Analyzing single-cell RNA sequencing data for obesity and neurodegenerative diseases; developing and training AI models to infer PPI (protein-protein-interaction) modules from single-cell dataPI: Professor Manolis Kellis; Supervisor: Dr. Zunpeng Liu

• Studying the effect of phosphorylation on tau aggregation in Alzheimer’s Disease• Recreated phosphomimetic mutants in vitro, analyzed NMR spectra, conducted TEM, molecular cloning, protein expression and purification• PI: Professor Mei Hong, Supervisor: Dr. Nadia El Mammeri

Worked on bioinformatic phylogeny inference of PioA and related genes in Ellis Island R. plaustris isolates and their role in regulating extracellular electron transfer with PhD student Brian Gallagher.

Studied S. mediterranea regeneration through the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway via RNAi post-transcriptional gene silencing with Michael Edgar.

Investigated PHB bioplastic production in phototrophic Rhodopseudomonas palustris TIE-1 with Tahina Ranaivoarisoa and Dr. Arpita Bose in the Bose Lab.

Studied the evolutionary behavior and acquired antibiotic resistance of Escherichia coli biofilms exposed to varying concentrations of ampicillin under the guidance of Michael Edgar."Investigating facilitated biofilm formation in Escherichia coli exposed to sublethal levels of ampicillin" Published in the Journal of Emerging Investigators

Performed growth analysis and ethanol production quantification of pda1 deletion mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae BY4741 under the guidance of Tahina Ranaivoarisoa and Dr. Arpita Bose in the Bose Lab.First author of "Improved Ethanol Tolerance and Production in Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae"

Cloned Saccharomyces cerevisiae BY4741 cells with the constructed recombinant pCRCT-PDA1 plasmid for PDA1 gene knockout and screened candidates for deletion mutants.