CV
Education
- B.A. in Biochemistry, Claremont McKenna College, 2016
- Ph.D in Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University, 2023
Work
- 2016-2017: Research Assistant
- MiRagen Therapeutics
- Duties included:
- Screening New Candidate miRNA therapeutics
- Developing a cell-culture based immunogenicity assay
- Supervisor: Corrie Gallant-Behm and Joseph Piper
- 2020 - Present: Research Associate / Consultant
- Longitude Capital
- Duties included:
- Due diligence on life science tools companies
- Distillation broad sectors of science (Genomics, Proteomics, Enzyme Engineering) into clear investment theses
- Supervisor: Brian Liu
Skills
- High-Throughput Sequencing
- Illumina
- PacBio
- NGS library design, quality control, and preparation
- Single-Cell Genomics
- Droplet-Based Single Cell (e.g. 10X Genomics)
- Smart-Seq2
- Computational Pipelines and applications of Machine Learning to these data
- Immunology
- Isolating single cell suspensions from various organs: Spleen, Vertebral Body, Lymph Node, Blood
- Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting
Service and leadership
- FAST (Future Advancers of Science and Technology)
- Guided 6 students from in extended scientific investigations based on their personal interests.
- Focused the broad curiousity about biology from high school students into a tangible, tractable, and scientifc pursuit
- Example Project a student Completed: Can the sweetness of a watermelon be predicted by its outward appearance?
- Stanford Advance Summer Institute
- Developed workshops on important aspects of the transition to graduate school from undergraduate
- Presented these workshops to incoming graduate students
- Worked with invited faculty to ensure guest workshops ran efficiently and smoothly
