Sol Choi
Columbia Heights,MN
Summary
Dedicated PhD candidate with 7+ years' research expertise in microbiology and molecular biology. Managed and executed numerous projects involving 7+ microbes, from E. coli to strict anaerobes. Skilled in tackling complex challenges using innovative approaches. Ready to contribute from September 2023.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Graduate Research Assistant
University Of Minnesota - Twin Cities | Bond Lab
08.2018 - Current
- Published a 1st-author (selected for Editor's pick) and 1 co-author papers. 1st-author paper in preparation. Presented research at 1 invited seminar, 3 oral, and 4 poster sessions.
- Mentored 3 undergraduate and 1 graduate student. Supervised 1 undergraduate thesis.
- Acquired total $2440 for conference & travel grants.
- Led a project identifying periplasmic c-type cytochromes involved in extracellular electron transfer in anaerobic electroactive bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens.
- Led project discovering a new regulatory system controlling expression of inner membrane cytochrome in G. sulfurreducens and investigating redox sensing capability of a sensor histidine kinase.
- Engineered on-genome high-level gene expression system, which enabled easy characterization of genes in Geobacter. This system facilitated research published in Nature Microbiology (Wang et al., 2022) which I co-authored.
- Created a comprehensive panel of > 70 genetically engineered strains to characterize genes for two large projects.
- Designed and conducted promoter-reporter gene fusion experiments.
Undergraduate Researcher
University Of Delaware | Hanson Lab | Biddle Lab
05.2016 - 03.2018
- Mentored 1 high school student.
- Designed plasmids and primers for Gibson assembly cloning in anaerobic sulfur-oxidizing bacterium Chlorobaculum tepidum.
- Isolated and cultivated microbes from Arctic tundra soil, followed by phylogenetic analysis.
- Examined effect of temperature on growth rate of bacteria, isolated from horseshoe crab eggs, which produce antimicrobial compounds.
- Completed field- and lab-oriented courses in research, including observation, hypothesis generation, data collection, and presentation, as well as data visualization and statistical analysis using R.
Education
Ph.D. - Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN09.2023
Bachelor of Science - Environmental Science
University of Delaware
Newark, DE12.2017
Skills
- Aerobic & Anaerobic Microbiology
- Microbial Strain Engineering
- Molecular Biology/Cloning
- Microbial Electrochemistry
- Microbial Assays
- Python, R
- MS-Office
- GraphPad Prism, Inkscape, GIMP
Timeline
Graduate Research Assistant
University Of Minnesota - Twin Cities | Bond Lab
08.2018 - Current
Undergraduate Researcher
University Of Delaware | Hanson Lab | Biddle Lab
05.2016 - 03.2018
Ph.D. - Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Bachelor of Science - Environmental Science
University of Delaware
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