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Conferences

Conferences attended

Conferences: List

Student Showcase Symposium (SSS) 2021

Presenter, April 2021

Presented my poster regarding the phototransduction components involved in the visual system of hard-bodied ticks, with a heatmap, and preliminary conclusions. The heatmap showed the number of matches that the transcriptomes, and whole-genome sequences had to the Phylogenetically Informed Annotation (PIA) workflow, which is the workflow we used to analyze these dataset with regards to 109 Light Interacting Toolkit (LIT) Genes. LIT Genes are genes that various organisms use to develop their eye structures, and they also allow for light-detection (Speiser et al., 2014). Overall, there were more matches for LIT Genes, in the whole-genome sequences, than in the transcriptomes. his may be due to the transcriptomes having less information than the whole-genome sequences. (Transcriptomes are a small portion of the RNA sequence of an organism, at a specific point in time. Whole-genome sequences, in contrast, span the entire protein content of the organism.)

Florida Undergraduate Research Conference (FURC) 2021

Presenter, Feb. 2021

In this poster presentation, I highlighted three genes that were involved in the phototransduction pathway, and which were also found in the transcriptomes, and whole-genome sequences of hard-bodied ticks. I also highlighted the importance of studying the visual system of ticks, discussed the research methodology, and preliminary results and conclusions. [Poster presentation]

Experimental Biology (EB) 2019

Attendee, April 2019

Attended two days of the Experimental Biology where I listened to lectures, went to professional development workshops, and met other attendees through networking events.

Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence (SURE) 2019

Attendee, April 2019

Interviewed some students that presented their posters at UCF's 2019 Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence, as part of an Introduction to Undergraduate Research course I took in the Spring semester 2019.

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