Science Officer at Douglass Hanly Moir Pathology
Albury Area, Australia
Science Officer at Douglass Hanly Moir Pathology
Albury Area, Australia
Post graduate currently working as a science officer at Douglass Hanly Moir Pathology Lab.
Open to cross-disciplinary research. Interested and looking to specialize in the fields of bacteriology, virology, cancer cytopathology and molecular genetics.
Enthusiastic in pursuing further studies into molecular research especially in regards to neoplastic tumours.
Microbiology, histological techniques, cellular and molecular biology and techniques.
(Hospital & Health Care industry)
April 2009 — Present (8 months)
Multi-disciplinary function, currently specialising in histology, blood banking and blood morphology diagnosis.
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)
July 2008 — October 2008 (4 months)
Laboratory demonstrator for the following subjects,
1. Microbiology - Demonstrated and assisted in the teaching of first year internal and distance education students practical microbiology (e.g aseptic techniques, microscopy, bacterial and fungal plate culturing).
2. Cytogenetics - Demonstrated and assisted in the teaching of second year internal and distance education students practical cytogenetics (e.g tissue culturing and chromosome karyotyping).
3. Advance Immunohematology - Demonstrated and assisted in the teaching of third year distance education students practical advance immunohematology (eg. coagulation tests, blood antibody grouping, blood slide examination of diseases such as myelofibrosis and leukemias).
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)
February 2008 — June 2008 (5 months)
Laboratory demonstrator for second year haematology. Demonstrated and assisted in the teaching of second year internal and distance education students in practical haematology (e.g. blood slide examination of diseases such as anaemia and leukemias, coagulation tests, osmotic fragility tests, etc).
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)
November 2007 — December 2007 (2 months)
Blood film examination for Howell Jolly Bodies on research into organophosphate exposure with farmers.
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)
September 2007 — September 2007 (1 month)
Laboratory demonstrator for first year microbiology. Demonstrated and assisted in the teaching of first year distance education students in practical microbiology (e.g. aseptic techniques, bacterial and fungal plate culturing, microscopy, etc).
(Non-Profit; Biotechnology industry)
August 2006 — September 2006 (2 months)
Laboratory assistant in a New South Wales Department of Primary Industries Lupin breeding program. Assisted in the culturing of pure fungal isolates as well as DNA extraction and PCR of genetic material from fungal isolates.
(Privately Held; Online Media industry)
November 2004 — February 2006 (1 year 4 months)
General content writer with movie and music cd reviews. Specializing in life and relationship articles.
(Public Company; Newspapers industry)
January 2001 — August 2001 (8 months)
Freelance PC games reviewer.
Honours , Medical Science , 2008 — 2009
Honours research in to coincidental correlations between macrophages and the bacteria Chlamydia pneumoniae within artherosclerotic plaques.
Bachelor of Science , Applied Medical Biotechnology / Medical Science (Pathology) , 2004 — 2008
Twinned from University College Sedaya International in Malaysia where I was to complete my degree in Applied Medical Biotechnology. Changed course to a double degree in 2006 to a Bachelor of Science in Applied Medical Biotechnology and Medical Science (Pathology).
Major , Applied Medical Biotechnology , 2003 — 2004
Enrolled in a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Medical Biotechnology. Course takes 18 months in which the credits will be transferred to Charles Sturt University in Australia to be completed there.