University: Princeton University
Hometown: Bethesda, MD
NIH Research Project:
Computational Analysis of Overlapping Genes in Bacteria and Archaea
Mentor: Eugene V. Koonin, Ph.D.
National Center for Biotechnology Information
National Library of Medicine
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I am a sophomore at Princeton University, considering a major in biology, computer science, or mathematics. My main research interest is computational biology. My interest in computational biology began with a project analyzing the alignments of the genomes of Caenorhabditis elegans and C. briggsae under the direction of Dr. Kondrashov at Cornell University in 1997. The aim of the project was to deduce the degree and the patterns of evolutionary divergence between the two organisms. Though my contributions to the research were mostly technical, I learned that bioinformatics was a very productive way to combine my interests. I had another research opportunity with the Research Science Institute, working at the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence at the MIT.
My first summer with the UGSP is my longest and most involved participation in research to date, and I am very grateful to have this opportunity. I am working under the direction of Dr. Eugene Koonin at the National Center for Biotechnology Information. I am currently trying to determine how overlapping genes appear in bacterial genomes, and how the sites of overlap are further shaped by evolution. |
