Nate Burkard

Experience

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  K & A Greenhouse

  May 2016 - Aug 2021

  Worker

  A summer job where I work on projects of all sizes big or small. My day consists of creating displays, moving pots, plants, and soil, answering phones and emails, filling out online orders, checking out customers, growing plants, and delivering orders using a box truck. The work at the greenhouse varies each day.

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  Self-employed

  May 2017 - Aug 2019

  Landscaper

  I was hired by people who visited the greenhouse to do landscaping work including moving, planting, and watering plants, trees, and shrubs, setting up fountains and pottery, weeding, and placing mulch and soil.

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  Target

  Jul 2018 - Dec 2019

  Cashier

  Checking out customers with all of their purchases, as well as restocking shelves.

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  Morgridge Institute for Research

  Jun 2020 - Jun 2023

  Undergraduate Research Assistant

  Investigator: Dr. Melissa Skala (PhD) | Medical Engineering | Morgridge Institute for ResearchPostdoctoral Fellow: Dr. Alexa Heaton (PhD) | Medical Engineering | Morgridge Institute for ResearchWorking closely with Dr. Heaton, we are involved in developing in vivo murine immunotherapy cancer treatments and leveraging optical metabolic imaging to study immune and tumor cell metabolism live within these tumors. My specific role within the lab is to perform qualitative and quantitative metabolic data analysis on immune and tumor cells within these tumors during therapy, as well as utilizing in vivo optical metabolic imaging in preclinical models to probe immune cell response, function, and metabolism. Specifically, I create composite fluorescence intensity images, redox ratio images, and cell masks in addition to quantifying single cell fluorescence lifetime data that informs on cellular metabolism. Show less

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  The National Institutes of Health

  Jun 2023 - now

  Postbaccalaureate Fellow