Thomas Bello Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

Wrote and published a publicly-available web application (KInhibition) using Shiny in R that compiles data from large-scale drugs screens to allow users to identify selective inhibitors for their chosen kinase(s)Applied a combination of computational and biological techniques to investigate the role of kinase-related signaling in the progression of prostate cancer and predict effective therapiesDeveloped a novel method to integrate known protein-protein interactions with a functional kinase inhibitor screen to generate a predicted network of kinase-centered signaling contributing to a measured phenotype

Seattle, Wa

Through the MCB program at the University of Washington, I was able to participate in a Biotechnology Externship. For 3 months during the summer, I worked at Omeros Corporation, a local pharmaceutical company that specializes in targeting the complement system of the human immune system. I worked to develop an assay to be used in robotic high throughput screening for early stage drug discovery.

Tucson, Arizona Area

In Dr. Ted Trouard's lab, I developed a semi-automatic workflow for analyzing the effect of a parasite known as toxoplasma gondii on rodent brains. This involved writing MatLab scripts to locate infected cells from histology image slices and quantify their location in a semi-automatic manner, using the Allen Brain Atlas of a mouse brain as a reference. The final product allowed for a much faster analysis and quantification of the image slices obtained. This work was done in collaboration with Dr. Anita Koshy's laboratory.

London, United Kingdom

Under Dr. Matthew Wall, I worked with a team of researchers to examine the effects of new multiband acquisition sequences for functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). This process included surveying the literature to establish the current state of this new technology, designing and implementing and experimental protocol to test the new sequences on two MRI scanners, and analysis of the data using the FSL pacakge and MatLab to implement a more advanced technique known as MultiVoxel Pattern Analysis. The results of our experiment are currently being compiled into a manuscript to be submitted.

Tucson, Arizona Area

I tutored the student athletes in math courses ranging from college algebra to vector calculus, as well as in introductory calculus-based physics, both mechanics and electricity and magnetism.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Cell/Cellular And Molecular Biology

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude And Honors

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mathematics, Summa Cum Laude