Cancer research at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
In junior year of high school, I was lucky enough to be a research assistant at the Broad Institute. I worked in Aviv Regev's lab on novel methods in ribosome profiling, where two-thirds of my time was spent in a wet lab under the mentorship of Dr. Tamara Ouspenskaia, while the other third was spent learning & using a pipeline of command-line tools. This was my very first exposure to Terminal & Bash!
Working at the Broad was such a privilege. I often took elevators to work with CRISPR greats like Feng Zheng. As the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing protocol was rather new in 2017, this was the most exciting thing that could happen to my little biotech brain.
As a culmination of my work, I presented my research in a scientific symposium at the Broad Institute and I wrote a 15-pg academic paper for the Siemens Competition.
Working at the Broad was such a privilege. I often took elevators to work with CRISPR greats like Feng Zheng. As the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing protocol was rather new in 2017, this was the most exciting thing that could happen to my little biotech brain.
As a culmination of my work, I presented my research in a scientific symposium at the Broad Institute and I wrote a 15-pg academic paper for the Siemens Competition.
The final work. As I was already proficient in Adobe Illustrator, that is what I made this poster in. Dr. Ouspenskaia was so impressed that she asked if I could make visualizations for her research paper submission too!