curriculum vitae

Education

Bachelor of Arts May 2018
Department of Biology–Coe College

Doctor of Philosophy August 2024
Department of Pathology–Case Western Reserve University
Dissertation Title: O-GlcNAcylation and Response Prediction in Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Data-Driven Approach
Mentors: Dr. David Wald and Dr. Tae Hyun Hwang

Research Experience

Higher Education Research Experience Fellow August 2017-December 2017
Molecular and Cellular Imaging Group–Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN

Postdoctoral Scholar August 2024-current
Infectious Diseases–Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

Awards

Minority Scholar in Cancer Research Awardee AACR Annual Meeting 2022

Publications

For a list of publications see Publications

  • Single Cell and Bulk RNA Expression Analyses Identifies Enhanced Hexosamine Biosynthetic Pathway and O-GlcNAcylation in Acute Myeloid Leukemia blasts and stem cells–Frontiers in Immunology 2024
    Robert Schauner, Jordan Cress, Changjin Hong, David Wald, and Parameswaran Ramakrishnan
  • NK cells from COVID-19 positive patients exhibit enhanced cytotoxic activity upon NKG2A and KIR2DL1 blockade–Frontiers in Immunology 2023
    Grace Lee, Robert Schauner, Juanita Burke, Jade Borocz, Smitha Vasana, Lukasz Sobieraj, Maria Giraudo, Zachary Jackson, Qasim Ansari, Maria Navas, Hany Sakr, and David Wald
  • Sequential Single-Cell Transcriptional and Protein Marker Profiling Reveals TIGIT as a Marker of CD19 CAR-T Cell Dysfunction in Patients with Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma–Cancer Discovery 2022
    Zachary Jackson, Changjin Hong, Robert Schauner, Boro Dropulic, Paolo F. Caimi, Marcos de Lima, Maria Florencia Giraudo, Kalpana Gupta, Jane S. Reese, Tae Hyun Hwang, and David N. Wald
  • Single cell RNA sequencing of AML initiating cells reveals RNA-based evolution during disease progression–Leukemia 2021
    L. C. Stetson, Dheepa Balasubramanian, Susan Pereira Ribeiro, Tammy Stefan, Kalpana Gupta, Xuan Xu, Slim Fourati, Anne Roe, Zachary Jackson, Robert Schauner, Ashish Sharma, Banumathi Tamilselvan, Samuel Li, Marcos de Lima, Tae Hyun Hwang, Robert Balderas, Yogen Saunthararajah, Jaroslaw Maciejewski, Thomas LaFramboise, Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan, Rafick-Pierre Sekaly, and David N. Wald
  • Automated Manufacture of Autologous CD19 CAR-T Cells for Treatment of Non-hodgkin Lymphoma–Frontiers in Immunology 2020
    Zachary Jackson, Anne Roe, Ashish Arunkumar Sharma, Filipa Blasco Tavares Pereira Lopes, Aarthi Talla, Sarah Kleinsorge-Block, Kayla Zamborsky, Jennifer Schiavone, Shivaprasad Manjappa, Robert Schauner, Grace Lee, Ruifu Liu, Paolo F. Caimi, Ying Xiong, Winfried Krueger, Andrew Worden, Mike Kadan, Dina Schneider, Rimas Orentas, Boro Dropulic, Rafick-Pierre Sekaly, Marcos de Lima, David N. Wald, and Jane S. Reese

    • Presentations

    Transcriptional State Evolution in Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia 2020
    Biomedical Graduate Student Symposium

    Discovering Biomarkers for Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia using single-cell RNA sequencing 2021
    ISMB/ECCB Annual Meeting

    New platform for novel biomarker discovery using single-cell RNA sequencing on pediatric acute myeloid leukemia samples 2022
    AACR Annual Meeting

    Development of a Platform for Biomarker Discovery using scRNA sequencing on Pediatric AML Samples 2022
    St. Jude Children’s Hospital Future Fellows Research Conference, Memphis, TN

    Enhanced Hexosamine Biosynthetic Pathway and O-GlcNAcylation in Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Data-Driven Approach 2024
    Immunology Retreat, Case Western Reserve University

    Skills

    Computer Skills

    Languages: R, Python

    Linux, Mac, HPC

    Seurat, tidyverse

    git, SLURM

    Snakemake, scverse

    Affinity Creative Suite

    Analysis Skills

    Single-cell RNA seq

    • Feature Barcoding
    • Immune Repertoire

    RNA seq

    In silico flow cytometry

    FlowJo

    Laboratory Techniques

    High-parameter Flow Cytometry

    10x Genomics Library Preparation

    Primary Cell Culture

    DNA/RNA extraction

    BSL-3 and BSL-2+ practices

    Voulenteer/Non-profit work

    Director of Media and Public Relations 2020-2023
    Rise Up: Northeast Ohio, Cleveland, OH

    Scientific Officer 2020-current
    Rise Up: Northeast Ohio, Cleveland, OH

    Memberships

    American Association of Immunologists 2020-current

    American Association for Cancer Research 2022-current

    International Society for Computational Biology 2021-current