Internship

Students will participate in an enriching 16-week internship with bioinformatics experts at Georgetown University or bioinformatics, biomedical and biotechnology institutions in the Washington DC area, including:

National Institute of Health (NIH), such as NCI, CBIIT, & NCBI
The J Craig Venter Institute (formerly TIGR)
Children’s National Medical Center
Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology (CARB)
National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Local biotechnology companies

Documents & Forms

Internship Introduction

(Revised 1/16/2018)

Internship Introduction

Internship Guidelines

(Under revision)

Internship Guidelines

Internship Proposal Form

Internship Mentor Evaluation Form

Mentor Evaluation Form

Internship Presentations

Fall 2020

Analysis of drug affected clusters in a multi-PTM correlation network

Churan Huang Mentor: Dr. Karen Ross, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center. D…

Summer 2020

Shortest-Path Network Analysis of PTM Site Changes in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Yu Lin Mentor: Dr. Karen Ross, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center. Date/Ti…

Identifying Prospective Markers for Thyroid Status Using a Differential Gene Expression Analysis Workflow

Peter Chang Mentor: Drs. Karen Ross and Mark Danielsen, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University Me…

Extracting Transitions from GPTwiki Glycopeptide Database

Yujian Long Mentor: Dr. Nathan Edwards, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center. …

Glycan Structure Extraction from Scientific Literature

Nhat Duong Mentor: Dr. Nathan Edwards, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center. …

Transcription Factor Variant Mapping

Jiayu Fu Mentor: Dr. Matthew McCoy, Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics, Department of Oncology and Department of Biostatistics, Bioinfo…

Enrichment of Variant Information for the Variant Standardization and Annotation Pipeline

Christina Coppola Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Lee, Bioinformatics Applications Development Center (BADC) within the National Cancer Institute’s Freder…

Predicting Resistance to Bcl2 antagonists using an In-Silico Functional Assay

Shannon Cosgrove Mentor: Dr. Matthew McCoy, Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics, Department of Oncology and Department of Biostatistics,…

Analysis of PySam Versioning Changes

Patrick Chen Mentor: Dr. Nathan Edwards, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center. …

Orthlog Inference using Multiple-Sequence Alignment

Zekai Ding Mentor: Dr. Nathan Edwards, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center. …

Ontological Enumeration of SARS-CoV-2 Proteoforms

Ying Cheng Mentor: Dr. Darren Natale, Protein Information Resource, Georgetown University Medical Center. Date/Time: August 25, 2020 at 5pm …

Analysis of metabolomics data from radiation in nonhuman primate serum

Samantha Shen Mentors: Dr. Amrita Cheema, Department of Oncology and Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Metabolomics Shared Resou…

Metagenomic Analysis of the Astronaut Microbiome

Zelaikha Yosufzai Mentors: Drs. Crystal Jaing and Michael Morrison, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Genomics Group. Date/Time: August 2…

Electrophysiological Changes in Cortical-Striatal Synaptic Function in Mice with Ephrin-A5 Gene Deletions

Mark Gabriel Mentor: Dr. Lawrence Kromer, Department of Neuroscience, Georgetown University. Date/Time: June 26, 2020 at 3pm Abstract: Unde…

Summer 2019

Using multiplex imaging to understand spatial heterogeneity in breast cancer

Yingqi Li Mentors: Dr. Simina Boca, Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics, Department of Oncology and Department of Biostatistics, B…

Network Analysis to Identify Key Proteins and Pathways Targeted During Herpesvirus Infection

Zachary S. Wallace Mentor: Dr. Richard H. Scheuermann, Department of Bioinformatics, J. Craig Venter Institute Date/Time: August 27, 2019…

Epigenetic control of CD4 expression in African green monkeys

Sanjana Shah Mentor: Dr. Jason Brenchley, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health Date/Time:…

Increasing the diagnostic yield of an autoinflammatory disease cohort by copy number variant analysis

Brynja Matthíasardóttir Mentor: Dr. Ivona Aksentijevich, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health Date/…

Comparison of Phylogenetic and Phenetic Clustering

Lorena Sandoval Mentor: Dr. Terry Hyslop, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University Date/Time: August 27, 2019 at 2p…

Molecular profiling breast cancer recurrence: a meta-analysis

Shruti Gautam Mentors: Dr. Robert Clarke, Department of Oncology, Georgetown University; Lu Jin, Department of Oncology, Georgetown Universi…

