Pathik Desai Resume PDF
Pathik Desai Resume PDF
Pathik Desai Resume PDF
Core Competencies
Cell Culture: Primary immune cells, Mammalian (THP1, Raji, RAMOS, H929, HEK-293, RAW 264.7, PANC-1), SF9, SF13
Protein Analytics: Purification (Affinity, SEC, SCX, AEX, IMAC); UF/DF; MSD, Delfia, A280, HPLC, UPLC, Pierce 660.
Molecular Biology: Reporter assays, SiRNA, Plasmid Purification and isolation; DNA & RNA extraction; RT-PCR; qPCR.
Software: FlowJo, SAS JMP, Unicorn 7.0, EMPOWER, Chemstation, Sparklink, ELN-LIMS, Graphpad, Compass, Licor, Dotmatics.
Equipment: AKTA Pure 25, AKTA Avant 25, AKTA Avant 150, AKTA Explorer, Agilent 1200, Waters Acquity, Bio-Rad Imager, LICOR,
Charles River endotoxin reader, Alias Auto Sampler, Scilog TFF, Protein Simple WES and PEGGY.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
QC Associate I (Contract), Molecular Biology, Brammerbio, Cambridge, MA October 2017- January 2018
Perform qPCR and ELISA to determine AAV2 and AAV6 Viral titers.
Instrument Validation in accordance to cGMP regulations
Research Assistant, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA April 2016- December 2016
Purify His tagged proteins.
Treat Murine Macrophages and analyze lysates to study activation of various secondary messengers.
Genotype mice using agarose gel electrophoresis.
SEMINARS/ WORKSHOPS:
Basic experimental setup for Gene-Editing with Crispr/Cas systems. -The Zhang Lab, Broad Institute
Building biological systems, Genome synthesis and genome editing -Coursera
EDUCATION
ACADEMIC PROJECT
Project: Compare antioxidant activity of three plants of the family Zingiberaceae, Namely zingiber officinale, curcuma amada and
curcuma longa.