Dr. Curtis Huttenhower laboratory, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard Chan Center for the Microbiome in Public Health

• Building computational tools to discover abundance- and prevalence-based microbiome associations (maaslin3, available from BioConductor)
• Comparing taxonomic assignment tools in environmental microbiomes
• Creating software for conditional hypergeometric distributions (chyper, available from CRAN)
• 2021 Program for Research in Science and Engineering (PRISE) fellow
• 2022 Herchel Smith Undergraduate Science Research Program scholar

Dr. Daniel Neafsey laboratory, Department of Immunology and Infectious Disease

• Building computational tools to distinguish new vs. persistent malaria infections in longitudinal genotyping data (DINEMITES, available on GitHub)
• Collaborating with NIH biostatisticians on monoclonal antibody trials to prevent malaria

Dr. Douglas Kwon laboratory, Ragon Institute

• Analyzing >4000 publicly available microbiome samples to determine strain sharing of vaginal species
• Swab to sequencing whole metagenomic analysis of 400 new samples from a South African cohort

• Prepared original materials for and taught a weekly section to review and expand on class material
• Created a final review and held a 3-hour review lecture with guided problem solving
• Hosted weekly office hours
• In official student evaluations, 44 out of 45 students rated me “Excellent” (the highest rating) overall, and 41 out of 42 students rated my lectures and presentations “Excellent”
• Original section and final review material are available from GitHub

• Prepared original materials for and taught a weekly section to review and expand on class material
• Created an example midterm from scratch and held a review session in preparation for the class’s first midterm
• Held multiple weekly office hours
• In official student evaluations, 51 out of 55 students rated me “Excellent” (the highest rating) overall, and 47 out of 49 students rated my lectures and presentations “Excellent”
• Original section and midterm materials and full evaluations including student comments are available from GitHub

Dr. Kai Zhou lab for mitochondria and aging

• Designed and parameterized computational models of proton movement in mitochondria
• Developed 3D image analysis methods and statistical workflows for high-throughput protein localization screens
• Developed ‘omics pipelines for analyzing mitoribosome data
• Developed 2D and 3D methods for visualizing and quantifying mitoribosome conformation changes

Dr. Yunsun Nam laboratory, UT Southwestern Green Center for Reproductive Biology

• Researched DEAD-box helicase binding to RNA G-quadruplexes through the STARS program.
• Learned PCR, Western blotting, bacterial transformation, Ni-NTA purification, chromatography, EMSA, and crystal tray setup.
• Presented findings at a UT Southwestern poster session and high school symposium.