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Profile Summary

PERSONAL PROFILE Professional, motivated, and engaged scientist and educator. Committed to exploring and communicating topics in science and nature with a deep-seated desire to share knowledge with others. CURRENT RESEARCH: Membrane bound proteins conduct signaling across cells and regulate the movement of matter in and out of cells. Most drugs target membrane bound proteins, and understanding their structure and function is essential for drug design. I use a variety of techniques to probe the interaction of these membrane proteins with the lipids that form cell walls. I concentrate on atomic level detail, the interaction of individual membrane proteins with their surrounding lipid environments, using solid and solution state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR). As an additional project, I investigate the distribution of lead contamination in New York City soils. Lead exposure poses substantial health risks, especially to children. By investigating distribution of lead, its soil chemistry and its sources, we seek to inform how best to respond to lead as a major health risk. EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE: As a professional high school science teacher I focused on implementing a rigorous curriculum linked to national education standards. I promoted achievement by engaging and motivating students with project-based curricula that sought to add real-world relevancy to classroom experiences. Concerned by the narrow focus and constrained opportunities afforded by many area high schools, I worked to found the NET Charter High School, an open-admissions alternative school for at-risk students who were removed from or failed to thrive at traditional schools.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Biophysics
• ★ Science Education
• ★ Grant Writing
• ☆ Physical Chemistry
• ☆ NMR Spectroscopy
• ☆ Biochemistry
• ☆ Environmental Chemistry
• ☆ Secondary Education

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing

Research Fact Checking, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Data & AI Data Visualization

Work Experience

Open Innovation Project and Prize Challenge Manager

National Institute of Standards and Technology

August 2019 - Present

Research Assistant

Columbia University

June 2016 - August 2019

Teaching Assistant

Columbia University

September 2014 - May 2016

Department Chair

Academy of the Sacred Heart

September 2012 - August 2013

Chemistry Teacher

Academy of the Sacred Heart

September 2010 - August 2013

Board Member

Educators for Quality Altenatives

September 2009 - August 2013

Board President

Educators for Quality Alternatives

June 2010 - July 2011

Physics Teacher

New Orleans Charter Science & Math High School

September 2007 - July 2010

Research Associate

Sterilex, Inc.

January 2007 - August 2007

Education

Doctor of Philosophy (Chemistry)

Columbia University

January 2014 - October 2019

Bachelor of Arts (Chemistry)

Lewis & Clark College

September 2002 - May 2006

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Elizabeth Alverson-Banks Avegno, Scott J. Hasty, Archana R. Parameswar, Gary S. Howarth, Alexei V. Demchenko, Larry D. Byers(2013). Reactive thioglucoside substrates for $\upbeta$-glucosidase . Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 537. (1). p. 1--4. Elsevier {BV}