Samuel Aleksanian

- Manage operations and human relations - Control hygiene and food safety - Develop sales strategies and provide high level of customer service - Control Inventory and oversee purchases - Research new merchandising opportunities

- Synthesized and characterized block copolymers having a hydrophobic and hydrophilic block with disulfide bonds positioned repeatedly along main backbone - Developed and analyzed thermo-responsive hydrogels for tissue engineering purposes - Performed techniques such as UV-Vis and fluorescence spectroscopy, gel permeation chromatography, gas chromatography, 1HNMR, dynamic light scattering, fluorescence microscopy and rheometry.

- Taught students essential chemistry theory and concepts - Lead general chemistry and analytical chemistry laboratories - Helped students understand and perform the requested experiments

- Researched protein-protein interactions in the absorption of iron by bacteria - Performed techniques such as enzyme digests, plasmid ligations, DNA cloning, E.Coli cell transformations, immunology, DNA separation by gel electrophoresis, GFP tagging of proteins, SDS-PAGE, western blotting, protein purification, UV, IR and fluorescence spectroscopy

- Extracted semi-volatile products (PCB, Halides, explosives, phenols, phthalates) from soil or other matrixes - Performed instrument calibration (balances, pipettes and others) and verified their status - Followed SOPs to ensure accuracy and quality of work - Controlled the quality of extractions and data up to industry standards - Provided input for corrective action procedures

- Received water, oil and soil samples from customers - Worked with customers to ensure proper analyses were done on sampels - Labeled samples according to analyses asked and brought them to the proper laboratory for processing - Determined if sampling was properly done by customers

Study of stimuli-responsive degradation using a disulfide platform in different polymeric biomaterials