Tanya Myers

• Customer support through the performance of on-site installation
• Troubleshooting
• Service, and repair of complex equipment and systems
• Reviews and approves operational quality of system equipment
• Serves as company liaison with customers on administrative and technical matters for assigned projects
• Interprets customers' needs and identifies if the responsibility for problem resolution falls to sales employees or engineers.
• Collaborated with other teams to identify and resolve customer issues quickly and professionally.

• Reporting and milestone delivery based on project timeline
• Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
• Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
• Plan and manage contract activity based on approved project timelines and milestones
• Schedule bi-weekly progress meetings with Sponsor
• Use initiative and creativity to solve routine problems in relation to individual projects, e.g
• Methodological, technical, and financial problems
• Plan the use of contract resources, and laboratories as appropriate
• Manages Mitacs projects, and students and reports to the funding agency
• Ensures compliance and implements all non-clinical, institutional regulations, policies and guidelines
• Ongoing mandatory continuing education and training requirements relating to laboratory animals, occupational health and safety, and Quality management
• Contribute to and collaborate on synthesizing preclinical data for reporting purposes
• Interim reporting of preclinical data and progress and detailed data summary report to funder/sponsor
• Train personnel in laboratory safety, MSDS database and equipment use and ensure safety procedures are followed
• Writing SOPs

• Instruct and supervise students in laboratory techniques
• Perform RNA isolations on the spinal cord, synthesize cDNA, qPCR, protein synthesis, multiplexing, microscopy and confocal imaging
• Process and submit forms to Animal Ethics Committee
• Perform microsurgery on rodents for a model of spinal cord injury
• Order and maintain laboratory supplies
• Perform histological procedures
• Interviewed, hired and trained lab technicians to perform experiments and analyze results.
• Kept laboratory in compliance with applicable guidelines and laws
• Develop and maintain databases and spreadsheets for publications

• Lead Faculty for Histology (Years I, II and III), Immunology, Microanatomy, and Molecular Biology courses and laboratory delivery

• Provided students with constructive, encouraging and corrective feedback.

• Instruct students in theory and practical applications of Medical Laboratory Technology (MLT)

• Prepare and deliver instructional information within the classroom and laboratory

• Evaluate and access students in theory and practical applications in medical laboratory techniques

• Develop course material and instructional presentations

● Train personnel in laboratory safety, MSDS database and equipment use and ensure safety procedures are followed

• Provide career direction, support, advice, and mentoring for students

• Demonstrated interpersonal and communication skills resulting in clear communication of subject matter to students.
• Collaborated with faculty, staff and stakeholders from across the college and community to create, preserve and partnerships.
• Selected and developed instructional material and planned instruction to enhance student learning.
• Evaluated student learning by creating and applying course competencies and accurately evaluating student progress.
• Modified instructional methods and strategies to meet diverse student needs.
• Incorporated proven methods of engagement and assessment that facilitated student mastery of content.

• Supervised daily operations of the histology suite
• Maintained cell lines in culture for use by staff and students for experimental procedures
• Performed histological stains in order to perform counts for the evaluation of neuronal survival
• Performed various surgical techniques to determine drug effectiveness in the survival of injured neurons
• Kept laboratory in compliance with applicable guidelines and laws.
• Interviewed, hired and trained lab technicians to perform experiments and analyze results.
• Kept equipment maintained, facility clean and organized and inventory stocked to maximize performance.
• Managed operational documents and produced reports detailing activities.

• Supervise, instruct, and assist undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral fellows (50+ over 10 years), with laboratory techniques and protocols including isolation of blood cells using various methods (Percoll and MACS), primer design, quantitative PCR, conventional PCR, protein determination, western blotting, zymogram gels, FACS, immunohistochemistry, ELISA, microtome, cryostat sectioning, animal necroscopy, cell culture, solution preparation, and histological staining
• Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
• Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
• Perform surgical techniques for the determination and examination of cell infiltration post-myocardial infarction, and post-kidney and/or heart transplant
• Perform analysis to determine the expression levels of various proteins, and their correlation with cell infiltration, post-myocardial infarction and heart and or kidney transplant
• Provide research data and intellectual contributions to peer-reviewed publications and grant proposals
• Recruit science students in the laboratory for the cooperative, honors and graduate programs
• Train personnel in laboratory safety, MSDS database and equipment use and ensure safety procedures are followed
• Maintain cell lines and primary cell culture for experimental use by staff and students
• Order laboratory equipment and supplies, obtain quotations and maintain professional relationships with supplier and distributor representatives
• Design graphics and images for use within grant and proposal documents based on microscopic imagery
• Prepare and submit Animal Ethics Project applications
• Present laboratory data at international conferences (Canadian Cardiovascular Congress)
• Manage grant operating budget of approximately 200K/year

• Supervised, instructed and assisted undergraduate and graduate students post-doctoral fellows, and volunteers in laboratory procedures and protocols including histological cutting of frozen gelatin and paraffin-embedded tissues, histological staining, immunohistochemistry, western blotting, genotyping, primer design, vector cloning, and conventional PCR.
• Developed novel laboratory techniques for use by researchers and staff
• Survival assay using cells and neural explant cultures to test the survivability of candidate genes
• New methods to subclone genes of interest into a mammalian expression vector to examine gene function
• Managed grant operating budget of approximately 300K/year
• Obtained quotations and ordered laboratory equipment and supplies for laboratory renovations (Cell Restoration Laboratory) obtaining quotations and maintaining relationships with supplier and distributor representatives
• Provided research data and intellectual contributions to peer-reviewed publications and grant proposals
• Performed analyses to determine the role(s) of specific subsets of proteins in the process of cell survival in the central nervous system
• Performed immunohistochemistry to visually determine the presence of various nerve cell types after tissue damage
• Performed surgical techniques for determining and examining cell survival and regeneration
• Maintained cell lines in culture for use by staff and students for experimental procedures
• Designed graphics and images for use within grant and proposal documents based on microscopic imagery
• Prepared Animal Ethics Project submissions
• Presented laboratory data at international conferences (Association for Research & Vision in Ophthalmology)

• Train personnel on the proper procedures of blood collection, ensuring the patient and requisition are identical and correct hospital protocols and procedures are followed
• Collect blood samples from in-patients, Dr
• Completed proper sanitation and cleaning of equipment and work areas between patients.
• Labeled transfer tubes and followed exact directions for handling and storing specimens for transport.
• Established and maintained positive working relationships with patients, staff and clinical personnel to build trust and camaraderie.