Crisandro Allen Lazo Email & Phone Number

Manila, Ncr, Ph

Department Of Physical Sciences And Mathematics, University Of The Philippines Manila

The Joint Bioinorganic and Biocomputational (JBB) Sciences group actively engages in research within the fields of computational biology and chemistry, chemoinformatics and bioinformatics, and bioinorganic chemistry. It is presently headed by Dr. Junie Billones and is under the Department of Physical Sciences and Mathematics of the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of the Philippines Manila.For my undergraduate thesis, I am currently modeling select gene regulatory network motifs subject to stochastic gene expression. Drawing on nonlinear stochastic dynamical systems theory, I probe its dynamics and landscape from simulation data and characterize the behavior of these networks in individual cells and in spatially extended populations. In doing so, I intend to determine the effects of the inherent stochasticity or noise of cellular processes on these networks of gene interaction and how this is translated to patterns of gene expression. Given the nature of this work, I am supervised by Dr. Junie Billones, affiliated with the same department, and by Dr. Paul Gerald Sanchez, presently working in the Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology of Academia Sinica, Taiwan.Visit the lab's website here! https://dpsm.cas.upm.edu.ph/index.php/joint-bioinorganic-and-biocomputational-sciences-jbbs-group/

Taipei City, Taiwan

The Taiwan International Graduate Program - International Internship Program (TIGP-IIP) is a pre-doctoral research program in Academia Sinica intended for foreign students. For the summer 2024 term, I was selected among hundreds of applicants to work in the Kamino Lab of the Institute of Molecular Biology which seeks to determine the principles that govern adaptive cellular behavior and biological intelligence.For my two-month internship at the Kamino lab, I engaged in their ongoing project on bacterial swimming motility dynamics. I primarily did some (1) programming in Python and MatLab, and (2) wet lab experiments where I prepared and tracked cultures of E. coli. Beyond the formal end of the TIGP-IIP, I am still participating in the lab's projects by building and training machine learning models for data analysis. Given that this work is still in progress, I cannot divulge other information.

Emsl, University Of The Philippines Los Banos, Los Banos, Philippines

During my undergraduate internship course, I worked at the Electron Microscopy Services Laboratory (EMSL) of the National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (UPLB-BIOTECH) at the University of the Philippines Los Banos, supporting the various research activities of the laboratory and of external clients. Currently, the EMSL is the only laboratory in the Philippines that provides services in the preparation of biological samples for scanning and transmission electron microscopy.The main highlight of my time as an intern at the EMSL was the preparation of fungal mycelia for SEM of fungal plant pathogens which we grew along with Bacillus isolates (via dual culture plate assay) to determine the effects of antifungal agents in Bacillus species on the ultrastructure of economically important fungal phytopathogens. Apart from this, my time as an intern practiced my basic microbiological techniques.During my time as an intern, I also assisted in facilitating the two-day seminar and workshop conducted by the EMSL at the University of the Philippines Manila. I was able to gain some insights on teaching hands-on skills to undergraduate students and professionals of various academic backgrounds.Visit the lab's website here! https://biotech.uplb.edu.ph/laboratory-services/electron-microscopy-services-laboratory/

Good Vibes Laboratory, University Of The Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines

The Good ViBEs (Virtual Biochemical Explorations) laboratory is a research group under the College of Science of the University of the Philippines Diliman. The group employs computational approaches to several areas of chemistry and biochemistry.The internship program by the Good ViBEs laboratory primarily focused on the docking of small molecules to proteins. The program heavily emphasized the use of the Windows Subsystem for Linux in carrying out tasks. I ran AutoDock VINA through the WSL command line and visualized the docking poses and interactions on PyMOL using the gWSL user interface. We were also introduced to and were tasked to install other programs used in computational chemistry such as VMD, UCSF Chimera, MGLTools, Open3DQSAR, Open3DAlign, Osiris, LigPlotPlus, and AmberTools.Visit the lab's website here! https://www.facebook.com/goodvibesupd/

As a Content Contributor, I wrote solutions for textbook problems on high school level general mathematics, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus. This job cultivated my skills in writing solutions using TeX and it helped me become more mindful of the pace that I work, especially given that the time I spent working and the quality of my solutions were used to evaluate my work.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biochemistry, 1.1682 (Total); 1.1635 (Curriculum) Out Of 1.000 [Summa Cum Laude Standing]

The B.S. Biochemistry program aims to initiate the development of manpower capabilities in theoretical and practical aspects.

Senior High School Diploma, Science, Technology, Engineering, And Mathematics, With Highest Honors