Christopher Rodriguez Email & Phone Number

Boston, MA, US

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

I am a Computational and Systems Biology PhD student at MIT in the Reddien lab. I am currently investigating claims of agelessness in the animal kingdom. Demographic studies have failed to find evidence of aging in several organisms, including highly regenerative planarian flatworms and hydra. However, some theoretical arguments claim that aging should.

Ruston, LA

I paired up with John Mapes, a PhD student from LA Tech, to try to increase the accuracy of Disulfide Bond prediction techniques that currently exist. In proteins, the amino acid cysteine forms a strong disulfide bond with other cysteines. If one can predict which cysteines will bond in a protein, predicting the 3D structure of that protein becomes much.

Boston

I participated in MSRP BIO (MIT's Summer Research Program in Biology) during my junior summer in 2018. During this REU, I worked in Dr. Tomaso Poggio's Lab in the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT's Building 46. My project focused on understanding how and why robustness evolves in neural networks during their training regiments. "Robustness" is.

Thibodaux, LA

Assisted with the mapping of various strains of the HIV virus via TCL and Python scriptsAutomated the process of submitting and retrieving proteins from the ITASSER serverSimulated solvating and ionizing proteins for further analysisAutomated the running of NAMD scripts on the proteins to fold them correctlyCreated phylogenetic trees of the virus samples.

Ruston, LA

I had the opportunity to participate in a paid data science internship for CenturyLink during the spring of my junior year in 2018. During my work there, I attempted to connect several databases that existed in the CenturyLink Data Lake. When records from different databases are connected with each other, then the data becomes exponentially more powerful..

Boston

I attended the BRITE (Bioinformatics Research and Interdisciplinary Training Experience) REU at Boston University during my sophmore summer in 2017. As part of this REU, I developed Micro Droplet Rate/Region Ocular Processor for the Densmore Lab. This program takes videos of microfluidic droplet generators and automatically calculates the droplet.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Computational Biology

Phd Candidate in the Computational and Systems Biology program researching in the Reddien Lab.

Bachelor'S Degree, Cyber Engineering, 3.97 Gpa

Activities and Societies: President of LA Tech's chapter of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), Captain of the VEX.

4.46 Weighted Gpa (Salutatorian)

Activities and Societies: Academic Team, Symphonic Band and Marching Band, National Honor Society, Academic Rally Participant, Science.