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Code
Editor-NAW
Experience
20 Years
Academic Field
Physical Sciences
Location
ABD
Areas of Expertise
  • Biochemistry
  • Biology
  • Biomedical Sciences
  • Case Studies
  • Cellular Biology
  • Chemistry
  • Computer Sciences
  • Education
  • Medicine
  • Microscopy
  • Molecular Biology
  • Nursing
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Pharmacology
  • Science
  • Statistics
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science
· Pharmacology (Coop) (Hons/Magna Cum Laude), University of Bristol, 2005

Ph.D.
· Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, 2011

Other
· Statistics, UC San Diego Extension, 2019
· Organic Chemistry, Chandler-Gilbert Community College, 2019

WORK EXPERIENCE
Academic
· Research Assistant, Bradford University, 2005-2006
· Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of British Columbia, 2011-2013
· Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2016-2018

Editor
· Peer Review Editor, Shangai University, 2012-Present
· Medical Editor, West Coast Biomedius, 2014-2018

Other
· Assistant Scientist, Analytic Chemist Laboratories-The Environment Agency, 2006-2007
· Visiting Research Scientist, European-Pepperkok Lab, 2009
· Undergraduate Industrial (COOP) Year, F. Hoffman-La Roche, 2003-2004

PUBLICATIONS
· Determination of key amino acids implicated in the actions of allosteric modulation by 3,3′-difluorobenzaldazine on rat mGlu5 receptors. Mühlemann A, Ward NA, Kratochwil N, Diener C, Fischer C, Stucki A, Jaeschke G, Malherbe P, Porter RH. European Journal of Pharmacology (2006) 529, 95–104.

· Pharmacological chaperones increase the cell surface expression of intracellularly retained mutants of the melanocortin 4 receptor with unique rescuing efficacy profiles. Natalie-Anne Ward, Simon Hirst, John Williams, John B.C. Findlay. Biochemical Society Transactions (2012) 40, 717–720.

· Biochemical characterization of ratfish (Chimaera monstrosa) liver oil; cytotoxic and antineoplastic evaluation in cancer cell lines. Ali Mallakin, Pankaj Taneja, Kazushi Inoue, Natalie Anne Ward, and Hans-Uwe Dahms. Integrative Clinical Medicine (2018). doi: 10.15761/ICM.1000137.

TECHNICAL SKILLS
· Cell culture
· MTT cytotoxic assay
· Advanced molecular biology
· Plasmid DNA extraction
· Agarose gel electrophoresis
· Primer design
· QuikChange site-directed mutagenesis
· SDS-PAGE
· Western blotting
· PCR (+qRT)
· LC/GC-MS
· Protein expression and affinity purification
· Co-immunoprecipitation
· Whole-cell and sandwich ELISA
· Manual tri-colour confocal microscopy
· Automated high-throughput compound screening
· SiRNA knockdown microscopy screening
· Cre-luciferase cAMP accumulation assay
· cAMP accumulation assay
· Radioligand binding
· Fluorescent intracellular calcium mobilisation assay (FLIPR)
· Dual Membrane yeast-2-hybrid system for membrane proteins
FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS/HONORS
· Statistics: 3.6 GPA, UC San Diego Extension, 2019
· Organic Chemistry: 4.0 GPA, Chandler-Gilbert Community College, 2019