Experience

• Oklahoma State University

  Research Associate

  Worked as a research associate while obtaining an MS and Ph.D. at Oklahoma State University. The Lab dealt predominantly with molecular reproductive functions during pregnancy using the Sus Scrofus as an Animal Model. The Lab's research trajectory centered around elucidating the fetal and maternal tissue interaction during embryonic development, mediated through the immune system. Additionally, the lab investigated aberrant Animal models that involved environmental endocrine disruption of the normal gestational process.

• Oklahoma City Community College

  Adjunct Professor of Biology and Microbiology

  I currently teach Anatomy and Physiology, Biology, and Microbiology.

• Yale University

  Postdoctoral Fellow

  As a Postdoc, my model involved first-trimester trophoblast cell cultures and transformed cell lines. I investigated signaling pathways involved in the expression and function of the innate immune Toll-like Receptors (TLR). Specifically, I attempted to determine what controls the transcriptional expression of TLR6 in the trophoblast and why TLR2 and its’ co-receptors (TLR1 and TLR6) differentially regulate trophoblastic apoptosis and inflammation in response to gram-positive bacterial components. Moreover, are regulatory microRNAs (miRNAs) involved in the TLR2 response in these cells? In order to determine the divergence of signaling as either inflammation or apoptosis, I created a stably transfected cell line that contained recombinant siRNA region to silence portions of the TLR2 signaling pathway. Using Silencing RNAs (SiRNA), I set forth to determine potential molecule/mechanism involved in the divergence from a placental apoptotic response to one of an attenuated inflammatory response in the presence of an infection

• Rose State College

  Adjunct Professor

  Morgan worked at Rose State College as a Adjunct Professor

• US Army, 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team

  Brigade Plans Chief

  Served as Brigade Chief of Plans for a 3500 personnel Infantry Brigade Combat Team (IBCT). Responsible for developing and publishing all administrative and tactical orders for operational direction both foreign and domestic.