kaitlyn norman-powers

* Head of recruitment event at NMSU to recruit minority students to apply to MCDB * Helped organize departmental retreat * Coordinated, planned, and organized departmental wide social activities * Helped coordinate prospective student schedules for interview weekends * Updated departmental Twitter and Facebook feeds * Promoted events within MCDB including social events and seminars * Promoted departmental publications

* Thesis work involved deciphering kinase signaling cascades that help mitigate stress using yeast as a model organism * Utilized various genetic, molecular, and biochemical techniques including cloning, PCR, HPLC, protein purification, and western blotting * Composed four publications with a current manuscript underway * Managed, trained, and advised five undergraduates and three rotation students * Sculpted problem solving and analytical skills * Individual project management, multitasking, and time management * Oral and written communication through public talks, poster presentations, and grant writing

* Critically analyzed confidential invention disclosures and produce reports on over 45 university inventions * Work directly contributed to licensing decisions for over 20 inventions * Composed non-confidential market write-ups for licensing purposes * Easily and quickly adapted to new and varying research disciplines including medical devices, software, and biological tools * Completed market analysis, competition landscapes and prior art analysis

* Worked as a healthcare team fellow for the student led venture fund * Conducted full due diligence on over 10 companies in varying fields including healthcare, clean-tech, and automotive * Personally worked on and pitched a healthcare company that lead to a direct $30K investment by the fund. * Conducted in depth primary and secondary research * Structured term sheets and negotiated deals for investments

* Established Kerafast's presence on the University of Michigan campus * Acted as a liaison between Kerafast, Office of Technology Transfer, and faculty * Utilized customer service and sales abilities to encourage faculty to list their reagents on Kerafast's database * Had five committed professors and over 15 products added to Kerafast's portfolio within first months of establishment

* Conducted team based scientific consulting for life science companies * Prepared full due diligence written and oral reports on several projects, each lasting 1-2 months * Researched secondary market and completed primary customer interviews

* Conducted remote team based scientific consulting * Collected in-depth interviews from key opinion leaders and potential customers * Guided clients in proper to direction for further commercialization of products

* Taught and compiled own discussion material for BIO 305 (Genetics) for a total of six discussion sections over two semesters * Genetics discussion was a lecture and group based learning enviornment * Taught three paper based discussion for MCDB 427 (Molecular Biology) * Held office hours and advised students and learning material

* Chosen to return for an additional summer of research in the lab of Dr. James Collins at Boston University * Conducted research to genetically engineer a retrotransposon based, directed evolution system in yeast

* Selectively chosen through HHMI * Conducted ruminant microbiology research in Dr. Shanna Ivey's laboratory * Research was aimed at studying how nutrition of a dam affects a calf's gut microbiome * Completed and published an undergraduate research thesis

* Summer internship through HHMI in the lab of Dr. James Collins at Boston University * Research was focused on directed evolution and construction of novel genetic circuits, specifically utilizing retrotransposons.

* Help plan and organize preliminary exam for first year students * Help plan and organize guidelines for thesis committee checkpoints * Act as a liaison between MCDB graduate students and faculty

* Serve as a licensing manger for the University of Arizona's College of Pharmacy, College of Medicine-Phoenix, College of Public Health, College of Nursing, and College of Medicine-Tucson. * Negotiate contracts including MTAs, NDAs, options, non-exclusive licenses, and exclusive patent licenses * Support faculty in startup endeavors