Emilie R. C.

Williamson
Address and telephone contact information available upon email request. ewilliamson1226@gmail.com

Education__________________________________________________________
08/2009 05/2013 University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Anticipated date of graduation: May 2013 Current GPA: 4.0/4.0 Major: Physiology Minor: Dance Research in the Davisson Lab (10 hrs/week). (Dr. Robin Davisson) Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University Helped maintain mouse colony Entered and summarized data under direction of a graduate student Research in the Davisson Lab (20 hrs/week). (Dr. Robin Davisson) Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University Paraffin sectioning of mouse implantation sites Set up protocol, pregnancies and water-bottles for Melatonin Study o Weighed pregnant mice and water bottles daily o Weighed embryos/placentas at specific time points Assisted in ultrasonographic phenotyping of mouse embryos Research in the Davisson Lab (20 hrs/week). (Dr. Robin Davisson) Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University Western blotting of mouse placental samples Performed all of the steps in Western Blotting, from tissue harvest to quantitating data Helped to maintain mouse colony Assisted in ultrasonographic phenotyping of mouse embryos Research & shadowing: McCray Lab (June 4-July 28). (Dr. Paul B McCray Jr.) University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa Summer Undergraduate MSTP Research program Identified viruses, parainfluenza virus 5 and sendai virus, that would infect pig airway epithelial cells Cell culture plaque assay for quantification of viral particles in expanded sample. Maintained cell culture lines

Research Experience _________________________________________________

Summer 2008-2009

Summer/Winter 2010

Summer/Winter 2011

Summer 2012

Performed viscosity measurements using m-VROC for various samples of mucus containing PLUNC (palate, lung and nasal epithelial clone) protein and other surfactants to characterize PLUNCs effect on mucus o Carried out pellicle assay for surfactant effect on bacterial biofilm formation

Honors and Achievements _____________________________________________

2009-2012 2009-2013 2011 2011 2012 2012 Deans List with Distinction (All semesters) Arizona Excellence Award (Tuition scholarship for academic merit) Inducted into Alpha Epsilon Delta Organic Chemistry Preceptor Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa Inducted into Mortar Board National Senior Honorary

Extra Curricular Activities ______________________________________________

2009-2011 2009-2012 2010-2011 2010-2012 2011-2012 2011-2012 2011-2012 Teaching assistant, Radio City Rockette Summer Intensive Disabilities Resource Center Note Taker (50 hrs/semester) Volunteer, Giving Tree in Tucson AZ (15 hrs/semester) Alpha Epsilon Delta national pre-health honorary Red Cross Internship (4 hrs/week) CHIMES Junior Honorary Shadowing: Rheumatology, Cardiology, Orthopedic surgery, Facial surgery, Emergency Room (60+ hours)

Publications and Presentations_________________________________________

Sones JL, Zhou Y, Woods AK, Williamson ERC, Green E, Isroff C, Davisson RL. "Asynchronous peri-implantation events characterize a mouse model of preeclampsia, BPH/5". Precedings of Cornell University Reproductive and Developmental Genomics Conference, June 2012. Sones JL, Zhou Y, Woods AK, Williamson ERC, Green E, Isroff C, Davisson RL. "Asynchronous peri-implantation events characterize a mouse model of preeclampsia, BPH/5". Precedings of Conference on Fetal Programming and Environmental Exposures; Implications for Prenatal Care and Pre-term Birth, The New York Academy of Sciences, June 2012. Williamson ERC, Bartlett JA, McCray PB. "A paramyxovirus infection model to investigate anti-viral defenses in CF pigs". Presentation at the University of Iowa Summer Undergraduate Research Conference, July 2012.