# Hi, I'm David 🥽💊 >  My husband, Paul; our mini aussie, Dodger; and I. <br> I have five years of experience as an early-career medical professional across both laboratory medicine and pharmacy. I am actively advancing my role as a **Medical Laboratory Technician** (ASCP) and **Certified Pharmacy Technician** (CPhT) to further distinguish myself in these high-impact fields. I'm a research hobbyist, aspiring science illustrator and lab body. > #### Practicing medicine is a big part of me. It's exciting to learn about the unseeable part of life: the shape, purpose, and how a cell's tools, called ==proteins==, work. This is the basic science of **Structural Biology** and it [has a rich history](https://youtu.be/bHyi7bIzlfo?si=lCEyFv8nG7XgsJX7). To locate future roles in the field I'm finding time to shadow a transmission electron microscope (TEM) in central Ohio to one day specialize in Single Particle CryoEM to snapshot the contents of cells and you can [see it explained in under a minute](https://youtu.be/vLo7oqfRa74?si=5SzTqsVFksqfHPrr). # Independent Writing I make sense of researcher data by representing ways to visualize an underpinning of everyday life that plays nicely with our eyes. [**CaMKII**](https://www.rcsb.org/structure/3SOA) is a star-shape protein that tunes the heart's pacemaking in our fight-or-flight response^[Schulman H, Anderson ME. Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II in heart failure. Drug Discovery Today: Disease Mechanisms. 2010 Jun 1;7(2):e117-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ddmec.2010.07.005] and works with learning and memory in our brains.^[Zalcman G, Federman N, Romano A. CaMKII isoforms in learning and memory: localization and function. Frontiers in molecular neuroscience. 2018 Dec 4;11:445. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnmol.2018.00445] <iframe src="https://3dproteinimaging.com/protein-imager/?projectId=cpwvYg6VmtptHkCoLWSm&isUserProject=1&gui=transparent" width="100%" height="400"></iframe> I use the web-based app [Protein Imager](https://3dproteinimaging.com/) developed by Gianluca Tomasello, Ilaria Armenia, and Gianluca Molla.^[Tomasello G, Armenia I, Molla G. The Protein Imager: a full-featured online molecular viewer interface with server-side HQ-rendering capabilities. Bioinformatics. 2020 May 1;36(9):2909-11. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa009] Special thanks to Gianluca Tomasello to share with me [iframe support](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/iframe). ## Review Paper I'm filling in my knowledge gaps by writing a single-author paper on [Protein Science](Protein%20Science.md). This self-study is designed to provide a robust academic foundation for my future graduate studies as a Technologist in Molecular Biology, or MB(ASCP). ## Free CPhT Study Aide I'm happy to share [what to study to obtain an Ohio CPhT license](PTCE.md) in 2025. This collection of study materials are from good friends that are registered and certified pharmacy techs. --- > ==**@lemasterdj**== > > [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3548-3303) [GitHub](https://github.com/lemasterdj) [Zotero](https://www.zotero.org/lemasterdj) [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/lemasterdj) [Instagram](https://instagram.com/lemasterdj) > > Email me, at **[email protected]** > Call and text, **(614) 604-2565**