Stefanie Noel Sveiven
Oakland,Ca
Summary
Skilled multitasker with superior work ethic and good teamwork, problem-solving and organizational skills. Willing to take on any task to help team. Reliable and dedicated team player with hardworking and resourceful approach.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Postdoctoral Scholar
Stanford University School of Medicine, Pediatrics- Critical Care
07.2023 - Current
- Currently managing two distinct projects in the lab to elucidate molecular drivers of pulmonary angiogenesis during alveolarization
- Accomplishments:
- Applied for two federal grants and 3 fellowships during the first 8 months, receiving one fellowship from Stanford and a federal grant from NIH.
- Established a colony of novel CRISPR-edited mice through backcrossing and screening out off-target Cre-recombinase activity
- Organized and participated in outreach events aimed at promoting public understanding of scholarly research and its implications for society.
Flow Cytometery Core Technician
University of California Riverside School of Medicine, Biomedical Sciences
06.2022 - 07.2023
- Lead maintenance and training of all new users on cytometers in the School of Medicine Core
- Streamlined the training pipeline by developing user friendly protocols and pre-training educational information.
- Generated training material for novice flow cytometry users to become adept at flow cytometry experimental design, sample preparation, instrument utilization, and data analysis.
- Assisted in the development and analysis of experiments
Graduate Student Researcher
University of California Riverside School of Medicine, Biomedical Sciences
07.2018 - 07.2023
- Performed in vivo and in vitro experiments to generate data in the labs of both Tara Nordgren, Ph.D and Meera G Nair, Ph.D
- These projects used lung injury models to identify key regulatory proteins and resident cell types (immune, epithelial, and mesenchymal) involved in the response to injury
- Performed all in vivo infection and exposure experiments
- Published 4 peer-reviewed first author publications, and contributed to 3 other published articles
- Presented research at 2 international conferences, 2 local symposia, and annually for the Science Practice, Scientific Method and Bioethics in Biomedical Sciences Department
- Established 3 transgenic mouse model systems for use in ex vivo 3D culture systems, primary cell culture, and in vivo disease modelling
- Developed projects for and mentored two masters students
- Mentored four undergraduate students: all of whom went on to graduate education (Masters and Medical School)
Chief Research Technician
AutoNation Institute for Breast and Solid Tumor Cancer Research Nova Southeastern University
06.2013 - 06.2018
- Oversaw three lab spaces with 5 graduate students and numerous medical student volunteers to perform clinical and translational research the impacts of DNA repair mechanisms on breast cancer evasiveness, leukemia, autism spectrum disorders, and gulf war illness
- Accomplishments:
- Sole experimentalist for performing the unscheduled DNA synthesis and glycophorin A somatic mutation assays for all the studies
- Managed the flow cytometry analysis core containing analyzer and FACS machines
- Generated and maintained primary human breast cell line repository from tissue samples
- Processed participant blood samples for in vitro analysis, RNA sequencing, and flow cytometric assays
- Trained all incoming lab members on aseptic in vitro techniques
Tutor
Barry University MARC-U*STAR-RISE and self-employed
01.2008 - 06.2018
- From 2008-2013 served as primary tutor for students in MARC-U STAR-RISE program
- From 2010-2018 also tutored privately
- Accomplishments:
- Tutored 25 college students throughout their undergraduate degree, with 20 of them going on to graduate programs (Medical school or PhD programs)
- Courses tutored include: organic chemistry, physics, physical chemistry, biology, anatomy, physiology, and seminar courses in cancer biology
- Tutored 15 students from junior high to high school in subjects such as biology, chemistry, spanish, trigonometry, and calculus.
Research Technician
Nova Southeastern University, School of Pharmacy Pharmaceutical Sciences
06.2013 - 01.2014
- Provided research and academic support to Faculty in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences before being promoted to the AutoNation Institute for Breast and Solid Tumor Cancer Research
- Accomplishments:
- Setup lab experiments and instructed pharmacy students in the compounding lab
- Supported faculty research labs in experiments, equipment management, inventories, and ordering.
Laboratory Assistant
Barry University, Department of Biology and Department of Physical Sciences
01.2009 - 05.2013
- Served as a laboratory assistant for three faculty members in the department for organic chemistry and biology lab classes
- Accomplishments:
- Set up lab activities and generated handouts for students
- Designed and scored quizzes
- Made rubrics and graded weekly laboratory reports
- Instructed students through experiments
- Assisted students during office hours
Student Research Volunteer
Barry University, Department of Biology and Department of Physical Sciences
01.2009 - 05.2011
- Served as a research volunteer in Dr
- Xiotang Hu's lab studying cell cycle control in leukemia; in Dr
- Peter Lin's lab studying the impacts of atrazine on xenopus life cycles; and Dr. Maurizio Giannotti's lab generating a model for the Boltzmann Transport Equation to predict reaction equilibria
- Learned aseptic cell culture technique
- Presented three separate research projects at local research symposia
- Learned to generate and test hypotheses.
