With the guidance of Wei Li, I joined his project of identifying potential drug targets of SARS-Cov-2 funded by the COVID-19 HPC Consortium. In the project, by combining several CRISPR-screening data sets, I found several proviral genes in the human body capable of facilitating the virus’s growth, and proliferation and several antiviral genes in the human body capable of defending the invasion of viruses.

Participated in Professor Rong Li’s project – “the relationship between NELFB and the elongation process of DNA transcription”. For the wet lab part, I was acting as one of the researchers to learn and help other members perform some experiments like western blot, qPCR, Bradford protein assay, etc. For the computing part, since our lab has already generated some ChIP-seq data using NELFB and Pol II antibodies in mouse CD8 T cells and they want to know whether the binding sites of NELFB and NFkb have some in common or not. So, I was trying to find some published Chip-seq data of NFkb and Pol II antibodies in CD8 T cells and aligned them up by using IGV browser.