Campus Address:
913 Wardall Hall
918 W. Illinois St.
Urbana, IL 61801
Jonathan Liu
Permanent Address:
2421 Brockton Cir.
Naperville, IL 60565
jwliu2@illinois.edu
312-434-5176
Education
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bachelor of Science in Molecular and Cellular Biology
Expected Graduation Date: May 2016
GPA: 3.23/4.00
Awards
National Merit Commended Award
Mini Medical School for High School Students Teaching Assistant Recognition
May 2011
February 2012
Teaching Experience
Naperville, IL
Edward Hospital
Teaching Assistant at Dr. Ira Rubin’s Mini Medical School for High
January 2012-February 2012
School Students
 Taught activities such as organ dissections, taking vital signs, suturing, intubation, etc. to a group of four
high school students
 Assisted Dr. Rubin in teaching students how to take blood pressure and give injections for students
interested in learning about medicine and surgery
Teaching Assistant for Dr. Ira Rubin’s Summer Mini Medical School
June 2012 & June 2013
Experience for High School Students
 Managed suturing station with fellow TA teaching around 70 students who rotated through under timed
circumstance
 Explained mouth and throat examination to approximately 75 to 80 students
 Helped set up and take down activity stations and change the layout of the room to adapt to changing
amounts of tables and chairs available
Skills
Lab Skills:
 Gel electrophoresis, micropipetting, bacterial plating, e. coli transformation, SDS-PAGE, Western Blot
 Extractions, recrystallizations, distillations, TLC plate, titrations, using spectrophotometers etc.
 Dissections of hearts, eyes, brains, kidney, fetal pig, frog
Foreign Languages:
Neuqua Valley High School
 Fluent speaking ability in Mandarin Chinese
College of DuPage
 Working knowledge of Spanish
Leadership/Activities
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
Administration Team Member
 Called donors for Workday fundraising, arranged for number of workers donors requested
 Adjusted number of workers to different donors to accommodate for needs of donors
Urbana, IL
April 2012
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City of Urbana U-Cycle Program
Champaign, IL
Survey-taker
October 2012
 Asked local residents questions such as how they heard about U-Cycle Countywide
Residential Electronics Collection, how much they recycled, and what city they lived in
as they drove through recycling event.
 Kept track of how many residents came from which city on a clipboard
ConvoPartners
Urbana, IL
Conversation Partner
September-December 2013
 Met with international student once a week for 12 weeks, having
conversations with him in English, answered questions about American culture.
 Interacted with him, getting to know his background and how he was doing on a weekly basis.
Sigma-Aldrich Job Shadow
Job Shadower
 Shadowed senior microbiologist for entire day observing various projects being
worked on, including testing of staphylococcus bacteria in fermentation tanks.
 Observed fellow laboratory scientists purifying and lyophilizing protein products.
 Toured facility and industrial-scale protein product production machinery.
St. Louis, MO
January 2014
Carle Foundation Hospital CVICU (cardiovascular ICU)
Urbana, IL
Volunteer
January-May 2014
 Liaison between visitors and nurses, assisted nurses answering internal and external
phone calls.
 Kept nurse's station organized, restocked supply closets, disinfected heart monitor cables.
Chicago, IL
UIC Multidisciplinary Oral Science Training (MOST) Program
Intern
June-August 2014
 12 week summer multidisciplinary research program run by UIC College of Dentistry
designed to give undergraduates early exposure to biomedical research.
 Assisted the Unterman lab in conducting research on FOX01 gene knockout mice and metabolic
relations to diabetes, analyzed gene array data for use in research paper.
 Ran genotyping analysis experiments, trained and operated LC/MS machine, scanned slides
using Aperio ScanScope slide scanner.
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