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Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU)
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I started in January 2025 as a Bioinformatics Research Scientist in the VCU School of Medicine: Stravitz-Sanyal Institute for Liver Disease and Metabolic Health.
Some of my projects include:
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VCU Stravitz-Sanyal
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Emory University (Ph.D. research)
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My dissertation research was done in the lab of Dr. Zhaohui "Steve" Qin in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics. It revolved around bioinformatics and genomic data science, in particular, the following projects:
I enrolled in Emory University's Neuroscience Graduate Program in the summer of 2017 and graduated in December 2024. All students are required to complete at least three "rotation" projects in different labs. For my first rotation project, I worked under Dr. Chad Hales in the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease investigating the aggregation properties of certain candidate proteins in post-mortem cases of frontotemporal dementia (FTD). FTD is a neurodegenerative disorder. We conducted an extensive literature review on a proteomic dataset to determine which proteins warranted further investigation. For my second rotation project, I worked under Dr. Brad Pearce in the Department of Epidemiology investigating sex differences in physiological predictors of aggression. I was tasked with taking an MPH thesis and condensing it into a publishable manuscript. The thesis project looked at how changes in fear-potentiated acoustic startle, resting heart rate, and heart rate variability were correlated with self-reported aggression scores. For my third rotation project, I worked under Dr. Jennifer Mulle and Dr. Joseph Cubells in the Department of Human Genetics investigating the neuronal phenotype of a rare chromosomal microdeletion called the 3q29 deletion syndrome. This deletion of 22 protein-coding genes on the long arm of chromosome 3 is considered a copy number variant and confers a 40-fold increased risk for schizophrenia and is associated with other cognitive phenotypes. |
Dr. Qin's faculty profile
Dr. Hales' lab webpage
Emory Neuroscience Graduate Program
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High school and college research
Yale University
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In the summer of 2010, I worked at Yale University's Child Study Center under the supervision of Dr. Yuko Kataoka and Dr. Flora Vaccarino, the Principal Investigator, on a project on my own condition, Tourette Syndrome. I learned immunohistochemistry as well as a bit of stereology. My findings became incorporated into a larger study (a transcriptome analysis) that was published in 2016, and I was a co-author on the paper. You can check it out here.
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Dr. Vaccarino's laboratory
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UC Davis Medical Center
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In the summer of 2012, I was an Edmondson Research Fellow at the UC Davis Medical Center working under Dr. Josh Miller and Dr. Ralph Green, the Principal Investigator, on a project on homocysteine in Alzheimer's disease. I learned about one-carbon metabolism and how to use high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC). I attempted to correlate homocysteine measurements to Alzheimer's disease and dementia progression in my project.
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The Hugh Edmondson internship program
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The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
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In the summer of 2015, I worked at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research under the supervision of Dr. Eric Chang. I used image analysis software to compare DTI (diffusion tensor imaging) white matter integrity to labeled fiber tracts in CLARITY whole brains. CLARITY is a relatively new technique that allows the investigator to make the mouse brain transparent, and it allows for greater resolution imaging and for molecular phenotyping of neuronal circuits. I was a co-author on the conference abstract.
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The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
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Side Projects
Democratic vs. Republican leadership
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I wanted to examine whether Democratic or Republican presidencies were better for the economy. Here's what I found!
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