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Somerville, MA, US

Advisor: Sebastian Lourido, Department of BiologyMIT Presidential Graduate Fellowship (2020-2021)NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2022-2027)

• Advisor: Gene-Wei Li, Department of Biology
• Characterized dual transcriptional-translational regulation in Bacillus subtilis using high-throughput sequencing and in vivo RNA structure probing.
• Oversaw supply and equipment orders, vendor management, chemical inventory maintenance, and safety compliance.

• Advisor: Adam Arkin, Department of Bioengineering
• Collaborated on an interdisciplinary project to construct a self-optimizing cellular system for delivering antibiotics in the human gut.
• Built a microfluidics platform for imaging the long-term competitive growth dynamics of antimicrobial-producing Escherichia coli at the single-cell scale.

• Co-founded the student organization Mycrobes to explore microbiome literature with undergraduates and recruit participants for a microbiome research study.
• Conducted a clinical trial with Institutional Review Board approval to investigate the effects of Soylent consumption on human gut microbiome composition.
• Discovered links between dietary changes and phyla-level microbiome composition and presented findings at the 16th World Congress of Gastroenterology.

• Advisor: Adam Arkin, Department of Bioengineering
• Developed strategies to assemble, sequence, and score pooled genomic expression libraries in Escherichia coli for engineering stable antibiotic biosynthesis.
• Validated Escherichia coli strains constructed for precision genome engineering by quantifying recombination, mutation, and growth rates.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Biology

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Molecular And Cell Biology