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BRANDON PAYTON

Raeford

Summary

My mission is to perform professional research with teaching to provoke and enhance new discoveries as an upcoming professional neuroscientist.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Biology Professor

Robeson Community College
01.2025 - Current
  • Facilitated BIO-168 Anatomy & Physiology Instruction Face to Face and online
  • Set up dissection labs for instruction
  • Led and organized sheep brain dissections and fetal pig dissections
  • Identified cortical regions and deep brain structures
  • Collaborated with Science Department for Instructional strategies and methods
  • Summer School Instructor
  • Facilitated BIO-169 Anatomy & Physiology Face to Face
  • Led cat and sheep dissection labs
  • Facilitated BIO-168 Anatomy & Physiology online
  • Served on Interview Committee

Professional Tutor

Sandhills Community College
02.2023 - Current
  • Tutored Community College students in Anatomy & Physiology, Biology, and Chemistry
  • Students obtain 90% average or higher in courses
  • Flexible work schedule to accommodate students

Summer School Sandhoke Early College High School

Hoke County Schools
08.2017 - 12.2024
  • Taught Chemistry and Earth/Environmental Science
  • Developed post pandemic standards for mastery level learning and credit recovery
  • Sandhoke Early College High School
  • Science Instructor for: Biology, Chemistry, Earth/Environmental Science
  • Head of Science Department
  • Collaborated with science colleagues via lesson planning and data analysis
  • Organizing Department goals/Supply Lists
  • Led a Professional Development April 2020
  • Assisted a science instructor new hire with content
  • Advisor of Science National Honor Society
  • Conducted sheep brain dissections

Health Technician

Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center
08.2015 - 09.2015
  • Facilitated data analysis of a Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) report
  • Report consisted of the number of participants consented
  • Participants randomized
  • Summarized the purpose of the study, goals, hypotheses, severe events and adverse events
  • Brain Stimulation Laboratory - Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS)

Research Specialist I

Medical University of South Carolina
07.2014 - 08.2015
  • Organized/Facilitated recruitment for food addiction study using tDCS
  • Assisted Principle Investigators in scheduling research subjects
  • Assisted with entering data into a database
  • Installed research study equipment in laboratory
  • Conducted research study with participants while explaining procedures thoroughly
  • Collaborated results with Principal Investigators about results of study
  • Assisted with research funds and paying subjects
  • Analyzed Electronic Medical Records of cardiovascular patients with MD approval for psychiatry study
  • Brain Stimulation Laboratory and Psychiatry

Professional Chemistry Tutor

Club Z! Tutoring
04.2015 - 05.2015
  • High school chemistry tutor
  • Assisted with balancing chemical reactions, writing chemical compounds
  • Helped with homework assignments
  • Flexible work schedule convenient for students

Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP)

Medical University of South Carolina
05.2013 - 08.2013
  • Research topic: The effects of Chronic Alcohol Exposure on Ryanodine Receptors in OPC of C57BL/6 wild type mice
  • Collected brain samples of C57BL/6 mice
  • Analyzed HEK-293 cells
  • Conducted Western Blot using monoclonal antibodies for Western Blot for Ryanodine receptor
  • Facilitated data collection and analysis
  • Woodward Lab - Institute of Psychiatry

Education

MSc. - Clinical Neuroscience

Parker University
Dallas, TX
08.2025

M.S. - Biological Sciences

Clemson University
Clemson, SC
05.2021

B.S. - Biology with Biomedical Emphasis

University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Pembroke, NC
05.2014

Skills

  • Proficient in Canvas applications
  • Moodle administration
  • Engaging learning methodologies

Community Service

The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, 2011, Present, Member of Lambda Sigma Honor Society, Member of Health Careers Club, Fall 2010 - Spring 2014

Timeline

Biology Professor

Robeson Community College
01.2025 - Current

Professional Tutor

Sandhills Community College
02.2023 - Current

Summer School Sandhoke Early College High School

Hoke County Schools
08.2017 - 12.2024

Health Technician

Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center
08.2015 - 09.2015

Professional Chemistry Tutor

Club Z! Tutoring
04.2015 - 05.2015

Research Specialist I

Medical University of South Carolina
07.2014 - 08.2015

Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP)

Medical University of South Carolina
05.2013 - 08.2013

M.S. - Biological Sciences

Clemson University

B.S. - Biology with Biomedical Emphasis

University of North Carolina at Pembroke

MSc. - Clinical Neuroscience

Parker University

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