Undergraduate Research Assistant
My past research was with Dr. Laura Reed, whose interests are in studying genotype by diet interactions that underlie complex metabolic disease (Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetes) using Drosophila as a model system. Over the past 3.5 years working with Dr. Reed, I have learned fly stock maintenance, RT-PCR, RNA primer design, as well as how to use various software packages including JMP, SPSS, and Geneious. I have contributed to three projects while in the lab, studying pupal adhesion genes, endocannabinoids, and the roles of genotype by diet interactions in modulating pupal weight and have formally presented the findings from these projects at various research conferences.