Present position: Doctoral Research Scholar. Partners in Health/Zanmi Lasante (Zanmi Lasante sister organization to the Boston-based Partners In Health that operates out of Cange in the central plateau of Haiti

Program Director/Global Operations Specialist/Project Manager. Reestavek Freedom Foundation

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Neonatal Unit Outbreak due to Staphylococcus aureus isolates harboring lnuA gene in Argentina. September 16 2006. Guilford College.

Neonatal Unit Outbreak due to Staphylococcus aureus isolates harboring lnuA gene in Argentina. November 18 2006. 2nd Annual State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research Symposium. Raleigh, NC.

Present position: MD, Hematopathologist, University of California, San Diego Health, San Diego, CA

Assistant Professor, Pathology, University of California, San Diego Health, San Diego, CA

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Inhibition of amikacin resistance by external guide sequences." December 1 2006. CSU Fullerton MBRS Seminars.

A. Soler-Bistué, H. Ha, R. Sarno, M. Don, A. Zorreguieta, and M.E. Tolmasky. Antisense external guide sequences targeting aac(6’)-Ib reverse amikacin resistance. 2007. 107th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. Toronto, Canada.

A. Soler-Bistué, H. Ha, R. Sarno, M. Don, A. Zorreguieta, and M.E. Tolmasky. Antisense external guide sequences targeting aac(6’)-Ib reverse amikacin resistance. 2007. XII Annual Meeting of the San Diego Microbology Group, San Diego, CA, USA.

A. Soler Bistue, H. Ha, R. Sarno, M. Don, A. Zorreguieta, and M. Tolmasky. External guide sequences targeting the aac(6')-Ib mRNA induce inhibition of amikacin resistance. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 2007 51 1918-1925 PMID: 17387154

Ramirez, M.S., Don, M., Merkier, A., Soler Bistué, A., Zorreguieta, A., Centrón, D., Tolmasky, M.E. Naturally competent Acinetobacter baumannii isolate as a convenient model for genetic studies. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 2010 48:1488-1490. PMCID: PMC2849597

Present position: Travel registered nurse, AMN Health Care, San Diego, CA.

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Acupuncture Use among People with HIV/AIDS (PHA) in Northern Thailand: Motives, Barriers, & Attitudes." November 17 2006. CSU Fullerton MBRS Seminars.

A. Arbisi and R. Panpanich. Acupunture use among people living with HIV/AIDS in Northern thailand: motives, barriers, and attitudes. J Med Assoc Thai 2008 91 533-541

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Pesticide Exposure Among Adolescents in Northern Thailand." October 6 2006. CSU Fullerton MBRS Seminars.

S. Sanchez, V. Merrill, and A. Montes. Pesticide exposure among adolescents in Chiang Rai, Thailandt. Submitted to American Public Health Association annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., Nov. 2007.

A. Montes, S. Sanchez, P. Kanthawee, and J. Pratumanon. Pesticide Exposure in Youth: A Continuing Global Threat. Submitted to National Environmental Health Association 71st Annual Educational Conference & Exhibition, Atlantic City, NJ

Present position Research Assistant and Academic Mentor Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance, Garden Grove, CA

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Alcohol use among Tahi youth." May 2008. MARC Seminar series CSUF.

Present position: Health Emergency Operations Coordinator; Epidemiology & Assessment Department; Orange County Health Care Agency, Santa Ana, CA

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Pesticide Exposure Among Adolescents in Northern Thailand." October 6 2006. CSU Fullerton MBRS Seminars

S. Sanchez, V. Merrill, and A. Montes. Pesticide exposure among adolescents in Chiang Rai, Thailandt. Submitted to American Public Health Association annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., Nov. 2007

A. Montes, S. Sanchez, P. Kanthawee, and J. Pratumanon. . Pesticide Exposure in Youth: A Continuing Global Threat. Submitted to National Environmental Health Association 71st Annual Educational Conference & Exhibition, Atlantic City, NJ

Present position: Senior Scientist, Illumina, Inc., San Diego, CA

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Changes in the Topology of the pSDC203 plasmid DNA due (r)to Osmoregulation" January 5 2007. Minority opprtunities in research. CSU Los Angeles. http://www.calstatela.edu/centers/moreprograms/Abstracts/sorto.html

Role of replicative transposons in plasmids' host range expansion: implications in dissemination of antibiotic resistance. September 2006. International Symposium on Plasmid Biology. Fallen Leaf Lake, South Lake Tahoe, CA.

Role of replicative transposons in plasmids' host range expansion: implications in dissemination of antibiotic resistance. 1/2007. 19th Annual Biotechnology Symposium. CSUPERB. Los Angeles, CA.

C. Possoz, J. Newmark, N. Sorto, D. Sherratt, and M. Tolmasky. Sublethal Concentrations of the aminoglycoside amikacin interfere with cell division without affecting chromosome dynamics. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 2007 51 252-256 PMID: 17043119

S. Trigueros, T. Tran, N. Sorto, J. Newmark, S. Colloms, D. J. Sherratt, and M. E. Tolmasky. mwr Xer site-specific recombination is hypersensitive to DNA supercoiling. Nucleic Acids Research 2009 37 3580-3587 PMID: 19359357

Present position: Resident Physician, Neurological Surgery, Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland, OR

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Extracellular matrix proteins modify the effect of lysophosphatidic acid on oligodendrocyte precursors. September 2006. CNSM annual research symposium, CSU Long Beach.

Present position: Senior Scientist, Novoron Bioscience, San Diego, CA

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Interaction between Pseudomonas aeruginosa and cyclodextrin treated lung epithelial cells: implications in cyclodextrin assisted drug delivery through the lungs." January 5 2007. Minority opprtunities in research. CSU Los Angeles. http://www.calstatela.edu/centers/moreprograms/Abstracts/dotsey.html

Present position: PhD Graduate student at John Hopkins School of Medicine

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Towards the Purification of Saccharomyces cerevisiae MAD3. 2007. 19th Annual Biotechnology Symposium. CSUPERB. Los Angeles, CA.