Curation of clinical trials for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD)

Bin Hai Mentor: Dr. Simina Boca, Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics, Department of Oncology and Department of Biostatistics,…

Predictive modeling of brain cancer outcomes based on molecular profiling data

Rebecca Fuchs Mentor: Dr. Yuriy Gusev, Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics, Department of Oncology, Georgetown University Date/T…

Improved retention-time estimation for glycopeptide extracted-ion chromatograms

Yixin Wu Mentor: Dr. Nathan Edwards, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University Date/Time: …

RNA-Editing in Thyroid Cancer

Yonghyun Kwon Mentor: Dr. Anelia Horvath, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine, George Washington University Date/Time: May …

Spring 2019

Emergence of Known and Novel Healthcare-Associated Pathogens in the Gut Microbiome after Antibiotic Treatment

Lacy Walker Mentor: Dr. Zhihua Li, The Food and Drug Administration (CDER/OMPT/CDER/OTS/OCP/DARS) Date/Time: May 13, 2019 at 1:30pm Loca…

Indeed 2.0

Kian Ghaffari Mentor: Dr. Habtom Ressom, Department of Oncology, Georgetown University Medical Center Date/Time: May 13, 2019 at 1:30pm …

Summer 2018

Designing a Framework for a MS/MS Library to be Utilized for Compound Identification

Presenter: Meth Jayatilake
Mentor: Dr. Amrita Cheema, Department of Oncology and Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology; Director of Metabolomics Shared Resource, Georgetown University Medical Center.
Location: August 28, 2018, 2:00pm, Room 1300, Harris Building

Semantic Glycan Data Modelling using Semantic MediaWiki

Presenter: Xuewei Chen.
Mentor: Dr. Nathan Edwards, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University.
Location: August 28, 2018, 2:00pm, Room 1300, Harris Building

Glycan structure parsing, alignment, and visualization

Presenter: Wenjin Zhang
Mentor: Dr. Nathan Edwards, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University.
Location: August 28, 2018, 2:00pm, Room 1300, Harris Building

R Shiny App for Comparing Quantified RNA Expression Datasets

Presenter: Qingyuan Ma
Mentor: Dr. Matthew McCoy, Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics, Department of Oncology and Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Biomathematics, Georgetown University.
Location: August 28, 2018, 2:00pm, Room 1300, Harris Building

Optimization and Complementing of Proteomic Consistency Metrics Reporting Pipeline

Presenter: Jiahao Huang
Mentor: Dr. Shaojun Tang, Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics, Georgetown University.
Location: August 28, 2018, 2:00pm, Room 1300, Harris Building

Bioinformatic software development for analysis of admixed populations

Presenter: Guangchuan Ji
Mentor: Dr. Simina Boca, Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics, Department of Oncology and Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Biomathematics, Georgetown University.
Location: August 28, 2018, 2:00pm, Room 1300, Harris Building

Targeted RNASeq Analysis of Fanconi Anemia Patients

Presenter: Vibhish Raghuraman.
Mentor: Dr. Settara Chandrasekharappa, National Institutes of Health.
Location: August 28, 2018, 2:00pm, Room 1300, Harris Building

Enriched miRNA-mRNA pair pathways in hepatocellular carcinoma for patients of different racial backgrounds

Presenter: Amber Alley
Mentor: Dr. Habtom Ressom, Department of Oncology, Georgetown University.
Location: August 28, 2018, 2:00pm, Room 1300, Harris Building

Designing and Implementing a RedCap Database for Clinical Breast Cancer Data

Presenter: Latifat Braimah
Mentor: Dr. Deborah Berry, Histopathology and Tissue Shared Resource, Georgetown University.
Location: August 29, 2017, 2:30pm, Room 341, Basic Science

Summer 2017

A Comprehensive Database for Compound Property Prediction Using Deep Learning Technique

Bioinformatics internship presentation by Ying Dong.
Mentor: Dr. Xiaohua Zhang, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
August 29, 2017, 2:30pm, Room 341, Basic Science

Metatranscriptomic annotation of oral microbial population from tissues with root caries

Bioinformatics internship presentation by Luis G. Rivera-García.
Mentor: Dr. Matthew D. McCoy, Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics, Department of Oncology, Georgetown University.
August 29, 2017, 2:30pm, Room 341, Basic Science

