1. Eleanor Gallo-Hendrikx email: gallohendrikx@gmail.com
Research Experience and Skills:
 Nucleic Acid Work
 Extractions
 PCR
 Southern blotting
 Northern blotting
 Subcloning
 Protein Work
 Extractions
 Western blotting
 Immunoprecipitation
 Histology
 Perfusion
 Paraffin embedding & sectioning
 Hematoxylin &Eosin staining, Carmine Red staining
 Immunocytochemistry
 Immunohistochemistry
 Antigen retrieval
 TUNEL assay
 Culture Work
 Aseptic technique
 Derivation of glial cell and tumor cell cultures and cell
 Transfections
 Treatment of cell cultures with drugs, growth factors then collection and analysis of lysates
 Flow cytometry
 Mouse Work
 Diagnostic analyses for genotyping
 Sterile technique for working with immunodeficient mice (scid, beige, & scid beige) in a barrier
facility
 Set up an experimental protocol for testing therapeutics in an orthotopic mouse model of
breast cancer
 Tumor cell injections into the left ventricle & orthotopically
 Blood and tissue collection
 Gross post mortem examinations
 Dissections
 Surgeries (vasectomies, embryo transfers)
 Froze embryos
 Perfusions
 Dog Work
 Pre-clinical cognitive tested of dogs
 Trained dogs to do cognitive testing
 Subcutaneous injections
 Trained other research technicians to cognitively test and give subcutaneous injections to
dogs

2. Eleanor Gallo-Hendrikx email: gallohendrikx@gmail.com
 Managed a pre-clinical cognitive therapeutic compound in a dog trial
 Computer Skills
 MS Word, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint
 Internet web browsers (including Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome)
 Some experience with MS Acess
 Data Collection and Analysis
 Maintained mouse databases
 Statistical analyses (including using Prism)
 Graphing data
 Writing Skills
 Wrote experimental protocols
 Wrote manuscripts, experimental sections for research grants
 Wrote Animal Use Protocols
 Proofread manuscripts and grants
 Wrote Standard Operating Procedures
 Proofread and technical edited knitting patterns
 People Skills
 Trained graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and technicians in various
experimental techniques
 Supervised graduate students and technicians
 Oversaw undergraduate and graduate laboratory classes
Previous Positions:
See cover letter for explanation of employment gap.
2014: Contract Technical Editor
July-December 2010, January-December 2009: Research Associate/Technician, Dept of Physics &
Astronomy, University of Waterloo
February 2007-February 2008: Research Technician, Fergus Facility, Cancog Technologies
June-August 1983: Marketing intern, Philips Roxane, Inc., St. Joseph, MO
Post-doctoral Research:
January 2001-November 2005: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Research in
Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto
June 1997-August 2000: Post-Doctoral Fellow and Laboratory Safety Officer, Section of Biomolecular
Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine

3. Eleanor Gallo-Hendrikx email: gallohendrikx@gmail.com
Education:
Ph.D., Molecular Biology & Genetics, February 1997
University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
Thesis - A New Mouse Model for Studying Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer
M.Sc., Zoology, May 1989
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Thesis - Development of Interdigital Tissue as Revealed by Conditions that Alter its Fate
B.Sc., Biology, May 1985
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
Undergraduate Research - Studied the effects of a teratogen on the development of hydra using
transmission electron microscopy
Publications:
H.T.J. Mount, J.-C. Martel, P. Fluit, Y. Wu, E. Gallo-Hendrikx, C. Cosi C. M. Marien. (2004).
Progressive sensorimotor impairment is not associated with reduced dopamine and high energy
phosphate donors in a model of ataxia-telangiectasia. J. Neurochem. 88(6):1449-1454.
E. Gallo-Hendrikx, S.A. Murray, B. Vonderhaar, and Z.-X.J. Xiao. (2001). Vanadate inhibits
mammary gland development in whole organ culture. Developmental Dynamics. 222: 354-367.
E. Gallo-Hendrikx, D. Percy, J. Copps, B. McKeown, M. Quinton, I.McMillan, B.A. Croy, and A.G.
Wildeman. (1999). Evaluation of three lines of immunodeficient mice for the study of spontaneous
metastatic tumors. APMIS. 107: 245-256.
E. Gallo-Hendrikx, J. Copps, D. Percy, B.A. Croy, and A.G. Wildeman. (1994). Enhancement of
pancreatic tumor metastasis in transgenic immunodeficient mice. Oncogene. 9: 2983-2990.
E. Gallo-Hendrikx, J. Copps, B.A. Croy, D. Percy, and A.G. Wildeman. (1993). Use of transgenic
mice to study the effects of the scid and beige mutations on tumorigenesis and metastasis. Lab. An.
Sci. 43:163.
Conference Presentations:
Oral:
Neuroscience 2002. Society for Neuroscience. Orlando FL
International Meeting on Atm in Ataxia Telangiectasia. Boston, MA, 2002
Neuroscience 2001. Society for Neuroscience. San Diego, CA
SCID Mouse Workshop. University of Guelph, Guelph, Ont., 1993
The SCID Mouse in Biomedical and Agricultural Research. University of Guelph, Guelph, Ont., 1992
Poster:
The Mouse in Mammary Carcinogenesis Conference, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, Oct.
1999

4. Eleanor Gallo-Hendrikx email: gallohendrikx@gmail.com
Mammary Gland Biology, A Gordon Research Conference, 1998
Genetics Society of Canada Annual Meeting, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ont., 1995. (Short-listed
in the graduate student poster competition)
Great Lakes Mammalian Development Meeting, Annual meeting, Toronto, Ont., 1994
Awards:
Jackson Laboratory Travel Award for the Mouse in Mammary Gland Biology & Neoplasia Workshop
and Conference, 1999
Short listed in the graduate student poster competition at the Genetics Society of Canada Annual
Meeting, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, 1995
University of Guelph Graduate Fellowship, 1991
Second place, Biannual Introductory Genetics Teaching Award, Department of Molecular Biology &
Genetics, 1991
University of Guelph Graduate Scholarship, 1990
Citizenship:
Dual American & Canadian