Destinee Cooper

 

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EDUCATION
University of California, Davis, Bachelor of Science in Environmental Toxicology, June 2004.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
• Junior Specialist, Entomology Department, UC Davis, develop independent project and methodology of determining how arsenic exposure effects metabolism in human keratinocytes, 7/04 – present.
• Metabolomics Undergraduate Research Intern, Entomology Department, UC Davis, develop independent project and methodology of determining how arsenic exposure effects metabolism in human keratinocytes, 9/03 – 6/04.
• Tissue Culture Summer Intern, Cancer Research Center, UC San Francisco, assisted in growing cell lines derived from tumors of transgenic mice, 6/02 – 8/02.
• Cell Biology Undergraduate Research Intern, Molecular and Cellular Biology Section, UC Davis, assisted in determining if there were assistant proteins for MGM1 (a protein that functions on the outer membrane of mitochondria in yeast in fusion), 6/01 – 6/02.
• Viticulture and Enology Undergraduate Research Intern, Viticulture and Enology Department, UC Davis, assisted with experiment on stringency perception, 1/00 – 6/00.

AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS
• Northern California Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry research presenter, 5/04.
• UC LEADS research conference presenter, 3/02, 3/03, 2/04.
• Biography published in Healing Journeys: Teaching Medicine, Nurturing Hope, 2003.
• SACNAS (Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science) research conference attendee, 9/01 & 9/03.
• ABRCMS (Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students) presenter, 11/02.
• Undergraduate Research Conference (URC) at UC Davis presenter, 4/02.
• Henry W. Seale Scholarship, for students with financial need, 9/00 – 6/01.
• Henry A. Jastro Scholarship, for worthy students, 9/99 – 6/00.
• National Society of Collegiate Scholars nominee, 6/00.
• National Dean’s List, ’99-’00.
• Outstanding Youth Award, recognition by Modesto Mayor for over 1300 hours of community service during high school, 6/99.