• Investigated the role of CD163 positive macrophages in the formation of vascular calcification through western blotting and ELISA methods on knockout mouse plaque and human carotid plaque samples• Performed variant curation following ACMG guidelines of cardiomyopathy and arrhythmia variants found in unexplained sudden cardiac death individuals to determine pathogenicity • Determined indels of RNAseq FastQ data from carotid plaques by using the GATK HaplotypeCaller pipeline • Performed immunohistochemical analysis using HALO image software on human coronary artery plaques to evaluate the significance of genetic variants or disease on various IHC markers

• Measured lipid peroxidation of plasma from F2 intercross mice and identified loci by quantitative trait locus analysis with R/qtl software; found genetic evidence of dyslipidemia-induced oxidative stress• Performed manual segmentation of images used for machine learning-based quantification of abdominal fat on human CT images as well as atherosclerotic plaques of mice

• Used suiteHEART software to obtain cardiac measurements including ejection fraction, cardiac output, EDV, ESV, and peak filling rate for research on cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) outcomes and the impact of sequence methods on MR imaging• Obtained patient data from Epic for research on clinical outcomes in heart failure after CRT

• Researched the direct measurement of cortical force generation and polarization in a living parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, using a laser trap• Learned BSL-2 lab protocol including cell culture, passaging, freezing cells, and aseptic techniques