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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, UT
07-2020

Bachelor of Science - Physics

Brigham Young University - Idaho
Rexburg, ID
07-2012

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
Kelly McGuire