name: Harrison Jas Tom
label: Research Assistant
email: hjt@harrisontom.com
phone: (510) 301-8971
summary: Working with large molecule quantitative analyses using Drosophila melanogaster as the model organism. I enjoy doing photography during my free time, mostly taking portraits but I'm open to just take my camera out and take pictures of anything I find interesting.
address:
postalCode: 94806
city: San Pablo
countryCode: US
region: California


"work": {
"name": { Cleary Lab
location: Merced, CA
description: Quantitative Systems Biology Laboratory
position: Research Assistant
url: http://faculty.ucmerced.edu/mcleary4
startDate: 2017-05-10
endDate: 2019-05-20
summary: Perform EC-tagging on larvae central nervous system and peripheral nervous system to understand mRNA decay networks
highlights: Confirm EC-tagging with "pulse-chase" method developed in Cleary Lab. Antibody stain rRNA in neuroblasts to track potential inheritance of ribosomes in the neurons. Dissect stage L3 larvae for brain and peripheral nervous system.


institution: University of California, Merced
area: Molecular & Cell Biology, Psychology
studyType: Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Arts
startDate: 2015-08-20
endDate: 2019-05-20
gpa: 3.929, 3.549
courses: BIO 184 - Object Oriented Programming for Biologists, BIO 180 - Mathematical Modeling for Biologists, BIO 170 - Neurobiology, BIO 140 - Genetics, BIO 101 - Biochemistry, CHEM 100 - Organic Synthesis and Mechanisms, PSY 183 - Human Behavioral Genetics


"awards":{
title: "ASUCM Academic Affairs Fellowships and Undergraduate Research Symposium (FURS)"
date: 2017-04-15
awarder: Associated Students of UC Merced
summary: Received for conducting my experiment on the confirmation of EC-tagging along with a newly developed "pulse-chase" approach


"skills": {
name: EC tagging, RNA extraction, Antibody staining, larval dissections

language: Chinese, English
fluency: Fluent, Fluent

"interests": {
name: Photography
keywords:
items: Canon, Nikon, Photoshop, Lightroom