•Awarded Best Undergraduate Poster by Northeastern American Society of Plant Biologists.
•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