Conferences
A list of the local conferences and research days I have attended as a student at University of Florida and the University of Central Florida.
PHHP Days, 2024
Attendee, April 2024
Attended the PHHP Days two-day event where I learned about research labs within the college in environmental health, socialized with peers from the PHHP program, and listened to a fireside chat from Oladele A. Ogunseitan, PhD regarding one health. I also engaged with student presenters and their posters.
ICBR Research Days, 2024
Attendee, April 2024
Attended the ICBR Research Days where I learned about how ICBR supports researchers in veterinary medicine.
Emerging Pathogen Institute Research Day, 2024
Attendee, March 2024
Attended the EPI Research Day where I learned about different organizations within UF that are partnered with EPI or whose research/services are used by researchers (such as the HiPerGator supercomputer). I also engaged with other graduate students whose research encompassed the areas of infectious diseases, HIV, microbiology, IFAS/Agriculture.
AI Days, 2023
Attendee, October 2023
Attended two days of Artificial Intelligence talks at the University of Florida where I learned about the importance of using AI ethically in education, and the intersection of AI in different fields (such as chemistry for protein modeling).
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.