Samantha Ancona Esselmann’s Skills

Multimedia Production

  • Software
    • Hindenburg Journalist
    • Audacity
    • Adobe Premiere Pro
    • Adobe Illustrator
  • Other
    • Script-writing
    • Comprehensive understanding of copyright and fair use laws
    • Comfort with the use of handheld recording devices
    • Understanding of sound theory
    • Soft interviewing skills
  • Social Media
    • Built the social media following for the BRCA Foundation (@brcafndn)
    • I curate social media platforms for the Science Policy Group at UCSF (@SPGatUCSF) and for Carry the One Radio (@ctoradio)
    • Managed web-hosting for carrytheoneradio.org

 

Science

  • Molecular Biology
    • PCR for sub-cloning and genotyping purposes
    • ddPCR for copy number variation assays
    • InFusion cloning
    • CRISPR and shRNA for genetic functional analysis
  • Biochemistry
    • Western Blot
    • IP and Co-IP
    • Immunohistochemistry
  • Electrophysiology
    • Patch clamping (Voltage/ Current) in organotypic cultures of rodent hippocampi
  • Cell culture
    • Rodent primary neuronal cultures
    • Rodent organotypic neuronal cultures
    • human iPSCs and neurospheres