Career Profile
Looking to attend graduate school for biostatistics.
Experiences
- Working in synthetic biology group
- Contributed to the synthetic biology groups investigation in the optimization of an antimicrobial compound
- Utilized Snakemake to analyze long-read PacBio sequencing data
- Leveraged Python and R to analyze optical density data, revealing variation that will be addressed in the recultivation of select samples
- Collaborated with Department of Energy scientist in the Earth and Biological Sciences and Energy and Environment directorates
- Wrote Report and Presented Poster: Optimization of Violacein Biosynthesis for Enhanced Antimicrobial Properties
- Worked with infectious disease researcher analyzing data from SARS2 infected mice
- Collaborated with working biostatisticians to conduct analyzes in R
- Applied statistical analysis to RNA sequencing data to identify significant genes for future lab projects
- Analyzed significant genes in Ingenuity Pathway Analysis to explore gene pathways, results implied STING1 inhibition being linked to Xaf1 activation in MGL-1 KO SARS2 infected mice
- Presented poster: MGL-1: An Unrecognized Player in Xaf1 Pathway Activation Following SARS-CoV-2 Infection
Projects
Academic Projects at UT-Dallas
Bike Sharing Analysis
- Optimized a negative binomial regression model with variable selection and transformations.
Summer Olympic Medal Trends
- Utilized R to visualize and hypothesize on olympic medal counts.