General Proficiencies: March 2013 – July 2015
• Inspired, guided and encouraged team members to meet project goals by coordinated activities to accomplish research goals, and group presentations
• Participated in a NSF-OCE study that led to the advisement of a new potential indicator for a hazard in the James River system.
• Promoted peers adherence to specified project goals from administration, in addition to providing findings/adaptations to the supervisor for consideration.
• Utilized good biological laboratory concepts and principles, to include taxonomic, oral and writing communication skills to prepare, identify and preserve a wide variety of insect specimens.
• Studied the life cycles and body processes of organisms their …show more content…
• Applied taxonomic skills to differentiate various zooplankton of the James River.
• Helped in the care and creation of zooplankton cultures used in experimentation.
Works and Presentations
Kristine Grayson, Dylan Parry, Derek Johnson, Nora Krajah, Dominique Grim (November 2013). Local adaptation in larval performance across the latitudinal range of the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar, in North America, Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting, Austin Texas. (Poster)
Hasan Alkhairo, Dominique Grim (May 2013). Characterization of gene families and genome features from VCU’s collection of mycobacteriophages: Repressor proteins, Fourth Annual Symposium on Bacteriophage Genome Analysis, Richmond Virginia. (Presentation)
Relevant Experience
Natural Heritage Foundation, Department of Conservation and Recreation: Volunteer, Richmond Virginia April – May
• Inspired, guided and encouraged team members to meet project goals by coordinated activities to accomplish research goals, and group presentations
• Participated in a NSF-OCE study that led to the advisement of a new potential indicator for a hazard in the James River system.
• Promoted peers adherence to specified project goals from administration, in addition to providing findings/adaptations to the supervisor for consideration.
• Utilized good biological laboratory concepts and principles, to include taxonomic, oral and writing communication skills to prepare, identify and preserve a wide variety of insect specimens.
• Studied the life cycles and body processes of organisms their …show more content…
• Applied taxonomic skills to differentiate various zooplankton of the James River.
• Helped in the care and creation of zooplankton cultures used in experimentation.
Works and Presentations
Kristine Grayson, Dylan Parry, Derek Johnson, Nora Krajah, Dominique Grim (November 2013). Local adaptation in larval performance across the latitudinal range of the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar, in North America, Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting, Austin Texas. (Poster)
Hasan Alkhairo, Dominique Grim (May 2013). Characterization of gene families and genome features from VCU’s collection of mycobacteriophages: Repressor proteins, Fourth Annual Symposium on Bacteriophage Genome Analysis, Richmond Virginia. (Presentation)
Relevant Experience
Natural Heritage Foundation, Department of Conservation and Recreation: Volunteer, Richmond Virginia April – May