Year: 2021

Lab / Organization: Saltikov lab – UCSC I was a rotation student my fellowship year. I rotated through the Saltikov lab which studied environmental microbiology, the Yildiz lab which studied pathogenesis, and the Lowe lab that does tRNA bioinformatic research. I ended up choosing Chad Saltikov’s lab where I began my thesis research on how…

Lab / Organization: UC Santa Cruz For my fellowship year, I worked with Professor Nader Pourmand on advancing his nanopipette work during the Fall quarter, followed by Professor Mark Akeson in the Winter quarter on understanding single-channel nanopore technology, and Professor David Haussler in the Spring quarter on assessing kmer-based haplogrouping of centromeric arrays. My…

Lab / Organization: Brooks Lab, UCSC In my fellowship year, I tested a pipeline to detect cancerous exon skipping events in immortalized tracheobronchial epithelial cells by growing mixes populations of wild-type and mutant cells in soft agar, a substrate that selects for oncogenic growth. My current project’s goal is to investigate how cigarette smoke and…