About Me

I graduated from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) in 2019 with a Bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences and a minor in Bioinformatics. I was an undergraduate research assistant in Dr. Tallie Z. Baram’s lab for three years. My undergraduate research projects focused on understanding the electrophysiological and behavioral outcomes of blocking an inflammatory pathway in rats after Febrile Status Epilepticus (FSE). I learned to analyze Electroencephalogram (EEG) data, perform Novel Object Location (NOL) and Object Location Memory (OLM) tests and interpret the data, and other common lab techniques. Moreover, I completed projects in Bioinformatics involving Principal Component Analysis (PCA), and genome assembly tools. Currently, I am a research technician in Dr. Christiane Wrann’s lab at MGH/HMS to understand the effects of FNDC5/Irisin, a hormone released during exercise, in adult neurogenesis using a mice model.

I am applying for graduate programs for Fall 2021.

Things I Can Do

I have developed a wide range of skill sets during my undergraduate and my current job.

  • Brain storm
  • Design and perform biological experiments
  • Programming in Python and R
  • Literature search
  • Oral and poster presentation
  • Drink much coffee

A Few Accomplishments

Under Construction!

Yeast Genome Assembly

In this project, we used publicly available Saccharomyces cerevisiae W303 PacBio data to assemble the yeast genome by using Canu. In the polishing stage, Quiver was applied to correct the structure, and Pilon was used to correcting nucleotides. Busco score was calculated to evaluate the assembly results, while basic statistical results were obtained by using Quast and used to compare our assembly results with the reference genome. Cumulative Distribution Function (CDF) was also used to determine the continuity of the assembled genome. Lastly, we run Augustus and TrinityStats to report the genome annotation and its basic statistical results, respectively.