I am a Bioinformatics MSc student at University of Copenhagen (KU), and I am doing my thesis project in the Computational Biology Lab at DCRC.
I started my science journey with a bachelor's degree in Biochemistry from the University of Bath, UK. As a part of my degree I did an industrial placement year in a molecular genetics company where I worked as a part of NGS analysis team. This experience has opened the exciting field of bioinformatics to me, and I loved it so much that I decided to pursue a career in it.
Prior to my Master thesis, I have also carried out a 2-month project in structural bioinformatics at CBL group. The goal was to analyze the stability of p53 tumor suppressor protein by studying the effect of in silico-introduced point mutations, and to perform the comparative analysis with the known cancer-related p53 mutational hotspots reported in cancer genomics databases.
For my Master thesis, I have change the direction and moved on to the -omics field. I am currently working with the TCGA database breast cancer gene expression data, with the focus on the autophagy pathway genes, with the goal of performing various downstream analyses, including enrichment, pathway, and other Bioconductor-facilitated analyses.