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Education

• Ph.D in Biology, 2026 (expected)
• M.S. in Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, 2021
• B.S. in Microbiology, University of California San Diego, 2020
• B.S. in Mathematics - Applied Sciences, University of California San Diego, 2020

Work experience

• Fall 2020: Research Assistant I
  • Sanford Burnham Prebys
  • Duties included: Illumina sequencing, Nanopore sequencing, antibiotic resistance screening, evolutionary biology
  • Supervisor: Andrei Osterman
• Fall 2017-Spring 2020: Undergraduate Research
  • University of California San Diego
  • Duties included: Bioinformatics, Metagenome assemblies, proteomics
  • Supervisor: Dr. Milton Saier PhD, Arturo Medrano Sato Luis PhD

Skills

Wet Lab

• Next gen sequencing
  • Illumina
  • Nanopore
  • PacBio
• Microbiological techniques
• Genetic screening

Dry Lab

• Bioinformatics
• Data Science
• Mathematical modelling
• Computer Languages
  • Python
  • R
  • Arduino/C++

Publications

A systems approach discovers the role and characteristics of seven LysR type transcription factors in Escherichia coli

Rodionova, I. A., Gao, Y., Monk, J., Hefner, Y., Wong, N., Szubin, R., Lim, H. G., Rodionov, D. A., Zhang, Z., Saier, M. H., Jr, & Palsson, B. O. (2022). A systems approach discovers the role and characteristics of seven LysR type transcription factors in Escherichia coli. Scientific reports, 12(1), 7274.

Shared and Unique Evolutionary Trajectories to Ciprofloxacin Resistance in Gram-Negative Bacterial Pathogens

Zlamal, J. E., Leyn, S. A., Iyer, M., Elane, M. L., Wong, N. A., Wamsley, J. W., Vercruysse, M., Garcia-Alcalde, F., & Osterman, A. L. (2021). Shared and Unique Evolutionary Trajectories to Ciprofloxacin Resistance in Gram-Negative Bacterial Pathogens. mBio, 12(3), e0098721.

The SARS-Coronavirus Infection Cycle: A Survey of Viral Membrane Proteins, Their Functional Interactions and Pathogenesis

Wong, N. A., & Saier, M. H., Jr (2021). The SARS-Coronavirus Infection Cycle: A Survey of Viral Membrane Proteins, Their Functional Interactions and Pathogenesis. International journal of molecular sciences, 22(3), 1308.

Talks

Talk 1 on Relevant Topic in Your Field

March 01, 2012

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Teaching

AS.020.129.12.IN25 The Microscopic Secret Society Of Bacteria That Rule The World

AS.020.315 Biochemistry Project Lab Teaching Assistant

AS.020.153 General Biology Lab Teaching Assistant

BIMM 121 Microbiology Lab Teaching Assistant

Awards

• Morgan Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University
• Undergraduate Research Award, University of California San Diego
• Physical Sciences Research Award, University of California San Diego