Yang Lab (UCLA, remote)(Jun 2020-Nov 2020)For a summer internship, I analyzed astrocytic heterogeneity in Alzheimer’s disease in Dr. Xia Yang’s lab at the University of California, Los Angeles. Although my previous coding experience had been in Python, I was able to work through tutorials and become proficient in R. By the end of the summer, I created a streamlined code for preliminary analysis of single-cell RNA-sequencing data. I also discovered many differentially expressed genes and pathways in astrocyte subpopulations. In November I presented my research at the 2020 Annual Biomedical Conference for Minority Students, where I won a presentation award. Through my experiences in immunology (McGuire Lab)and neuroscience, I have become fascinated with glial cells and neuroimmune pathology related to dementia. My artifact for this experience is a photo of my research poster and the remote setup I had while "attending" ABRCMS.
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Wang Lab(Sept 2020-Present)In the fall of senior year, I began a part-time internship analyzing microglial metabolomics during development with the Wang Lab in the UW Department of Computer Science and Engineering to hone my bioinformatics skills and continue learning about glial cells. Although most of my time is spent working with the McGuire lab, through this experience I have been able to learn many new skills in programming and learn a lot about metabolic pathways.
I took a break from Jan-March during graduate school interviews but have resumed working on the project with Yuliang. My artifact is a slide from one of my data presentations regarding similarities in upregulated differentially expressed metabolic genes in each developmental stage. |