Sarah Merkel

Undergraduate Research Assistant at North Carolina State University in the Plant Pathology/Microbiology department. Duties include:

• Routine sterilization of experiment components.
• Performing sterilization tests of experiment components.
• Performing fungal plug cultures.
• Making minimal media, agar plates, and other media for experimenting.
• Performing safe and sterile work under a fume hood and bio safety cabinet.
• Making sure all components of experiment are written down in an organized and accessible format.
• Performing tasks including but not limited to Hemocytometer counting, Quality of experiment observations, Quality control tests, Data entry, etc...

Research Associate Intern at Lucas Research tasked with Patient Care and Laboratory work. Duties included:

• Performing Phlebotomy testing.
• Performing Glucose, Lipid, Glucose tolerance, and A1c testing.
• Performing Liver Ultrasounds to check for potential fibrosis and Steatohepatitis.
• Checking in patients and ensuring they are happy and comfortable during their visit.
• Ensuring patient information is correct and entered into the database correctly.
• Ensuring billing and post appointment data is correct.