Visualization and automated reporting of proteomic consistency metrics

Bioinformatics internship presentation by Yi Bai.
Mentor: Dr. Simina Boca, Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics, Department of Oncology and Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Biomathematics, Georgetown University.
August 29, 2017, 2:30pm, Room 341, Basic Science

ESTABLISHING GLYCAN ONTOLOGY – ALGORITHMS FOR GLYCAN COMPARISON AND VISUALIZATION

Bioinformatics internship presentation by Avery Wang.
Mentor: Dr. Nathan Edwards, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University.
August 29, 2017, 2:30pm, Room 341, Basic Science

Data-Mining of Oncogenomic Datasets

Bioinformatics internship presentation by Anna Abaimova.
Mentor: Dr. Bassem Haddad, Department of Oncology, Georgetown University.
August 29, 2017, 2:30pm, Room 341, Basic Science

Bioinformatics Analysis of Tumor Infiltrating Immune Cell Subsets in Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Bioinformatics internship presentation by Ushna Ahmad.
Mentor: Dr. Yuriy Gusev, Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics, Department of Oncology, Georgetown University.
August 29, 2017, 2:30pm, Room 341, Basic Science

Design, extraction, and dashboard creation of an expandable recruitment data mart for diabetes clinical trials.

Bioinformatics internship presentation by Ariel Roane.
Mentor: Dr. Ian M. Brooks, MedStar Health Research Institute.
August 29, 2017, 2:30pm, Room 341, Basic Science

Development of OPRMA, an online tool to analyze RNA – protein interactions and RNA modifications

Bioinformatics internship presentation by Zhenzhi Li.
Mentor: Dr. Shaojun Tang, Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics, Georgetown University.
August 29, 2017, 2:30pm, Room 341, Basic Science

Spring 2017

Development of a python program for VCF file analysis in a metastatic melanoma study

Bioinformatics internship presentation by Muzi Li.
Mentor: Dr. Shaojun Tang, Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics, Georgetown University.
May 12th, 2017, 2:00pm, Room 1202, Harris Building.

Curation Workflow Development for SkateBase: A Resource for Little Skate Genome Annotation

Bioinformatics internship presentation by Sara Robinson.
Mentor: Dr. Karen Ross, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University.
May 12th, 2017, 2:00pm, Room 1202, Harris Building

Summer 2016

Replacing Pedigree Error Analysis, Using Phased Linked Reads to Identify False Genotypes

Bioinformatics internship presentation by Zhezhen Wang.
Mentors: Dr. Justin Zook, NIST and Dr. Nathan Edwards, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University.
August 30th, 2016, 2:00pm, Room 1300, Harris Building.

ChIP-Seq data analysis pipeline development in a breast cancer study

Bioinformatics internship presentation by Nan Hu.
Mentors: Dr. Robert Clarke and Lu Jin, Department of Oncology and Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University.
August 30th, 2016, 2:00pm, Room 1300, Harris Building.

Approaches for Annotation of Endogenous Retrovirus Elements

Bioinformatics internship presentation by Olumuyiwa Daramola.
Mentor: Dr. Arifa Khan, CBER, U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
August 30th, 2016, 2:00pm, Room 1300, Harris Building.

Data Migration from the Legacy Familial Cancer Registry (FCR) Database to the New REDCap Database System

Bioinformatics internship presentation by Mustafa Albahrani.
Mentor: Erin Carney, Nontherapeutic Subject Registry, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University.
August 30th, 2016, 2:00pm, Room 1300, Harris Building.

Application of RNA-sequencing for characterization of hepatocellular carcinoma

Bioinformatics internship presentation by Maedeh Mohammadnetaj.
Mentor: Dr. Habtom Ressom, Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University.
August 30th, 2016, 2:00pm, Room 1300, Harris Building.

Optimization of a SWATH data acquisition method on a Q-Exactive MS for label-free, global proteomics

Bioinformatics internship presentation by Dave Mitchel.
Mentors: Drs. Brian L. Hood, Thomas P. Conrads, and Nicholas W. Bateman; DOD Gynecologic Cancer Center of Excellence, Women’s Health Integrated Research Center and Inova Schar Cancer Institute, Inova Center for Personalized Health.
August 30th, 2016, 2:00pm, Room 1300, Harris Building.

