Internships

Students participate in an enriching 16-week internship with experts at Georgetown University or at one of the many bioinformatics, biomedical and biotechnology institutions in the Washington, D.C., area, such as:

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Internship Presentations

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Summer 2022

Predicting novel proteins by exon shuffling using human mRNA
Kurt Denning
Mentors: Dr. CR Vinayaka, Georgetown University and Nagarajan Pattabiraman, MolBoxLLC
August 23rd, 2022 at 4:00pm

Improvement of glycan structure inference from glycan images using deep-learning-based object detection
Michelle Vesser

Mentor: Dr. Nathan Edwards, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University
August 23rd, 2022 at 3:40pm

Kallisto Isoform-Level Analysis of Platelet Transcript Data: A rapid, scalable RNA-Seq Workflow
Jacob Youkilis

Mentor: Dr. Rasika Mathias, Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
August 23rd, 2022 at 3:20pm

Predictive modeling of drug induced toxicology via QSAR analysis of SEND datasets
Rodney Moore Jr.

Mentor: Dr. Kevin Snyder U. S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Office of New Drugs
August 23rd, 2022 at 3:00pm

LIME, A High-Throughput Metabolite Annotation Tool
Bowen Yang

Mentors: Dr. Tytus Mak, Mass Spectrometry Data Center, National Institute of Standards and Technology; and Dr. Evagelia C Laiakis, Department of Oncology, Georgetown University Medical Center
August 23rd, 2022 at 2:40pm

Analysis of the metabolomic profile in serum of irradiated nonhuman primates treated with BIO 300-1, a radiation countermeasure
Zihao Zhang

Mentor: Dr. Amrita Cheema, Professor of Oncology/ Associate Director: Center for Metabolomic Studies, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University
Date/Time: August 23rd, 2022 at 2:20pm

Gene Expression Associated with Acute myeloid leukemia using Gene Enrichment Analysis (GSEA)
Yohana Alemseged

Mentors: Dr. Laura Harris, Harris Interdisciplinary Research
August 23rd, 2022 at 2:00pm

Non-Coding Transcriptomic and Epigenetic Changes Implicated in Ovarian Cancer Platinum Chemoresistance
Arun Krishnaraj

Mentors: Dr. Sreejith Nair, Department of Oncology – Georgetown University Medical Center; Dr. Matthew McCoy, Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics (ICBI) – Georgetown University Medical Center
August 23rd, 2022 at 1:40pm

Generation of computational pipeline to assess the phase separation potential of oncogenic fusion proteins
Teya Dragovic

Mentors: Dr. Sreejith Nair, Department of Oncology – Georgetown University Medical Center; Dr. Matthew McCoy, Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics (ICBI) – Georgetown University Medical Center
August 23rd, 2022 at 1:20pm

Integration of Gene Dependency Scores and scRNA-Seq Data Reveals ACTN1 and CD44 as Potential Targets in Glioblastoma
Madison Sharp

Mentor: Dr. Nagi Ayad, Department of Oncology, Georgetown University Medical Center Georgetown University Medical Center
August 23rd, 2022 at 1:00pm

Spring 2022

Systems Analysis of Essential Autism Genes in Early Mammalian Development
Josephine Millard

Mentors: Dr. Sharmila Basu, MindSpec, Inc.; and Dr. Karen Ross, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University.
May 3rd, 2022 at 12:00pm

Cell-specific SNV discovery using barcode-stratified scRNA-Seq data
Ni Gao

Mentors: Dr. Nathan Edwards, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University.
May 3rd, 2022 at 12:00pm

Developing a reproducible computational pipeline for detecting lncRNA based on RNA-seq data
Minghan Wu

Mentors: Dr. Matthew McCoy, Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics (ICBI ) and Department of Oncology, Georgetown University Medical Center; and Dr. Sreejith Nair, Oncology Academic Department, SOC, Georgetown University.
May 3rd, 2022 at 12:00pm

Fall 2021

Establish a knowledge graph of tumor immunity-related probiotics and automatically predict potential new drugs
Zhichen Gao

Mentor: Yongliang Yang (Doctoral Supervisor and Deputy Dean of the School of Life Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology.)
December 7, 2021 at 8am

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