Career Profile

Looking to attend graduate school for biostatistics.

Experiences

Masters Intern

04.2025 - Present
Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland WA
  • Working in synthetic biology group

Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship

01.2025 - 04.2025
Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland WA
  • 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

Summer Research Student

06.2024 - 07.2024
University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston TX
  • 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.
SULI Deliverables