Present position: Senior Research Associate, Genomatica, San Diego CA

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: D. Carpio, A. Soler-Bistué, J. Joaquín, H. Ha, A. Zorreguieta, and M.E. Tolmasky. RNase P based antisense strategy to combat resistance to antibiotics in pathogenic bacteria. Dimensions 2009 11:6

A. Soler Bistué, F. Martín, H. Ha, J. Joaquín, D. Carpio, A. Zorreguieta, and M.E. Tolmasky, M. Locked nucleic acid-containing external guide sequences induce amikacin susceptibility in Escherichia coli harboring aac(6')-Ib. 2009. 109th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Philadelphia, PA.

Soler Bistue, A. J., et al. (2009). "Inhibition of aac(6')-Ib-mediated amikacin resistance by nuclease-resistant external guide sequences in bacteria." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106(32): 13230-13235

Present position: Adjunct faculty, Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana, Indianapolis, IN

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: The Synthesis of an Antibody against the Alpha Subunit of the Glucosidase II enzyme in S. pombe; California State University, Dominguez Hills – Student Research Day (SRD), November 2007; California State University, Dominguez Hills

O. Uzomah, C.A. Labriola, A.J. Parodi, and C. D'Alessio. The Synthesis of an Antibody against the Alpha Subunit of the Glucosidase II enzyme in S. pombe; Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS), October 2007; Kansas City, Missouri (Poster)

O. Uzomah, C.A. Labriola, A.J. Parodi, and C. D'Alessio. The Synthesis of an Antibody against the Alpha Subunit of the Glucosidase II enzyme in S. pombe; Experimental Biology Conference (EB 2008), April 2008; San Diego, California (Poster)

Present position: Emergency Medicine Physician. Piedmont HealthCare. Atlanta, GA

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Effect of dangerously high pollution levels in Chiang Mai province

Present position: Nursing Student, LA Pierce College, Los Angeles, CA

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Effect of dangerously high pollution levels in Chiang Mai province

Present position: Environmental Planner, Caltrans, State Department of Transportation, Sacramento, CA

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Effect of dangerously high pollution levels in Chiang Mai province

Present position: Manager New Ventures Bridge Innovation, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: S. Bonilla, C. Carr, M. Cole, and K. Clarke. The Influence of Erythropoietin Treatment and Insulin Deficiency on Rodent Heart Failure. California State University, Dominguez Hills Student Research Day, Carson, California.

Present position: Lab Technician. EMAX Laboratories, Inc., Torrance, CA

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: The effects of proteasome inhibition on the levels of α-tubulin and S-crystallin in light adapted octopus retinas." Presented at California State University, Dominguez Hills Student Research Day 2007 Poster Session.

Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) 2007 National Conference in Kansas City, MO (October 11 - 14, 2007)

Planning to attend and present at the American Chemical Society 236th National Meeting & Exposition. August 17-21, 2008, Philadelphia, PA USA

Present position: Researcher, University of California Davis, CA

Adjunct Professor and Principal Investigator, Royal University of Agriculture, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: LeGrand, Karen, Samir W. Hamaia, Dominique Bihan, Nicolas Raynal and Richard W. Farndale. "A Single High-Affinity Binding Site for Fibronectin in a Fibrillar Collagen, Identified using Synthetic Triple-Helical Peptides." Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, Austin, TX, Nov. 2007.

Bihan, Dominique, Samir W. Hamaia, Karen LeGrand, Nicolas Raynal and Richard W. Farndale. "A Single High-Affinity Binding Site for Fibronectin in a Fibrillar Collagen, Identified using Synthetic Triple-Helical Peptides". In preparation for submission to Journal of Biochemistry

Present position: Scientist. Arisan Therapeutics, Carlsbad, CA

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Tran, T., Trigueros, S., Colloms, S., Sherratt, D., Tolmasky, M. Stability of pJHCMW1: characteristics and roles of the mwr Xer site-specific recombination site and the replicative transposon Tn1331. 2010. International Plasmid Biology Conference. Bariloche, Argentina.

T. Tran, D. Sherratt, and M.E. Tolmasky. Characterization of fpr, a Xer recombination site present in the Salmonella plasmid pFPTB1. Annual Meeting of the Southern California branch of the American Society for Microbiology. San Diego, CA.
This presentation was awarded First Prize at the Student Colloquium of the meeting and won the BioMerieux award

L. Lee, T. Tran, R. Reyes-Lamothe, and D. Sherratt, and M.E. Tolmasky. Construction of plasmid derivatives for subcellular localization studies. 2009. 21st  Annual Symposium. CSUPERB. Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Reyes-Lamothe, R., Tran, T., Li, A., Lee, L., Sherratt, D.J., Tolmasky, M.E. Segregation of the plasmid pJHCMW1 in Escherichia coli occurs through free diffusion restricted by the nucleoid. 2011. 111th General Meeting of ASM, New Orleans, LA, USA.

Reyes-Lamothe, R., Lee, L., Tran, T., Sherratt, D.J., and Tolmasky, M.E. Tracking replication of a high-copy plasmid within Escherichia coli. 2011. 111th General Meeting of the ASM, New Orleans, LA, USA.

Meas, D., Reyes-Lamothe, R., Tran, T., Sherratt, D., and Tolmasky, M. Dynamics of the multiresistance pJHCMW1 plasmid. 2012. 24th CSUPERB Annual Symposium, Santa Clara, CA, USA.

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

A. Soler Bistué, D. Birshan, A. Tomaras, M. Dandekar, T. Tran, J. Newmark, N. Gupta, K. Hernandez, R. Sarno, A. Zorreguieta, L. Actis, and M. E. Tolmasky. Klebsiella pneumoniae multiresistance plasmid pMET1: similarity with the Yersinia pestis plasmid pCRY and integrative conjugative elements. PloS One 2008 e1800 PMID: 18350140

T. Tran, D. J. Sherratt, and M. E. Tolmasky. fpr, a deficient Xer recombination site from a Salmonella plasmid fails to confer stability by dimer resolution: comparative studies with the pJHCMW1 mwr site. Journal of Bacteriology 2010 192 883-887 PMID: 19966005

Present position: Research Fellow – Lead, 3D Bioprinting and Tissue Regeneration Technologies, Johnson & Johnson, Irvine, CA

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Carbon Monoxide in Medicine: Manganese Metal Carbonyl Complexes as CO-Releasing Molecules. California State University Los Angeles Biomedical Sciences Seminar Series. January 18 2008

O.H. Rogers, B.E. Moulton, A.K. Duhme-Klair, I.J. Fairlamb. Manganese Metal Carbonyl Complexes as CO-Releasing Molecules. Presented at the California State University Los Angeles MBRS Poster Session. 2007.