Katie Lamar

Experience

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  UC Berkeley Residential Life Academic Program

  Aug 2018 - Dec 2021

  Mathematics and Physics Tutor

  The UC Berkeley Residential Life Academic Program provides residential students with positive peer interaction through tutoring and academic advising. As a mathematics tutor with Res-Life Academic Program, I provide academic support for all undergraduate mathematics courses offered at UC Berkeley. I also provide support for lower division physics courses and upper division probability courses.

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  Undergraduate Lab @ Berkeley

  Aug 2019 - May 2021

  I was an Undergraduate Lab At Berkeley (ULAB) Biophysics Research Lead during the 2019-2020 school year. My team investigated several different methods to lower exposure to nanoparticle toxicity when utilizing nanoparticles as a drug delivery method for cancer treatment. In particular, we focused on utilizing self-assembling DNA nanostructures that had nanoparticles embedded within them. We proposed a delivery method that would allow the nanoparticles to be called back after the medication had been delivered to the targeted cells which would reduce the harmful effects of toxicity on the body caused by the prolonged exposure to nanoparticles. Show less

  • Physics and Astronomy Executive Laboratory Manager

    Jun 2020 - May 2021

  • Biophysics Team Research Lead

    Aug 2019 - Jun 2020
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  UC Berkeley Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program

  Jan 2020 - Jul 2020

  Undergraduate Research Apprentice

  I'm working with Dr. Waqas Khalid and his team on designing and modeling a COVID-19 testing device at Lawrence Lab through a URAP apprenticeship. The research focuses on creating and modeling a miniaturized assay device (MAD) which included a micro fluidic assembly module and sensor chip with attached carbon nanotubes that have been functionalized with ssRNA. MAD also contains electronics to obtain data from the sensors. When the nanotubes come in contact with a sample containing COVID-19 RNA, the complementary RNA on the carbon nanotubes hybridizes with the COVID-19 RNA resulting in a change in current that is picked up by the circuitry. The device could potentially be used for at home COVID-19 testing that would provide accurate results within a few minutes. Show less

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  National Science Foundation (NSF)

  May 2021 - Aug 2021

  SUPERB Research Fellow

  Summer Undergraduate Program in Engineering at Berkeley (SUPERB) Research Fellowship is a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates. My research apprenticeship is supervised by UC Berkeley Professor, Michael Lustig and my research project will focus on developing a method for correcting motion-related artifacts in real-time magnetic resonance imaging.

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  University of California, Berkeley

  Aug 2021 - May 2022

  Math 53: Multivariable Calculus UGSIs hold weekly discussion sections and office hours for students enrolled in Math 53 as well as prepare/create and grade course assignments and exams. As an EECS 16A Designing Information Devices and Systems 1 Lab Tutor, I provide academic support on lab assignments to enrolled students and I also help with grading.

  • Math 53 Undergraduate Student Instructor

    Jan 2022 - May 2022

  • EECS 16A Academic Student Employee (Lab Tutor)

    Aug 2021 - Dec 2021
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  SRC Research Scholars Program

  May 2022 - Aug 2022

  Research Scholar
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  Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research

  Aug 2022 - Aug 2023

  Graduate Student Researcher

  Member of Professor Michael Lustig's Magnetic Resonance Imaging Lab

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  University of California, Berkeley

  Aug 2022 - May 2023

  • Math 1A Single Variable Calculus Graduate Student Instructor

    Jan 2023 - May 2023

  • BioEng C165 Biomedical Signals & Systems Graduate Student Instructor

    Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
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  UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering

  Aug 2023 - now

  Graduate Student Researcher

  I'm a 2nd year Bioengineering Doctoral Student at UC San Diego focused on improving brainstem Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) under the guidance of Dr. Thomas Liu and Dr. Albert Hsiao. My work takes both an acquisition-based as well as an AI-centric, correction-based approach to minimizing off resonance and motion related artifacts that significantly hinder the accuracy of brainstem functional imaging.

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  UC San Diego

  Sept 2023 - Dec 2023

  Graduate Teaching Assistant

  Teaching Assistant for BENG 135 Biomedical Signals and Systems in the Bioengineering Department at UC San Diego.

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  UC San Diego

  Sept 2024 - now

  Graduate Teaching Assistant

  Teaching Assistant for BENG 280A Principles of Biomedical Imaging in the Bioengineering Department at UC San Diego.