A few labs I've worked in, from writing pipelines to bench chemistry.
Visiting Student Researcher
Working on a non-invasive way to characterize Richter's transformation, the often-fatal point where chronic lymphocytic leukemia turns into an aggressive lymphoma. Cell types shed DNA and RNA into the blood differently, so measuring cell-free DNA against cell-free RNA can separate the transformed clone from the leukemia it came from.
Visiting Student Researcher
Rebuilding a high-throughput single-cell DNA and antibody sequencing pipeline (DAb-seq v2) for leukemia research, so a patient's samples can be followed across diagnosis, remission, and relapse to study treatment response and resistance. I wrote a modular C++/Python toolchain that runs on Slurm-based HPC, about 10× faster than the old one.
Visiting Student Researcher
Made and tested peptide-based enzyme inhibitors for drug discovery, aiming at therapeutics for Staphylococcus aureus. I built the compounds end to end (Fmoc solid-phase synthesis from phage and mRNA-display hits, purification, NMR confirmation, enzymatic assays) and co-authored a peer-reviewed paper on antimalarial proteasome inhibitors.