I am a second-year student at UCLA majoring in Computational and Systems Biology. I have also joined the Meyer Lab in the Department of Bioengineering. The Meyer Lab focuses on using computational methods to explore cell communication. Specifically, they explore how the cells within the immune system communicate with each other to gain a better understanding of how to either solve a health problem or prevent it from happening overall by better predicting how the system will react if something breaks or if changes within these cells can potentially improve how they react to disease or cancers.
I work closely with my lab mentor, Andrew Ramirez, on his project where he is aiming to develop a computational technique that will allow researchers to accomplish single-cell analysis for multimodal studies. This will result in researchers having the ability to keep track of many cell populations and their varying properties without the constraints of current computational techniques.
I would like to thank Dr. Aaron Meyer, Andrew Ramirez, and the rest of the Meyer Lab for their mentorship and support as well as the CARE Fellows program for this opportunity.