with ferrocene because they are better compounds for medical use
Organic Chemistry Lab TA
Dickinson College
09.2015 - 06.2017
- General Chemistry I & II Lab, Organic Chemistry I & II Lab: Assist the professor by answering students' questions, general explanation of the experiment, replace broken glassware, collect and return lab reports, take over teaching if the professor got called away or couldn't come to lab, grade lab reports following a rubric
Education
M.S. - Organic Chemistry
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA08.2020
B.S. - Chemistry
Dickinson College
Carlisle, PA06.2017
Skills
- Lateral Flow Assay Membranes
- Analytical Research
- Biochemistry
- Wet Chemistry
- Gas Chromatography
- Accomplished in performing tests
- Documenting results
- Well-organized
- Detail-oriented
- Good critical thinking
- Problem solving
- Instrumentation care
- Organic synthesis
- Teaching general and advanced organic chemistry labs
- Time-management
- Teaching concepts proficiently
- LC-MS
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy
- Peptide Chemistry
- Microsoft Excel
- Lab experimental design and execution
- Results analysis and data analytics
- Standard operating procedure development
- Scientific writing
- Test data summarization
- Laboratory equipment functions
- Experiment protocol development
- Interpretation of findings
- Research methods
- Machine learning
- Paper writing
- Project Support
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Spanish
Professional Working
Timeline
Associate Scientist
Neurocrine Biosciences
07.2023 - Current
Research Associate
ADARx Pharmaceuticals
05.2022 - 05.2023
Research Associate II
InBios International Inc.
10.2021 - 04.2022
High School Math Teacher
Laguna Blanca High School
09.2020 - 09.2021
Organic Chemistry PhD Candidate
University of California, Santa Cruz
08.2018 - 08.2020
QC Chemist
Chemdesign
06.2017 - 06.2018
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Dickinson College
08.2016 - 06.2017
Organic Chemistry Lab TA
Dickinson College
09.2015 - 06.2017
B.S. - Chemistry
Dickinson College
M.S. - Organic Chemistry
University of California, Santa Cruz