Education
Ph.D. -
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, Ca06.2023
Bachelor of Science - Biology
Barry University
Miami Shores, Fl07.2011
Skills
- Manuscript preparation
- Lab leadership and Mentorship
- Communication
- Data Interpretation
- Academic Writing
- Independent Learning
- Interdisciplinary Knowledge
- Research proficiency
- Complex Problem-Solving
- Time Management
- Team Support
- Team Development
Funding
- Pediatric Specialty Loan Repayment Program, National Institutes of Health, 2024-Present
- Stanford Maternal and Child Health Research Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, 2024-2026
Certification
- Carl Zeiss Microscopy, LLC, Conquer the Confocal Certification, 06/01/24
- Chancellor's Making Excellence Inclusive Diversity Certificate, University of California Riverside, 05/01/22
- Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) Training, 02/01/14
Awards
- Postdoctoral Recruitment Initiative in Sciences and Medicine (PRISM), Stanford University, May 2022
- Annual Organizational Award, Division of Biomedical Sciences, University of California Riverside, 2019
- Teaching Assistantship, Medical Education Year 1 'Foundations of Medicine I' and 'Cardiovascular, Renal, & Respiratory Medicine I', 07/01/19, 12/01/19
- Dean's Distinguished Fellowship Award, Division of Biomedical Sciences, University of California Riverside, 2018-2019
Publications
- Myeloid-and epithelial-derived RELMa contribute to tissue repair following lung helminth infection, Sveiven, S. N., Kim, S. Y., Barrientos, V., Li, J., Jennett, J., Asiedu, S., ..., Nair, M. G., Frontiers in parasitology, 2, 2023
- Combating Health Inequities in Pulmonary Inflammation Through Diet and Repair Protein, Sveiven, S. N., Doctoral dissertation, University of California, Riverside, 2023
- Lipid-Sensing Receptor FFAR4 Modulates Pulmonary Epithelial Homeostasis following Immunogenic Exposures Independently of the FFAR4 Ligand Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA), Sveiven, S. N., Anesko, K., Morgan, J., Nair, M. G., Nordgren, T. M., International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 24(8), 7072, 2023
- Milk Consumption and Respiratory Function in Asthma Patients: NHANES Analysis 2007-2012, Sveiven, S. N., Bookman, R., Ma, J., Lyden, E., Hanson, C., Nordgren, T. M., Nutrients, 13(4), 1182, 2021
- Lung-resident mesenchymal stromal cells are tissue-specific regulators of lung homeostasis, Sveiven, S. N., Nordgren, T. M., American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology, 319(2), L197-L210, 2020
- IL-22 regulates inflammatory responses to agricultural dust-induced airway inflammation, Ulu, A., Sveiven, S.N., Bilg, A., Velazquez, J. V., Diaz, M., Mukherjee, M., ..., Nordgren, T. M., Toxicology and applied pharmacology, 446, 116044, 2022
- Sex-specific differences in resolution of airway inflammation in Fat-1 transgenic mice following repetitive agricultural dust exposure, Ulu, A., Velazquez, J. V., Burr, A., Sveiven, S. N., Yang, J., Bravo, C., ..., Nordgren, T. M., Frontiers in Pharmacology, 12, 785193, 2022
- Aspirin-triggered resolvin D1 reduces chronic dust-induced lung pathology without altering susceptibility to dust-enhanced carcinogenesis, Dominguez, E. C., Phandthong, R., Nguyen, M., Ulu, A., Guardado, S., Sveiven, S.N., ..., Nordgren, T. M., Cancers, 14(8), 1900, 2022
- Preliminary evidence for a hormetic effect on DNA nucleotide excision repair in Veterans with Gulf War illness, Latimer, J. J., Alhamed, A., Sveiven, S.N., Almutairy, A., Klimas, N. G., Abreu, M., ..., Grant, S. G., Military medicine, 185(1-2), e47-e52, 2020
Timeline
Postdoctoral Scholar
Stanford University School of Medicine, Pediatrics- Critical Care
07.2023 - Current
Flow Cytometery Core Technician
University of California Riverside School of Medicine, Biomedical Sciences
06.2022 - 07.2023
Graduate Student Researcher
University of California Riverside School of Medicine, Biomedical Sciences
07.2018 - 07.2023
Chief Research Technician
AutoNation Institute for Breast and Solid Tumor Cancer Research Nova Southeastern University
06.2013 - 06.2018
Research Technician
Nova Southeastern University, School of Pharmacy Pharmaceutical Sciences
06.2013 - 01.2014
Laboratory Assistant
Barry University, Department of Biology and Department of Physical Sciences
01.2009 - 05.2013
Student Research Volunteer
Barry University, Department of Biology and Department of Physical Sciences
01.2009 - 05.2011
Tutor
Barry University MARC-U*STAR-RISE and self-employed
01.2008 - 06.2018
Ph.D. -
University of California, Riverside
Bachelor of Science - Biology
Barry University
- Carl Zeiss Microscopy, LLC, Conquer the Confocal Certification, 06/01/24
- Chancellor's Making Excellence Inclusive Diversity Certificate, University of California Riverside, 05/01/22
- Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) Training, 02/01/14
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