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:

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), including the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Center for Biomedical Informatics & Information Technology (CBIIT), and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
The J. Craig Venter Institute (formerly The Institute for Genomic Research, TIGR)
Children’s National Hospital
Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology (CARB)
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Local biotechnology firms

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Internship Presentations

Read about our students’ research accomplishments.

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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