Low uGPA, strong otherwise. Care to evaluate my application?

[reformedlearner]

Please give me any feedback that you can. I welcome all the help I can get!


Undergraduate institution: Top 15, USA
Undergraduate GPA: 2.05 (not a typo)
Undergraduate Major: Molecular Biology & Bioinformatics

Graduate institution: Harvard Extension School
Graduate GPA: 3.8
Graduate major: Biotechnology - Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (master's program)

Years of Work Experience: 5ish

Describe Relevant Work Experience:
- 1y research associate (current) for exciting startup in my field
- 1y research assistant (current) for major research hospital (thesis related).
- 2.5y research associate for high-prestige core lab in my field.
- 8mo research intern, undergraduate
- 3mo contract research assistant, small startup

Publication record:
None as of yet , but should have 2 (based off thesis research) and MAYBE 1 (based off work) by the time I apply. Not sure of impact of journal, etc.
I have been acknowledged in a major PLoS paper, but alas acknowledgements count for nothing. Read as: 0 publications.

Posters/Presentations:
1 poster presented at a popular global conference in my field

SOP:
Will address low uGPA, upward trend, strong experience, and commitment to research.

Letters:
Plan is to have letters from 1 grad prof (3 classes, all As), my thesis advisor, and a former boss.

GRE:
Take my GRE Saturday. Will update with results.

 

Anything that you see that I can add here to attempt to compensate for my uGPA?


My unordered list is below which has been carefully selected from PIs that share my research interests. I know there are some big names on there, but I'm hoping that some are within my range.



Thanks in advance!
 

• yale - microbiology (biological and biomedical science)
• northeastern - biology
• u conn - molecular and cellular bio: microbiology
• u new hampshire - genetics
• u toronto - molecular genetics
• boston u - molecular biology, cell biology, and biochem (MCBB)
• harvard - organismal and evolutionary biology OR molecules, cells, and organisms
• u illinois uc - molecular and cellular biology
• brown (collab with MBL) - computational molecular biology (igert program - reverse ecology, microbial & comparitive genomics initiative)
• u mass amherst - molecular and cellular biology
• u waterloo - biology
• u georgia - microbiology OR genetics
• u mass boston - molecular, cellular, and organismal biology