Experience

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  The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

  • Baltimore, Maryland

  • Research Technologist

    • Jun 2018 - Present
    • Baltimore, Maryland

    • Primarily worked with the isolation of PBMCs from whole blood and bone marrow from patients enrolled in clinical trials by using ficoll separation method.• Maintained a vast database in MS Excel containing the location of samples stored in liquid nitrogen.• Assisted in analyzing flow cytometr...

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  University of Houston-Clear Lake

  • Houston, Texas

  • Storing Digital Data in DNA (CAPSTONE Project, Master’s)

    • Jan 2018 - Present
    • Houston, Texas

    • Authored a secondary research paper discussing the prospect of storing digital data in DNA as a part of my CAPSTONE project during my Master’s program.

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  University of Houston - Clear Lake

  • Houston, Texas Area

  • Secondary paper:Identifying heat resistant genes in corals to save all corals...

    • Jan 2017 - Jun 2017
    • Houston, Texas Area

    • Authored a secondary research paper discussing the various steps involved in identifying, and subsequently using this data to possibly save multiple coral species from extinction.• Involves the application of heat-stress experiments, Real time PCR (qPCR) and Genome sequencing and annotation (RN...

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  Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering and Technology

  • Designed and Constructed a Stainless Steel Fermentor for the production of Homemade Wine

    • Dec 2015 - Jun 2016

    • Designed and constructed a portable fermenter from scratch and tested it by brewing two batches of grape wine.• Regularly measured and successfully manipulated the alcoholic content of the wine during the fermentation process.

  • Improved the nutritional intake of food by using enzymes for pre-processing

    • Jun 2015 - Dec 2015

    • Worked on using cellulase to pre-process leafy vegetables by targeting the cellulosic content in the cell walls of the cells.• Extracted cellulase from the fungi Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which was to be used for the pre-processing of spinach.

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  Hyderabad Science Society - India

  • Hyderabad, India

  • Trainee

    • Jun 2015 - Nov 2015
    • Hyderabad, India