Dendron’s experience is primarily a mix of laboratory, research, tutoring, teaching, and workshop facilitation roles. This reflects Dendron’s twin loves for both scientific exploration and helping others learn.

Dendron began working in labs in 2016. Since 2025, Dendron has been working in a knee cartilage tissue engineering and regenerative medicine lab at University of Oregon’s Knight Campus (Lindberg Lab) as a graduate student researcher.

In 2009, Dendron began speaking on panels, giving talks, facilitating workshops, and tutoring math and science. Now, Dendron facilitates workshops for Lavender Pi. These range from a hands-on workshop for participants to develop gender neutral language skills in English, to practical training designed for medical professionals and trainees who may encounter transgender, nonbinary, and gender diverse patients.

Read below for a selection of experience, examples of talks and workshops, and conference posters (with downloadable PDFs), or check out Dendron’s LinkedIn profile for detailed work experience information.

Selected Work Experience

Check out Dendron’s LinkedIn profile for detailed work experience information.

• Graduate Student Researcher, Lindberg Lab (University of Oregon Knight Campus, Eugene, Oregon, USA, September 2025 – Present)
• Research Technologist, Hladik Lab (University of Washington OB/GYN, Seattle Washington, USA, July 2023 – April 2025)
• Workshop Facilitator (Lavender Pi, Seattle, Washington, USA, January 2024 – Present)
• Laboratory Aid (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington, USA, June 2021 – June 2023); Boeckh Lab (August 2022 – June 2023), Bleakley Lab (June 2021 – August 2022)
• Temporary Enterprise Service Desk Representative (University of Washington IT, Seattle, Washington, USA, March 2020 – August 2020)
• Arts and Crafts Instructor (Little Hands Creations, Seattle, Washington, USA, September 2019 – March 2020)
• Laboratory Aid (Seattle Central College, Seattle, Washington, USA, December 2018 – March 2020)
• Research Associate Summer Intern (EnerG2, Seattle, Washington, USA, June 2018 – October 2018)
• Sample Preparation Technician (IEH Aquatic, Seattle, Washington, USA, July 2016 – October 2017)
• Math Tutor (Firefly Tutoring, Seattle, Washington, USA, June 2016 – March 2017)
• Private Tutor (Self Employed, San Luis Obispo, California, USA, October 2015 – May 2016)
• Math and Chemistry Tutor (Cuesta College Disability Services, San Luis Obispo, California, USA, August 2015 – July 2016)
• Speakers Bureau Speaker and Peer Educator (California Polytechnic State University LGBTQIA Pride Center Speakers Bureau, San Luis Obispo, California, USA, October 2009 – June 2011)

Examples of Talks and Workshops

The following is a small collection of examples of Dendron’s talks and workshops.

“Pelvic Organ Prolapse in Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender Diverse Individuals,” University of Washington Department of OB/GYN Research Hour (Seattle WA, January 2024)

“Transgender Patients of the Pacific Northwest,” facilitated since 2022, including for the following:

• • University of Washington Department of OB/GYN Hladik Lab, in installments (Seattle WA, August 2023 – January 2024)
  • Harborview Burn and Plastic Surgery Unit, Gender Affirming Care Group (Seattle WA, October 2022)

“Gender Neutral Language Techniques for English,” facilitated since 2012, including for the following:

• • Geek Girl Con (Seattle WA, October 2023, November 2024)
  • Bellevue College Professional Development Day (Bellevue WA, May 2022)
  • University of Washington College of Built Environments (Seattle WA, January 2022)
  • California Polytechnic State University Change the Status Quo Convention (San Luis Obispo CA, February 2012 and 2021)

Posters

“Effects of Testosterone Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) on the Cervicovaginal Tract During the First 3-12 Months of Treatment,” Out in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (oSTEM) Conference (Portland OR, Oct 2024)

“Aggregation of P-Bodies is Correlated with Remaining Cell Lifespan in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Cells that Experience Loss of rDNA Silencing,” University of Washington Undergraduate Research Symposium (Seattle WA, May 2023) PDF Download

“Investigating Aggregation of P-Bodies, Single Cell Aging, and Death Mode in Saccharomyces cerevisiae With Microfluidics and Automated Fluorescence Microscopy,” Bellevue College Undergraduate Research Symposium (Bellevue WA, March 2023) PDF Download