Christine Tin
Member of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
From Woodbridge, Va.
From Woodbridge, Va.
Undergraduate Researcher
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Christine Tin Aburto Awarded $8,500 Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship
Christine Tin Aburto, of Woodbridge, Virginia, has been awarded a Fellowship worth $8,500 by The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi-the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for a...
July, 18 2019 - Verified by The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
Christine Tin Inducted into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
Christine Tin of Woodbridge, Va., was recently initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. Tin ...
April, 24 2015 - Verified by The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
Peer Mentor
• Mentor Odyssey Fellowship Virginia Tech candidates on developing a summer experience anywhere in the world, fully funded by Virginia Tech University Honors (up to $10,000).
• Serve on the preliminary and final interview committee to select fellowship candidates.
• Discuss among University Honors faculty the methods to improve each year’s application, interview, and selection process
Fall 2014 - Fall 2015
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Epsilon Sigma Alpha
• Plan events to serve the local and surrounding communities as a part of an internationally recognized leadership and service fraternity.
• Participate in community events for educational outreach, such as in the Take Back the Night rally to end sexual violence.
• Raise funds to donate to the fraternity philanthropy, St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital.
• Led the pledge class service project and raised $330 to donate to the pledge class philanthropy, the Free Clinic of New River Valley.
Fall 2014
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Volunteer Tutor
• Facilitated, monitored, and challenged the discussion of students in an unconventionally structured classroom based on peer collaboration, personal investigation, and questioning.
• Assisted professor with general teaching duties.
Fall 2013
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Peer Advisor
• Exchanged cultural awareness and understanding of the university with an international student weekly by leading conversations for practicing English and assisting with familiarity about Blacksburg.
Fall 2013
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Volunteer
• Educated low-income preschool children in the Head Start program of Giles County for preparation to primary school.
• Designed an end-of-the-year experiment aimed towards stimulating children’s interests in the life sciences.
• Attended weekly Service-Learning meetings to strategize methods for better adult-child learning interactions and to develop personal growth as a volunteer.
Spring 2013
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The Latitude Zero: Ecuador Research Initiative Fellow at Institute of Microbiology, Universidad de San Francisco-Quito
Dr. Gabriel Trueba's laboratory
• Identify antibiotic-resistant plasmids in enteroinvasive E. coli isolated from stool samples of people in remote Ecuadorian communities.
• Characterize antibiotic-resistant genes of bacterial isolates.
• Research the affects of transportation and development on the movement of antibiotic-resistant genes
January 2015 - May 2015
NIH Trainee at National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
Dr. Kim Green's Laboratory, Caliciviruses Section
• Designed and developed a novel Luciferase Immunoprecipitation Systems (LIPS) assay for profiling antibody responses against norovirus
• Forged a collaboration with Virginia Tech to analyze virus-specific antibody responses of norovirus infection and reinfection in gnotobiotic pigs.
• Participated in and presented scientific articles at weekly journal club meetings to discuss current literature in the field of infectious diseases.
May 2014 - August 2014
Undergraduate Researcher at Dr. Lijuan Yuan's Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology
• Analyze the antibody responses induced by rice bran and probiotics in vaccinated gnotobiotic pigs.
• Contribute to animal model works of the first lab in the United States to utilize the human gut microbiota associated gnotobiotic pig model.
• Collaborate in the intellect, writing, and editing of manuscripts.
Publications:
Wen K., Tin C., Wang H., Yang X., Li G., et al. (2014) Probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG Enhanced Th1 Cellular Immunity but Did Not Affect Antibody Responses in a Human Gut Microbiota Transplanted Neonatal Gnotobiotic Pig Model. PLoS ONE 9(4): e94504. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0094504
Yang, X., Wen, K., Tin, C., Li, G., Wang, H., Kocher, J., et al. (2014). Dietary Rice Bran Protects against Rotavirus Diarrhea and Promotes Th1-Type Immune Responses to Human Rotavirus Vaccine in Gnotobiotic Pigs. Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, 21(10), 1396-1403.
September 2012 - Present
