Topics include: Object-oriented programming, Rails MVC framework, test-driven development, React + Redux, RESTful API design, debugging strategies, Git workflow, and programming best practices.

Delivered lectures on Algorithms, SQL, Authentication, and React.

Managed 21 student final projects: mentored application design, planned MVP deadlines, debugged development and deployment, and performed code reviews.

Presented research at 3 poster sessions and 6 lab meetings; Wrote technical reports and distilled complex data into compelling visuals.

Conducted a saturated forward genetic screen through all stages, obtained candidate suppressor lines, and identified genetic basis for a missing biochemical step in plant defense hormone metabolism.

Pinpointed causal mutations from >10,000 genomic variants using mapping-by-sequencing and genome-wide SNP filtering.

Analyzed metabolomic variation by clustering differential metabolites.

Designed and delivered a 3-day guest-lecture on Next-Gen Sequencing to MIT senior lab course (7.15); Taught how to pre-process, assemble, and map genomic data. Created sample files to optimize signal:noise for homozygosity mapping.

Lab Skills: Liquid/Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry, Molecular Cloning, Agrobacterium-mediated Transformation, CRISPR-Cas9, Liquid and Solid Cell culture, Protein Expression, Protein Purification, X-ray Crystallography