Michelle Rahardja

Michelle Rahardja has had a varied work experience since 2013. Michelle began their career as a Shift Leader at Dunkin in 2013, followed by a role as a Scanner and Grader at Measured Progress in 2016. In the same year, they also worked as an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant at the University of New Hampshire and as an Undergraduate Research Assistant at the UNH Glycomics Center. In 2017, they took on the role of QC Analyst at Lonza, where they led daily meetings, executed routine and complex QC assays, and reviewed QC assays and data for compliance. In 2018, they worked as a Research Associate at QIAGEN, where they strategized effectively, executed complex laboratory experiments, and performed primary analysis of NGS data. Finally, in 2019, they joined seqWell as an Application Scientist and Research and Development Scientist, where they independently and collaboratively designed, planned, and performed scientific experiments to deliver a prototype for unique dual index (UDI) library preparation for next generation sequencing. Michelle also screened, selected, and verified a new set of indexes for an innovative product with a novel approach for an auto-normalizing UDI library preparation and developed a faster and cheaper method for screening new UDIs in a transposase tagging format, which saved about $36K in screening methods.

Michelle Rahardja obtained their Master's Degree in Pharmacology from The Ohio State University, their Bachelor's Degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of New Hampshire, and their Associate of Science - AS in Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies from Great Bay Community College. Additionally, they obtained a ServSafe Product Safety certification from the ServSafe Food Protection Manager Instructor in August 2014.