Postbaccalaureate Research Experience
Stanford University, School of Medicine
In preparation for PhD graduate programs, I am doing my postbac work at Stanford University as part of the School of Medicine's REACH Initiative Postbaccalaureate Research Program.
Currently, I am a life science research professional in Dr. William R. Goodyer's lab in the Center for Clinical Sciences Research (CCSR)​​. I am training in tissue culture work, specifically by using human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs), and by using mice as model organism to study the function and development of the cardiac conduction system.
Undergraduate Research Experience
UC Davis Genome Center
As a work-study undergraduate researcher in Dr. Megan Dennis's human genetics and genomics lab at the UC Davis Genome Center, I worked on a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded project where I validated differentially expressed genes that are found within structural variants to elucidate what factors contribute to diverse traits and diseases in modern humans.
I presented this work in poster sessions at the UC Davis Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities Conference in spring quarter 2024 and at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS) in Pittsburgh, PA in November 2024.
Undergraduate Research Course
UC Davis College of Biological Sciences
During my last year, I took the capstone course for cell biology majors (MCB 140L) led by Dr. Ken Kaplan. This course introduced me to cell biology techniques and research questions. We explored the mechanisms of cell autophagy in onset and progression of neurodegenerative disease using S. cerevisiae as model system. We found that Parkison's disease-associated α-synuclein induces nuclear endoplasmic reticulum autophagy pathways.
At the end of the course, I wrote a mini-paper on our findings and presented our results to our peers.