Natalia Ivanova

Background

About Natalia Ivanova

BIO: I am fascinated by molecular biology tools contributing to our understanding of biodiversity and biocomplexity and their applications in everyday life. Professional highlights: Hands-on experience with full cycle of lab life: space design, outfitting, operation. Four years of industry experience at NatureMetrics North America and Precision Biomonitoring. Sixteen years dedicated to Barcode of Life project, at the Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph, creating high-throughput cost-saving solutions and laboratory automation workflows. Lab outfitting • Lab space design and organization • Choosing equipment, labware and reagents for molecular biology workflows • Scheduling equipment calibration/maintenance • Granular Inventory management (to the level of kit components): receiving, inventory counts • Safe disposal of unused chemicals and chemical waste Automation: • High-throughput DNA/RNA extraction protocols • Setup of indexed PCR plates for NGS • SPRI purification protocols • 96 to 384 consolidation, plate pooling • LIMS-driven cherry picking • Consolidation from tubes to plates • Integration of custom labware, hardware and alps Automation training: • Biomek FX/NX Advanced Methods Programming – December 5-6, 2012 • Biomek FX/NX Methods Programming – December 7, 2006 • Biomek FX Pipetting – November 7, 2006 • Selected for Biomek Power User Program – 2020 Molecular biology: • Custom reagents for DNA/RNA extraction • Sanger sequencing • NGS – Ion Torrent, Illumina, PacBio • PCR, qPCR, LAMP, LAMP-LFT, LFIA • Antibody conjugation protocols • Molecular cloning, plasmid DNA extraction • Primers, probes and gBlocks design Six Sigma Global Institute Certification: • Lean Six Sigma (black belt) • Project Management • Data Analytics WHMIS, Biosafety, Supervisor Health and Safety, First Aid, ISO 13485:2016 Google Scholar: & hl=en