TzuWei Peng

Experience

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  Orange County Convention Center

  Nov 2017 - Jul 2018

  Lighting/Sound Tech

  Taking care of all the audiovisual systems in the West and North/South building of OCCC. Responsible for system operation, troubleshooting, communicate with clients and maintenance.

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  University of Florida

  Oct 2019 - Aug 2020

  Volunteer Research Assistant

  > Interned at UF/IFAS Indian River Research and Education Center with Dr. Rhaunito Ferrarezi at Citrus Horticulture Lab.> Research Project: Smart System for Automated Irrigation using Internet-of-Things Resources; the project was presented at the American Society for Horticultural Science 2020 conference.> Responsible for calculating volumetric water content and dielectric values from soil moisture sensors calibration, programming the IoT in C/C+/Python computer language, system assembly, conduct experiments, data collecting, and analyzing. Show less

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  Santa Fe College

  Aug 2021 - Sept 2022

  Biology Lab Aids

  Biology lab assistant under the department of Natura Science. Responsible for preparing reagents, specimens, and materials for the experiments, and maintaining the laboratories for General Biology, Core Biology I & II, Zoology, and Botany courses. Following SOP, assisting with inventory management and lab supplies, and assisting professors with their needs.

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  FfAME - Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution

  Sept 2022 - now

  Laboratory Technician

  Working with Dr. Elisa Biondi with the follow projects: *The in-vitro evolution and characterization of catalytic molecules from standard and expanded nucleic acid libraries carrying modified nucleotides from an Artificially Expanded Genetic Information System (AEGIS), to understand sequence dynamics and information requirements during the prebiotic evolution of informational macromolecules. *The study of the interaction between mineral/geological surfaces and RNA molecules in prebiotic environments, including the prebiotic synthesis of RNA precursors and the chiral selection of RNA enantiomers. *The in-vitro evolution and characterization of aptamers and ribozymes from nucleic acid libraries containing modified and expanded genetic alphabets for the development of molecular tools for biomedical and biotechnological applications. *Testing of RNA and DNA polymerases, kinases, and other enzymes evolved/modified to accept non-natural nucleotides from the AEGIS pool. Show less