Kelly McGuire
San Diego,CA
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Postdoctoral Fellow
UCSD
La Jolla, CA
09.2020 - 08.2025
Research Assistant
Huntsman Cancer Institute
Salt Lake City, UT
02.2013 - 08.2013
Education
Ph.D. - Biophysics
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT07-2020
Bachelor of Science - Physics
Brigham Young University - Idaho
Rexburg, ID07-2012
Skills
- Structural biology
- Cryo-EM
- Protein Expression and Purification
- HPLC
- SDS-PAGE
- Western blot
- CryoSparc and Relion
- PyMOL, ChimeraX, and VMD
- COOT
- Molecular Dynamics and Computational Chemistry
- Linux, Python, and MATLAB
Accomplishments
- Awarded postdoctoral fellowship through NYSNO for study of Early Onset Parkinson's Disease via Parkin structure determination
- Full tuition scholarship from BYU Department of Physiology and Developmental Biology
- First place, "Superior Oral Presentation," BYU graduate presentation competition
Affiliations
- Interest and participation in aviation
- 2D and 3D modeling, animation, and VFX
Languages
Portuguese
Professional
Timeline
Postdoctoral Fellow
UCSD
09.2020 - 08.2025
Research Assistant
Huntsman Cancer Institute
02.2013 - 08.2013
Ph.D. - Biophysics
Brigham Young University
Bachelor of Science - Physics
Brigham Young University - Idaho