Bubacarr J.B Touray
Madison,WI
Summary
Analytical professional with technical knowledge and critical thinking skills to thrive in data-driven environments. Tackles challenges with positivity and drive to overcome. Works great alone or with others and consistently exceeds expectations.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Consultant
WiSolve
Madison, WI
04.2022 - Current
- Prepared accurate and concise reports, conveying progress, issues and solutions.
- Identified risks and assessed potential impact, consulting with clients to prepare mitigation plan.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to gain complete understanding of project goals and objectives.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to contribute recommendations and deliver client objectives.
- Conducted research, surveys and interviews to gain business insights.
- Leveraged proven workflow and technology systems to produce effective strategies for clients.
- Mitigated project conflicts by proactively seeking acceptable outcomes acceptable to stakeholders.
- Identified needs of customers promptly and efficiently.
- Maintained positive working relationship with fellow staff and management.
- Identified areas for improvement, narrowing focus for decision-makers in making necessary changes.
- Implemented strategies to take advantage of new opportunities.
- Set specific goals for projects to measure progress and evaluate end results.
- Created plans to propose solutions to problems related to efficiency, costs or profits.
- Displayed strong telephone etiquette, effectively handling difficult calls.
- Organized client meetings to provide project updates.
Trainee Scientific Officer
Medical Research Council Unit, the Gambia at LSHTM
Banjul, Gambia
01.2019 - 12.2020
- Recruited and hired gifted individuals to build highly productive scientific team for research and analysis.
- Developed and enforced performance standards to guide work consistency and help identify outliers in performance or security.
- Met with managers, vendors and others to solicit cooperation and resolve problems.
- Understood and followed oral and written directions.
- Prioritized and organized tasks to efficiently accomplish service goals.
- Demonstrated leadership by making improvements to work processes and helping to train others.
- Developed standard operating procedure for monocyte extraction and infection
- Isolates peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and determine their quantity and viability
- Harvests monocytes from PBMCs
- Infects monocytes with different strains of mycobacterium tuberculosis complexes (MTBC) in the presence of immunomodulatory agents to assess their effect on bacterial kinetics
- Uses Spectramax i3X to measure absorbance, fluorescence, and luminescence from
- MTBC infected monocytes
- Uses flow cytometry to identify cell populations and determine antibody response
- Extracts RNA from mycobacterium tuberculosis infected human monocytes
- Sequences RNA using the Illumina NextSeq 550 and MiSeq platforms
- Orders laboratory consumables from both local and international vendors
- Business or sector Medical Research / Healthcare
Senior Laboratory Technician
Medical Research Council Unit, the Gambia at LSHTM
Banjul, Gambia
02.2017 - 08.2018
- Collected, labeled and stored lab samples according to laboratory specifications.
- Prepared lab for daily operations by stocking materials and equipment.
- Used time management and adaptability skills to prioritize and run multiple tests.
- Disposed of laboratory materials and samples using well established guidelines and instructions.
- Prepared specimens and forms for transport to outside laboratories.
- Supported cleanliness and health standards to foster safe and effective sample analysis.
- Collected and organized data to perform data analysis and prepare technical reports.
- Managed laboratory supplies and equipment, providing maximum output to meet data deadlines.
- Attended lab meetings to participate in research discussions.
- Developed an SOP for cord blood collection immediately a woman delivers for measurement of maternal iron passed to the neonate
- Collected blood samples from mothers and infants
- Serum and plasma separation
- Used automated biochemistry analyzer (Cobas Integra 400 plus, Roche Diagnostic, Switzerland) to measure serum ferritin, serum iron, UIBC, soluble transferrin receptor (sTfR), transferrin, c-reactive protein (CRP), haptoglobin, and alpha 1-acid glycoprotein
- Managed laboratory and nursing staffs
- Reduced the budget spent on laboratory consumables by minimizing wasteful spending and usage
- Created staff Rota for both laboratory and nursing staffs
- Occasionally engaged in recruiting/sensitizing participants for the study
- Business or sector Medical Research / Healthcare
- Liaised with scientists to test hypotheses and pursue valuable new research.
- Kept lab space and equipment clean to prevent contamination with hazardous substances.
- Interpreted test results and determined need for retesting.
- Participated in extra training and courses to refine and improve upon industry knowledge.
- Analyzed experimental results and determined whether results fit within standard procedures.
- Performed routine checks on sensitive lab equipment to achieve consistent and high-performing functionality.
- Identified and fixed issues with lab equipment to achieve more accurate lab results.
- Used scientific method to assist colleagues and supervisors with experiments.
- Presented experimental findings in presentations with graphs, charts and other visual aids.
- Reviewed experimental data to catch potential lab errors and correct mistakes.
Laboratory Technician
Medical Research Council Unit, the Gambia at LSHTM
Banjul, Gambia
01.2013 - 04.2017
- Completed lab tests and communicated results to supervising staff.
- Maintained, calibrated and troubleshot pH probes, EC meters, balances, automatic pipettes and diluters.
- Assisted and instructed other laboratory technicians.
- Supervised cleaning and maintenance of laboratory equipment to prevent errors and breakdowns.
- Communicated with outside parties and laboratory management regarding test results.
- Recorded known control values from technical instruments to boost reliability and accuracy in test results reporting.
- Gathered biological samples for laboratory tests.
- Audited specimen integrity and identification classifications to maintain accurate records.
- Prepared project files for compliance with operating procedures.
- Updated tracking software with processes, errors and corrective actions.
- Developed specific methods for more difficult and critical tests for special applications.
- Prepared lab for daily operations by stocking materials and equipment.
