I am currently a graduate student in the "Genetics, Genomics, and Bioinformatics" PhD program at UC-Riverside.
At City of Hope, I was a Bioinformatics Specialist in the Integrative Genomics Core directed by Dr. Xiwei Wu (as well as an earlier Bioinformatics Core). I assisted scientists with microarray and next-generation sequencing analysis. In the Bioinformatics Core (also at City of Hope, directed by Dr. Yate-Ching Yuan), I had similar responsibilities but also occasionally assisted with imaging and proteomic analysis.
At UMDNJ, I conducted genomics research on herpesviruses (CMV and VZV) in the lab of Dr. Hua Zhu.
For my graduate work at Princeton, I was co-advised by Dr. John Storey and Dr. James R. Broach, and my master’s thesis focused on predicting regulatory motifs by integrating sequence features, gene expression and nucleosome binding data.
As an undergraduate at Georgia Tech, I worked under the guidance of Dr. Soojin Yi, conducting evolutionary genomic analysis in primates and yeast.
I have also worked in the Education Department at Zoo Atlanta as a trained animal handler and camp counselor for 3rd-5th graders.