Jami Dwyer
Portland, Oregon
jamidwyer [AT] gmail [DOT] com

Objective
Employment in web development.

Employment
Research Assistant. Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, 9/02 to 6/07, $32,000 per year.
Experience included:
-> Processing, mining, and confirming large data sets from DNA sequencing or RNA microarray analysis, primarily using Microsoft Excel.
-> Mapping large data sets to visual representations of human, mouse, and rat genomes using UCSC's Blat and NCBI's Blast.
-> Culturing embryonic and neural stem cells.
-> Gene cloning.
-> DNA purification and sequencing.
-> Quantifying DNA and RNA using real-time PCR. 

Research Assistant. Portland VA Research Foundation, Portland, OR, 4/00 to 9/02, $28,000 per year.
Experience included:
-> Processing and mining large data sets from RNA microarray analysis, primarily using Microsoft Excel.
-> Quantifying protein levels using ELISA.
-> Quantifying RNA levels using RNase protection assay.

Technical Support. Stream International, Beaverton, OR, 10/99 to 4/00, $24,000 per year.
Experience included:
-> Helping customers install and troubleshoot US West (now Qwest) DSL connections remotely.

Bench Chemist. Cascade Analytical, (509) 662-1888, Wenatchee, WA, summers, 6/98 to 10/99, $24,000 per year.
Experience included:
-> Quantifying such compounds as nitrate, phosphate, and sulfate using techniques such as gas chromatography, spectrophotometry, and pH.

Technical support/web programmer.  Carleton College, Northfield, MN, 11/97 to 6/99, $21,000 per year.
Experience included:
-> Installing hardware and software on campus computers.
-> Writing department web pages.

Web Programmer. Televar Northwest, Wenatchee, WA, summer 6/97 to 8/97, $21,000 per year.
Experience included:
-> Using Lycos and Altavista to develop Yahoo!-like web directory of business web pages in Northwest cities using HTML, CGI, and Perl.

Education
Self-teaching, PHP, MySQL, Unix, XML, Javascript, Perl. Portland, OR, 2008. 
http://jamidwye.freehostia.com

B.S., Chemistry. Carleton College, Northfield, MN, 1999.

Publications
Impey S, McCorkle SR, Cha-Molstad H, Dwyer JM, Yochum GS, Boss JM, McWeeney S, Dunn JJ, Mandel G, Goodman RH. Defining the CREB regulon: a genome-wide analysis of transcription factor regulatory regions. Cell. 2004 Dec 29;119(7):1041-54.

Matejuk A, Bakke AC, Hopke C, Dwyer J, Vandenbark AA, Offner H. Estrogen treatment induces a novel population of regulatory cells, which suppresses experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. J Neurosci Res. 2004 Jul 1;77(1):119-26.

Matejuk A, Hopke C, Dwyer J, Subramanian S, Jones RE, Bourdette DN, Vandenbark AA, Offner H.  CNS gene expression pattern associated with spontaneous experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis.J Neurosci Res. 2003 Sep 1;73(5):667-78. 

Matejuk A, Dwyer J, Hopke C, Vandenbark AA, Offner H.  17Beta-estradiol treatment profoundly down-regulates gene expression in spinal cord tissue in mice protected from experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis.Arch Immunol Ther Exp (Warsz). 2003;51(3):185-93. 

Ito A, Matejuk A, Hopke C, Drought H, Dwyer J, Zamora A, Subramanian S,
Vandenbark AA, Offner H.  Transfer of severe experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis by IL-12- and IL-18-potentiated T cells is estrogen sensitive.
J Immunol. 2003 May 1;170(9):4802-9. 

Matejuk A, Buenafe AC, Dwyer J, Ito A, Silverman M, Zamora A, Subramanian S,
Vandenbark AA, Offner H.  Endogenous CD4+BV8S2- T cells from TG BV8S2+ donors confer complete protection against spontaneous experimental encephalomyelitis (Sp-EAE) in TCR transgenic, RAG-/- mice. J Neurosci Res. 2003 Jan 1;71(1):89-103. 

Liu HY, Buenafe AC, Matejuk A, Ito A, Zamora A, Dwyer J, Vandenbark AA,
Offner H.  Estrogen inhibition of EAE involves effects on dendritic cell function.
J Neurosci Res. 2002 Oct 15;70(2):238-48. 

Matejuk A, Dwyer J, Ito A, Bruender Z, Vandenbark AA, Offner H.  Effects of cytokine deficiency on chemokine expression in CNS of mice with EAE. J Neurosci Res. 2002 Mar 1;67(5):680-8. 

Ito A, Buenafe AC, Matejuk A, Zamora A, Silverman M, Dwyer J, Vandenbark AA,  Offner H.  Estrogen inhibits systemic T cell expression of TNF-alpha and recruitment of TNF-alpha(+) T cells and macrophages into the CNS of mice developing experimental encephalomyelitis. Clin Immunol. 2002 Mar;102(3):275-82. 

Matejuk A, Dwyer J, Zamora A, Vandenbark AA, Offner H.  Evaluation of the effects of 17beta-estradiol (17beta-e2) on gene expression in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis using DNA microarray. Endocrinology. 2002 Jan;143(1):313-9.