Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Post-Doctoral Fellow
2024 - Present
Key responsibilities:
Funding applications
Conducting research (performing experiments, analyzing data)
Service and maintenance of laboratory
Career development
National Zoological Gardens (SANBI)
DST-NRF Internship (Stage)
2017 - 2018
Key responsibilities:
Served as intern representative (organizing monthly meetings, taking and submitting meeting minutes, and dealing with grievances).
Created a primer database for all primers used in the labs by name, sequence, and species specificity.
Successfully acquired a replacement part for a Gel Doc that had been broken for over a year.
Ordered and received primers and other reagents.
Did a mini research project on Methylation Sensitive PCR.
General lab duties (e.g., temperature monitoring, waste disposal, tip packing, autoclaving water).
Presenting at the Postgraduate Development Program (PDP) forum.
Workshop on Population Genetics (NZG).
Progress reports to NRF.
University of Pretoria
Technical assistant (Prof A.C. Oettlé)
2010
Key responsibilities:
Sorting and curating tissue and bone specimens.
Data collection on skeletal measures of the jaw.
Preparing educational material for comparative anatomy.