About Me

I’m a native of Austin, TX but spent my high school years in greater Orlando. I have been fascinated by the brain since a middle schooler and started at UF interested in a career in neuroscience. I began my undergrad research career in January 2022 in Dr. Nancy Padilla-Coreano’s lab where I started doing mouse behavior, tissue analysis, and literature review work. I was recommended to begin learning how to code and have since developed a strong understanding of biological data analysis in Python. My knowledge led me to collaborate on a project with Dr. Shreya Saxena of Yale developing a machine-learning based model to predict animal social behaviors from video recordings. I presented this work at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) in June 2023.

My programming experience earned me a National Science Foundation REU position in Dr. Noah Snyder-Mackler’s lab at Arizona State University during Summer 2023. Here, I analyzed age-associated changes in microglia in Rhesus Macaques using R. I later presented my work at ABRCMs in Phoenix in November 2023.

Eager to expand my knowledge of bioinformatics, I joined Dr. Paola Giusti-Rodriguez’s lab in January 2024. I have predominantly worked on data visualization of significant genes in IPSCs of human neurons such as volcano and bubble plots. I am currently working on my independent project “machine learning methods to analyze single-cell 3D genome data from mouse models of psychiatric copy number variants” with Dr. Giusti-Rodriguez.

I am an aspiring neuroscientist and am applying for the neuroscience PhD cycle to being in Fall 2025.