Identification and characterization of FANCA and FANCD2 deletion variants from ten Fanconi Anemia patients and a R shiny application to display curated data from FANCD1/FANCD2 – PARP inhibitors research articles

Bioinformatics internship presentation by Apoorva Kulkarni.
Mentor: Dr. Settara Chandrasekharappa, NHGRI/NIH.
August 30th, 2016, 2:00pm, Room 1300, Harris Building.

Rare Variants Association Study for inherited retinal diseases via Exome Sequencing

Bioinformatics internship presentation by Jiayao Wang.
Mentor: Rinki Ratnapryia, Ph.D. NIH/NEI Neurobiology Neurodegeneration & Repair Laboratory.
August 30th, 2016, 2:00pm, Room 1300, Harris Building.

Development of a Python Program for De-identification of Breast Cancer Patient Data

Bioinformatics internship presentation by Abrar Albahrani.
Mentors: Dr. Deborah Berry and Krysta Chaldekas, Histopathology & Tissue Shared Resource, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University.
August 30th, 2016, 2:00pm, Room 1300, Harris Building.

Searching For Unique Relationships Between Human Genetic Diseases Based Upon Disease-Associated SNPs in Protein Features

Bioinformatics internship presentation by Seth Commichaux.
Mentor: Dr. Karen Ross, Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University.
August 26th, 2016, 2:00pm, Room 1202, Harris Building.

Manual Review of Text-Mining Results for Accuracy and Incidences of PTM Cross-Talk

Bioinformatics internship presentation by Megan Yung.
Mentor: Dr. Karen Ross, Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University.
August 26th, 2016, 2:00pm, Room 1202, Harris Building.

Integrating Clinical Breast Cancer Data into a Longitudinal REDCap Project Database

Bioinformatics internship presentation by Gaelle Sop-Kamga.
Mentors: Dr. Deborah Berry and Krysta Chaldekas, Histopathology & Tissue Shared Resource, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University.
July 25th, 2016, 1:00pm, Room 1202, Harris Building.

Spring 2016

Variant analysis of LY6 genes in Breast and Ovarian cancer

Bioinformatics internship presentation by Midrar Al Hossiny.
Mentors: Dr. Geeta Upadhyay, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics, Department of Oncology, Georgetown University; and Dr. Yuriy Gusev, Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics, Department of Oncology, Georgetown University.
May 13th, 2016, 10:00am, Room 1300, Harris Building.

Indirect Observation of Single Nucleotide Variants in Proteomics Data

Bioinformatics internship presentation by Bixuan Wang.
Mentor: Dr. Nathan Edwards, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University.
May 13th, 2016, 10:00am, Room 1300, Harris Building.

Metabolic Biomarkers for Type I Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Adolescents

Bioinformatics internship presentation by Alexander Wong.
Mentor: Dr. Simina Boca, Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics, Department of Oncology, Georgetown University.
May 13th, 2016, 10:00am, Room 1300, Harris Building.

Graphical User Interface for Analyzing Optomotor Response in Mice

Bioinformatics internship presentation by Walid Chatila.
Mentor: Dr. Tudor C. Badea, NEI (NIH).
May 13th, 2016, 10:00am, Room 1300, Harris Building.

OpID: Opportunistic Infections mobile application for immunocompromised patients

Bioinformatics internship presentation by Mohammad Shahbaz Khan.
Mentor: Dr. Krystyna Helena Szymczyk, Bioinformatics Scientist, NIAID (NIH).
April 29th, 2016, 2:00pm, Room 1202, Harris Building.

Fall 2016

Small Molecule Metabolites as Predictive Biomarkers for Cardiovascular Risk of Exposure to 16O Radiation

Bioinformatics internship presentation by Khyati Mehta.
Mentor: Dr. Amrita Cheema, Department of Oncology and Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology; Co-Director of Proteomics and Metabolomics Shared Resource, Georgetown University Medical Center.
December 14th, 2016, 2:00pm, Room 341, Basic Science.

Informatics View of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Bioinformatics internship presentation by Christopher Greco.
Mentor: Dr. Sona Vasudevan, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University.
December 14th, 2016, 2:00pm, Room 341, Basic Science.

The relationship between autism spectrum disorder and calcium signaling

Bioinformatics internship presentation by Leena Nezamuldeen.
Mentor: Dr. Karen Ross, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University.
December 14th, 2016, 2:00pm, Room 341, Basic Science.