Hanpeng Chen
Seattle,WA
Summary
A current biochemistry-major freshman who have abundant wet-lab and research experience as well as a consistent passion for biological research. Holds a precise yet open attitude towards individual and team work, and is willing to pursuing productive and informative research opportunities.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Research Mentee
Science Youth Intensive Program
10.2022 - 07.2023
- Learned about protein behaviors under various conditions and with different chaperone molecules that maintain enzyme functions.
- Learned and practiced simulating ligands and enzyme behaviors under different temperatures, gaussian hill heights, and solvents using Maestro.
- Learned and practiced basic biochemistry lab skills and safety rules, interpretation of HPLC results, LC/MS results, and genome sequencing results.
- Practiced college-grade academic research and collaboration skills, including topic initializing, literature finding, experiment designing and optimizing, resource managing, etc.
- Collaborated with other mentees to analyze experimental data and form appropriate hypotheses, then shared them via formal report.
Team Leader
IGEM Competition 2022
02.2022 - 12.2022
- Took charge of research to find new synthetic pathways as substitutions for conventional ones to extract Astragalin.
- Developed lab skill brochure based on personal experiences and mentor advice to accelerate newcomers' customization to lab rules and techniques.
- Connected with other teams online to discuss collaboration plans, lab progress, and human practice activity plans.
- Distributed appropriate tasks to leader assistants based on skill familiarity, and monitored team member performance against established objectives during weekly group reviews, offering praise for achievements and/or providing advice for areas requiring further development.
- Undertook the role of main experiment content presenter and main respondent in the final Q&A session.
Volunteer Teacher
“Reach The Cloud” Online Voluntary Teaching Club
10.2020 - 09.2022
- Taught English reading classes for exam preparations and hosted office hours for 23 students from Dazi middle school in Lhasa.
- Helped to design agendas for other courses and supported as a teaching assistant to compile lecture notes and homework grading.
Volunteer Teacher
“Red Flowers” Inter-School Voluntary Teaching Club
05.2021 - 07.2022
- Managed a 19-member group to provide recorded course sessions with diverse contents including poetry and visual arts weekly for primary school students ranging from grade 4 to grade 6 in Qinghai Province.
- Established efficient methods of communication with WeChat and Email to update necessary information and notices between management team and sub-groups under 17 partner schools.
- Checked course contents submitted by teaching and research groups and granted permissions to approved courses.
Laboratory Team Leader
IGEM Competition 2021
02.2021 - 12.2021
- Transformed E. coli to express genes encoding glucuronidase, and used enzymes for synthesis of glycerrhetinic acid in order to avoid toxic by-products produced by traditional chemistry synthesis approaches.
- Held weekly meetings for discussions and brainstorming; assisted in group training for team members, coordinated with distribution of assigned work, and ensured overall team progress.
- Coached and helped team members to use lab facilities, and took charge of experiments.
- Assisted in team’s Biodoodle Book Project and made constructive contributions to its launch; organized online fundraising events with a total sales amount of 700+ US dollars.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Biochemistry
University of Washington
Seattle, WA06.2027
Skills
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Basic lab reagent making (LB culture media, agarose gel, etc)
- Pipette using
- Bacteria culturing
- Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
- Gibson Assembly
- Designing primers in Snapgene
- Maestro using
- Chimera and Autodock Vina using
- Avogadro using
- Basic Python and Matplotlib skills
Certification
- iGEM Gold Award - 2021
- iGEM Gold Award - 2022
- Global Gold Award, British Biology Olympiad - 2022
- National Silver Award, Canadian Open Mathematics Challenge - 2020
- National Bronze, Physics Bowl (Division 1) - 2021
Hobbies
Leisure Swimmer, Cyclist (Currently in Husky Cycling Club), Sci-Fi lover, Guitar player, cucurbit flute player, Video Gamer, Technology Fan, ACGN lover
Languages
Chinese (Mandarin)
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Research Mentee
Science Youth Intensive Program
10.2022 - 07.2023
Team Leader
IGEM Competition 2022
02.2022 - 12.2022
Volunteer Teacher
“Red Flowers” Inter-School Voluntary Teaching Club
05.2021 - 07.2022
Laboratory Team Leader
IGEM Competition 2021
02.2021 - 12.2021
Volunteer Teacher
“Reach The Cloud” Online Voluntary Teaching Club
10.2020 - 09.2022
Bachelor of Science - Biochemistry
University of Washington
- iGEM Gold Award - 2021
- iGEM Gold Award - 2022
- Global Gold Award, British Biology Olympiad - 2022
- National Silver Award, Canadian Open Mathematics Challenge - 2020
- National Bronze, Physics Bowl (Division 1) - 2021
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