- Used time management and adaptability skills to prioritize and run multiple tests.
- Disposed of laboratory materials and samples using well established guidelines and instructions.
- Prepared specimens and forms for transport to outside laboratories.
- Collected blood smears and conducts malarial parasite and white blood cell count
- Serum and plasma separation
- Malaria Parasite DNA isolation and conducts polymerase chain reaction for malaria control and drug resistance studies
- Conducted Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using dried blood on filter papers
- Presented activity report at theme meetings
- Trained new staffs on malaria microscopy
- Conducted placental histology for malaria in pregnancy studies
- Stock keeping and requisition of laboratory consumables
- Business or sector Medical Research / Healthcare
- Collected, labeled and stored lab samples according to laboratory specifications.
Trainee Laboratory Technician
Medical Research Council Unit, the Gambia at LSHTM
Banjul, Gambia
01.2012 - 11.2013
- Unit, the Gambia at, www.mrc.gm
- Collected blood samples and isolate DNA using salting-out method for epigenetics studies
- Serum and plasma separation for measurements of electrolytes, micro and macro nutrients
- Conducted routine clinical diagnostic tests such as urinalysis, malaria microscopy, hemoglobin and blood glucose for patients visiting the clinics
- Stock keeping
- Business or sector Medical Research / Healthcare
- Performed quality control procedures to validate test results according to established standards.
- Calibrated and performed routine maintenance to keep laboratory equipment in satisfactory condition.
- Maintained patient, specimen and tracking data using laboratory computer system.
- Followed standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.
- Cleaned and sterilized lab area, tools and equipment.
- Maintained clean and fully operational laboratory equipment.
- Ordered laboratory supplies to maintain inventory stock.
- Used appropriate collection and processing procedures to avoid inadequate specimens and promote reliability of blood products.
- Identified and corrected problems that could adversely affect test performance or reporting of test results.
- Properly documented all variables relative to specimen processing.
- Evaluated and processed biological specimens to support accurate and appropriate testing procedures.
- Coordinated prioritization, receipt and delivery of laboratory specimens.
- Operated equipment to analyze bodily fluids for anomalies.
- Monitored standardized clinical laboratory tests and procedures appropriate to blood banking.
- Designed and executed laboratory testing to record observations and interpret findings.
- Maintained safe work environment by wearing personal protective equipment.
- Analyzed laboratory findings to check accuracy of results.
- Harvested cell cultures based on knowledge of cell cycle differences and culture conditions.
- Conducted medical research under direction of microbiologist or biochemist.
- Obtained, cut and mounted biological material on slides for microscopic study and diagnosis.
- Developed, standardized or modified tests used in analysis of specimens or medical laboratory experiments.
Education
Ph.D. - Comparative Biomedical Sciences
University of Wisconsin-Madison
05.2025
Bachelor of Science - Biomedical Sciences
University of Chester
06.2019
Foundation Degree - Biomedical And Physiological Sciences
University of Westminster
06.2017
Skills
- Assessments
- Continuous Improvement
- Project analysis
- Project management
- Issue resolution
- Strategic Planning
- Client rapport
- Analysis
- Project Implementation
- Reports and documentation
- Customer relationship management
- Application of scientific principles
- Research and publication
- Laboratory equipment functions
- Safety processes and procedures
- Data analytics
- Research methods
- Chemical and molecular analysis
- Research management
- Experiment protocol development
- Lab experiments and research
- Data collection
- Research planning
- Staff management
Accomplishments
- Protective RNA Nanovaccines Against Mycobacterium avium subspecies hominissuis – Submitted on March 11th, 2023, Under peer-review
- Superinfection with SARS-CoV-2 Has Deleterious Effects on Mycobacterium bovis BCG Immunity and Promotes Dissemination of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Early postnatal hypoferremia in low birthweight and preterm babies: A prospective cohort study in hospital-delivered Gambian neonates
- Iron Homeostasis over the First Week of Life: A Prospective Cohort Study in Hospital-Delivered Gambian Neonates
- PRESENTATIONS: 1- Adding community scheduled malaria screening and treatment with artemether- lumefantrine to Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine – Worthy or Not! (Venue: Medical Research Council, Gambia) 2016
- 2- Effect of a mother’s diet at conception on the epigenome of her child (Venue: Medical
- Research Council, Gambia) 2017
- 3- Iron and Infection @ (Venue: Medical Research Council, Gambia) 2017 4- The concentration of iron in neonates 24 hours post-delivery – Evidence of Nutritional
- Immunity (Venue: Medical Research Council, Gambia) 2018
- 5- The Pathophysiology of Gout (Venue: University of Chester) 2019
- 6- Potentiating the Host to Eliminate Tuberculosis - Immunomodulation (Venue: Medical
- Research Council, Gambia) 2019
- 7- Macrophages as an experimental model to study Tuberculosis host-directed therapy (Venue: Medical Research Council, Gambia) 2019.
Timeline
Consultant
WiSolve
04.2022 - Current
Trainee Scientific Officer
Medical Research Council Unit, the Gambia at LSHTM
01.2019 - 12.2020
Senior Laboratory Technician
Medical Research Council Unit, the Gambia at LSHTM
02.2017 - 08.2018
Laboratory Technician
Medical Research Council Unit, the Gambia at LSHTM
01.2013 - 04.2017
Trainee Laboratory Technician
Medical Research Council Unit, the Gambia at LSHTM
01.2012 - 11.2013
Ph.D. - Comparative Biomedical Sciences
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bachelor of Science - Biomedical Sciences
University of Chester
Foundation Degree - Biomedical And Physiological Sciences
University of Westminster
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