CV
for more infomation here is a link to my full CV
Education
- Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology, Division of Genetics and Development, 2002
- Laboratory of Gerald M. Rubin; University of California, Berkeley, California
- Bachelor of Science in Biology, Magna Cum Laude, 1993
- Tufts University, College of Arts and Sciences, Medford, Massachusetts
Current Work
- Professor of Neuroscience, Biology, and Data Science, 2002 to present
- Westminster College Salt Lake City, UT
- Assistant from 2002-2007, Associate 2007-2013, promoted to Professor in 2013
- Teach courses in Neuroscience and Biology. My teaching is very collaborative, active, and experiential with a focus on data gathering, data analysis, and reading and understanding primary literature. I have created many courses as well as large collections of lab and classroom activities.
- Mentored dozens of undergraduate research students. Many of these students have continued their studies in graduate and professional programs. My students and I are interested in studying genetic diversity and how it affects the phenotypes of various organisms. For the last few years, we have concentrated on how different genotypes can affect complex behaviors in humans and the population genetics of the brine shrimp, Artemia, from Great Salt Lake in UT.
Skills
- College Teaching
- Recent Courses: Neurogenetics, Genetics of Human Behavior, Scientific Computing, Stem Cells and Development, Cell Biology of Cancer, Advanced Topics in Neuroscience, Cellular Neuroscience
- Laboratory Research
- Projects: genetic variation in populations (human, brine shrimp, parasites), genetic data analysis, neural stem cells
- See Publications and Presentations for results
- Data Analysis
- Reasonably proficient in R and Python for data cleaning and analysis
- Basic statistics knowledge (graphing, summary statistics, regression, ANOVA)
Service and Leadership
- McNair program faculty, 2004-present
- WCore committee (liberal education), 2017-present
- Learning community faculty including TIDES project - 2014-present
- Griffin Gear-Up admitted first-year student advisor – 2016-present
Recent Publications
Riddle MR, Baxter BK and Avery B; Molecular Identification of Microbes Associated with the Brine Shrimp Artemia franciscana. Aquatic Biosystems. 9:7 (8 March 2013)
Hooker P, Deutschman W, and Avery B; The Biology and Chemistry of Brewing: An Interdisciplinary Course. J. Chem. Educ., 2014, 91(3), pp 336-339. (cover)
Hu H, Avery BJ. CS Principles with POGIL Activities as a Learning Community. Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 2015, 31(2), pp 79-86.
DeLoughery E, Avery B, DeLoughery T. Retrospective study of rFVIIa, 4-factor PCC, and a rFVIIa and 3-factor PCC combination in improving bleeding outcomes in the warfarin and non-warfarin patient. Am J Hematol, 91(7):705-708, July 2016.
Recent Talks
May 02, 2017
Talk at csv,conf, Portland, OR
August 06, 2017
Talk at CSAIL, Hood River, OR
August 11, 2017
Talk at 2017 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, OR
October 17, 2017
Talk at Grand Rounds Research Reproducibility, University of Utah, Eccles Health Sciences Library, Salt Lake City, UT
June 18, 2018
Talk at Conference: Building Research Integrity Through Reproducibility, Salt Lake City, UT
Previous Work Experience
- PhD candidate and Graduate Student Instructor, 1997-2002
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
- Examined the role of the fly LRP (dLRP) as well as two related mouse proteins, LRP5 and LRP6, in Wnt signaling and development. Including a yeast-two-hybrid screen with the intracellular domain of dLRP to identify new proteins that interact, and biochemical and functional assays in Drosophila, Xenopus, and C. elegans to characterize novel Wnt pathway proteins.
- Senior Research Associate, 1995 to 1997
- Exelixis Inc., San Francisco, CA
- Developed gene trapping in mouse ES cells, managed a gene trap screen, and made improvements to the technology.
- Research Associate, 1993 to 1995
- ImmunoGen, Inc., Cambridge, MA
- Designed, engineered, expressed, and purified humanized antibodies and identified and characterized new molecules involved in programmed cell death.
