Alina Flores

Enthusiastic and motivated recent university graduate with a strong background in biomedical sciences, molecular biology and cell culture. A quick learner with 1 and a half years of experience in undergraduate research using numerous molecular biology techniques and maintaining lab equipment. Eager to apply my commitment to learning new assays and constantly improving on my lab techniques.

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Department of Biology, Northern Arizona University, August 2024- May 2025

• Maintained cell culture, changed media and subculture cells when they reach ~90% confluent
• Seeding microplates from flask containing cell culture
• Counting cells by hemocytometer to determine how many cells are in suspension before seeding a microplate
• Freezing cells and storing them in cryopreservation for later use

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Department of Biology, Northern Arizona University, Feb 2024-May 2024/ Jan 2025-May 2025

• Prepare fecal samples to be used in qPCR
• Run fecal DNA samples in qPCR with different primers such as ureA and glmM to determine presence of H. pylori
• Identified which samples were positive for H.pylori by being able to correctly interpret the data from the qPCR
• Use qPCR to determine which virulence factor is present in each of the fecal DNA samples that tested positive for H. pylori