Curriculum Vitae

 

Miriam Sander

 

685 Poplar Avenue

Boulder CO 80304

(303)-449-1394 phone

(303)-319-1412 mobile



Education:

1981-87

Duke University

Durham, NC

 

Department of Biochemistry

 

 

Ph.D., 1987

 

 

1980-81

University of North Carolina

Chapel Hill, NC

 

1974-77

Brandeis University

Waltham, MA

 

Department of Music

 

 

B.A., 1977

 

 

1972-73

New England Conservatory

Boston, MA

 

Scholastic Honors:

 

 

 

B.A., Summa Cum Laude

 

 

Phi Beta Kappa

 

 

Delta Phi Alpha

 

 

Louis D. Brandeis Scholar

 

 

 

Fellowships and Awards:

 

 

 

American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship

July 1987 - June 1990

 

 

 

NIH Predoctoral Training Award

 

 

Sept. 1981 - Aug. 1985

 

 

 


 

Employment:

 

 

 

Page One Editorial Services

January, 1998 to present

Owner/Editor

 

 

403 Carolina Circle

 

 

Durham, NC 27707

 

 

 

Tenure Track Investigator

September, 1990 - March, 1998

Laboratory of Molecular Genetics

NIEHS

 

 

Research Triangle Park, NC 27709

 

 

 

Postdoctoral Fellow

May 1987-July 1990

Department of Biology

 

 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

 

Cambridge, MA 02138

 

 

 

Translation/proofreading assistant

June 1977-August 1977

Bosch, Inc.

 

 

Stuttgart, Germany

 

 

 


 

Professional Writing/Editing Experience

 

Page One Editorial Services: Owner/Editor

 

As owner and editor for Page One Editorial Services I have accumulated experience in various types of professional writing tasks. These include:

 

  • Manuscript editing
  • Manuscript writing
  • Meeting summaries (attend meeting, prepare minutes and summary document)
  • Grant proposal writing
  • Graphic design and preparation for manuscripts and book chapters
  • Thesis editing
  • Novel editing

 

Scientific Research-Associated Professional Writing

 

  • Published 25 manuscripts in professional scientific journalssee bibliography
  • Published 24 meeting abstracts for presentation at scientific meetings
  • Prepared numerous written research proposals in justification of research funding and support
  • Novel editing

 

Professional Training

 

 

 

Duke University Technical Writers' Workshop

 

participant, July 1998

 

 

 

How to Become a Successful Editor, Duke University Continuing Education course

participant, January, 1998

 

 

 

Newsletters, Flyers and Brochures, Duke University Continuing Education course

participant, December 1997

 

 

 

Fiction Fundamentals Duke University Continuing Education course

participant, Fall 1994

 

 

 

Other Professional Activities

 

 

 

North Carolina Writers Network

 

 

member, Spring 1995 to present

 

 

 

Writer/editor, The Prism

 

 

November 1997 to present

 

 

 

Production Staff, The Prism

 

 

November, 1997 to present

 

 

 

Organizer and participant in literary critiquing group "the WG"

December 1994- September 1995

 

 

 

Organizer and participant in book discussion group

January 1996 to September 1997

 


 

Meetings and Seminars

 

Invited Seminar Presentations

 

Duke University Program in Genetics Seminar Series

Fall 1990

 

NCSU Biochemistry Department Seminar Series

Spring 1993

 

34th Drosophila Research Conference

Spring 1993

San Diego, CA

DNA Repair Workshop

 

Virginia Commonwealth University Medical College

Fall 1994

Microbiology Seminar Series

 

Wayne State University

Spring 1996

Detroit, MI

Biology Seminar Series

 

Mutagenesis Gordon Conference

Summer 1996

Plymouth, NH

 

 

Session Speaker: Transgenic Models Systems for DNA Repair

 

Meetings Organized

 

Co-chair

NIEHS Frontiers in Science Mini Symposium on DNA Repair

May 1995

 


 

Other interests/hobbies

 

  • tennis
  • running
  • music
  • modern literature
  • vegetarian cuisine