#Graduate Student Researcher (Rotation) UT MDACC Mar. 2023- May 2023

Advisor: Loukia Karacosta, Ph.D. Project: Evaluate MUC1 activity in Circulating Tumor cells and cell lines of Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC). Performed CyTOF and Immunohistochemistry & analyzed Single cell proteomics in SCLC

#Graduate Student Researcher (Rotation) UT MDACC Oct. 2022-Dec 2022

Advisor: Nidhi Sahni, Ph.D. and Daniel McGrail, Ph.D. Co-Developed a bioinformatics pipeline for Massively Parallel Reporter Assays library. Performed CRISPR Screen data analyses using MAGeCK.

#Undergraduate Student Researcher St. Mary’s University Aug. 2020-May 2022

Advisor: Erika Schwarz Taylor, Ph.D. Thesis: Identifying Molecular Markers for Early Detection of Toxic Cyanobacteria and Dinoflagellates. Identified Saxitoxin Gene Cluster as a potential target region for species specific probe to detect toxic Algae

#Summer Undergraduate Researcher UT MDACC Jun. 2021- Aug. 2021

Advisor: Robert C. Bast Jr.,MD Project: Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor as a Potential Target for Eliminating Dormant Autophagic Ovarian Cancer Cells Identified Infigratinib, FDA approved FGFR inhibitor as a potential therapeutic in preclinical trials pending animal model studies and clinical trials. CPRIT-CURE Summer Program Fellow

#Undergraduate Student Researcher St. Mary’s University Aug. 2018- Jul. 2020

Advisor: Verónica Contreras-Shannon, Ph.D. Project: Effect of pressure on Beta Tubulin isoforms in different cell types in the mouse. The aim was to understand if (and how) tumors exerting pressure on adjacency tissue/structures, affects the expression of genes related to Beta Tubulin isoforms

#Summer Student Researcher Bowling Green State University, BG, Ohio May 2019- Jul. 2019

Advisor: Mikhail Zamkov,,Ph.D. and Dmitriy Khon, Ph.D. Project: Quantum dot Alloy synthesis. Synthesizing QD Alloys using digestive ripening. Findings led to the publication “Tuning the Dimensionality of Excitons in Colloidal Quantum Dot Molecules”.

#References:

  1. Lauren E. Colbert, MD, MSCR, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX Contact: lcolbert@mdanderson.org

  2. Loukia G. Karacosta, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Cancer Systems Imaging, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX Contact: lgkaracosta@mdanderson.org

  3. Robert C. Bast, M.D., Vice President for Translational Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX Contact: rbast@mdanderson.org

  4. Verónica Contreras-Shannon, Ph.D. Professor and Program Director – MARC U*STAR, Department of Biological SciencesSt. Mary’s University, San Antonio, TX Contact: vcontrerasshann2@stmarytx.edu

  5. Erika Schwarz Taylor, Ph.D. Sr. Field Bioinformatics Support Scientist, Illumina || Co-founder & Scientific advisor, Environmental Quality Operations Contact: erika.schwarz@eqo.life

  6. Dmitriy Khon, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and BiochemistrySt. Mary’s University, San Antonio, TX Contact: dkhon@stmarytx.edu