Summer Undergraduate Research Program – UT MD Anderson, Houston, Texas
06/2016 – 08/2016
•  Awarded with stipends to intern in a bioinformatics lab of brain cancer
•  Attended meetings and lectures; shadowed weekly at the neuro-oncology and breast surgical departments.
•  Conducted and presented two research projects: one comparing three computational tools of telomere length detection, TelSeq, TelomereHunter and Computel, the other identifying a cross-platform model that transforms RNA-sequencing data to microarray in CiberSort, a microenvironment prediction algorithm.

Harper Cancer Research Institute – Notre Dame, IN
08/2015 – 05/2016
•  Performed survival and regressional analysis on TCGA endometrial cancer data, using R and excel.
•  Assisted in the tissue bank with tissue labeling, preserving, scanning, H&E (Hematoxylin and Eosin) staining, immunohistochemistry staining, and paraffin blocks cutting.

System Biology Lab – Notre Dame, IN
05/2015 – 07/2015
•  Interned with stipends to investigate the function of Gli2, a gene found in mouse embryonic stem cells, in human pluripotent stem cells.
•  Performed regularly DNA/RNA extraction, cell culture, SDS PAGE, and fluorescent microscopy.

Emotion and Stress Physiology lab – Notre Dame, IN
08/2014 – 05/2015
•  Ran study sessions examining people’s attitude towards food and the effect of oxytocin on stress responses.
•  Sorted, identified, and analyzed peaks on EEG and RSP data.