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Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics

Bachelor of Arts in Molecular Cellular Biology, Emphasis in Genetics

Graduate Student Researcher, Shen Lab

• Leveraged genome-wide CRISPRi screens to identify thousands of cis-regulatory elements essential for iPSC fitness and cell survival during neuronal differentiation
• Optimized and assessed the quality of RNA-seq, ATAC-seq, and Hi-ChIP assays from 3rd trimester, neonatal, and adolescent human cortical samples that led to successful library preparation with less starting material
• Used support vector machine learning models to prioritize schizophrenia risk variants in human primary brain cells, and subsequently validated predicted enhancer function using mouse transgenic assays
• Mentored UC Berkeley undergraduate student thesis that prioritized GWAS variants with machine learning
• Collaborated with 5+ publications outside of thesis work

R Bootcamp Instructor

• Led an introduction course on R programing language and biostatistics for incoming graduate students

Teaching Assistant

• Assisted with Systems Pharmacology course teaching computational modeling and quantitative data analysis

Junior Specialist, Shen Lab

• Generated and analyzed RNA-seq, ATAC-seq, Hi-C, PLAC-seq, and CUT&RUN libraries
• Mentored local high school students through Lowell Student Research Program

Lab Assistant, Garbelotto Lab

• Identified and genotyped Phytophthora and presented educational talks to local nurseries

Lab Assistant, Glass Lab

• Engineered regions of zinc binuclear cluster transcription factors required for cellulase secretion in N. crassa

Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship

• Optimized transformation of L. starkeyi and determined the promoter strength using the reporter GUS

3D-epigenomic Characterization of Regulatory Elements, Neuropsychiatric Risk Variants, and Human Accelerated Regions in the Developing Human Cortex

• 4DN Annual Meeting

Unveiling the role of epigenomic features on RNA splicing throughout neural development using machine learning

• 4DN Hackathon

Functional Characterization of Gene Regulatory Elements and Neuropsychiatric Disease-Associated Risk Loci in iPSCs and iPSC-Derived Neurons

• 4DN Annual Meeting

• Honorable Mention in the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program