Experience

UC San Diego School of Medicine

• United States
• Higher Education
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Undergraduate Researcher

  • Jun 2023 - Present

  PI: Karl Wahlin - Designing CRISPRa gene cassettes for stable integration and expression in human stem cells - Activating expression of key transcription factors in retinal development - Comparison efficacy of dCas9, dCpf1, and dCasMini systems to reprogram stem cells PI: Karl Wahlin - Designing CRISPRa gene cassettes for stable integration and expression in human stem cells - Activating expression of key transcription factors in retinal development - Comparison efficacy of dCas9, dCpf1, and dCasMini systems to reprogram stem cells



UC San Diego

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • Oct 2020 - Present

  PI: Prashant Mali - Engineering AAV tropism by displaying peptides on AAV capsid structure - Utilized machine learning models to predict structures of approximately 50 different peptide-displaying AAV’s at different sites and recorded predicted alignment scores with original AAV’s - Maintained and transfected multiple mammalian cell lines including HEK, Hela, MDMA, A549, and K562 - Worked on building AAV constructs, performing peptide screen, validating hits, analyzing data PI: Prashant Mali - Engineering AAV tropism by displaying peptides on AAV capsid structure - Utilized machine learning models to predict structures of approximately 50 different peptide-displaying AAV’s at different sites and recorded predicted alignment scores with original AAV’s - Maintained and transfected multiple mammalian cell lines including HEK, Hela, MDMA, A549, and K562 - Worked on building AAV constructs, performing peptide screen, validating hits, analyzing data



MP Biomedicals

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Research And Development Intern

  • Jul 2022 - Sep 2022

  - Part of the UCSD Biological Sciences Co-Op Program where students get hands-on work experience with a Life Sciences company and develop professional skills - Developed and optimized a procedural MTS cell viability assay for use in product testing and quality assurance (SoA). - Streamlined the Cell Biology product line page by reorganizing products and designing landing pages for a customer-oriented web interface. - Compared market prices for nearly 200 Cell Biology products to make price suggestions for the following year. - Investigated the efficiency of three different exosome purification procedures as potential implementation in a new product. Show less