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Caroline Hilburn
3460 Eola Dr. NW
Salem, OR 97304
United States of America
503.269.2450
[email protected]
Education
2010 Bachelors Degree in Biochemistry and Biophysics from Oregon
State University GPA:3.92
2005/06 One year at Seefeld Gymnasium, Thun, Switzerland
2005 Graduate of West Salem High School (Salutatorian)
Awards
2009 Donald McDonald Scholarship Award
2008 Milton Harris Scholarship Award2007 Drucilla Shepard Smith
Award for academic excellence
2007 Runner up in the HHMI research symposium
Research Awards
2008/09 Rhabditophanes, an Oregonian nematode as a model for the
genetics of parasitism
Undergraduate Research, Innovation, Scholarship and Creativity
(URISC) award
for winter 2008 and spring 2009
2007 A Survey of Soil Nematodes Across Western Oregon
HHMI Research Grant for summer
Publications
A Survey of Western Oregon Soil Nematodes
Caroline Hilburn and Dee Denver,The Catalyst, Oregon State
University Undergraduate Research Journal, 2008/2009
Molecular evolution inPanagrolaimus nematodes: origins of
parthenogenesis, hermaphroditismand the Antarctic speciesP.
davidi
Lewis SC, Dyal LA, Hilburn CF, Weitz S, Liau WS, LaMunyon CW,
Denver DR
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9:15 (16 January 2009)
Presentations/Conferences
2009 Rhabditophanes, a free-living nematode with a parasitic
pastWest Coast BiologicalSciences Undergraduate Research (WCBSUR)
Conference
2008 The AA Genotype of the Regulatory BCL2 Promoter
Polymorphism (-938C>A) is
Associated with Adverse Outcome in Patients with Prostate
Carcinoma Oregon StateUniversity HHMI Symposium
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2006 A Survey of Western Oregon Soil Nematodes University of
Washington HHMI
Symposium2006 A Survey of Western Oregon Soil Nematodes Oregon
State University HHMI
Symposium
2004 National Junior Science & Humanities Symposium2003 A
Novel Method of Tracking Migratory Butterflies National Junior
Science &
Humanities Symposium
Research Experience
Research Intern, University Duisburg-Essen, Pediatric Oncology
Lab, Germany
Summer 2008Duties: Independent as well as collaborative research
into the impact of oncogene SNPs on
outcome for cancer patients, DNA extraction from blood and
tissue samples, PCR, genotyping,
small animal handling
Student Researcher in the Dr. Dee Denver Lab, Zoology
Department, OSU
Winter 06 - Fall 09
Duties: General lab maintenance, preparation of stock solutions,
preparation of nematode growth
materials such as agar plates andE. coli, worm maintenance and
culture, sample collection, DNAextraction, primer design, PCR, DNA
sequence alignment and analysis, mitochondrial genome
assembly, data analysis and presentation, new protocol
development, collaborative andindependent research into the genetic
basis of evolution in nematodes
Lab Technician, Plant Pathology Lab, Plant Division, Oregon
Department of AgricultureSummer 2005
Duties: General lab maintenance and cleaning, screening and
certification of grass seed samples
for export, nematode extraction and identification from soil
samples
Other Work Experience
Study Facilitator, Academics for Student Athletes, Oregon State
UniversityFall 2009- Spring 2010
Duties: Assist student athletes with organization and time
management skills, provide one on
one tutoring in a variety of subjects including English writing,
mathematics, biology, chemistryand physics
Languages
Fluent in English, German
References
Laura Smithers, Academics for Student Athletes Learning Services
Counselor, Oregon State
University, [email protected], Tel.: (541)
231-0330
Dr. rer. Nat. Kathy Astrahantseff, Department of Pediatric
Oncology and Haematology,
University Childrens Hospital, Essen, Germany,
[email protected], Tel.: +49
201-723 2502
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]
