About Me
I’m currently a junior at St. Olaf College, working towards a bachelors’ in Bioinformatics (individual major track). My academic pursuits reflect my interests in rare disease research, forensic science, and conservation ecology. I enjoy leveraging the power of data science in order to solve complex problems across disciplines.
Previous Projects
Lipid Droplet Counting in Tetrahymena Thermophila
The Lipid Lab at St. Olaf investigates factors affecting the formation of lipid droplets in the model organism Tetrahymena thermophila. To gather data, students in lab have manually counted lipid droplets. Each organism can have up to several hundred droplets, and each image from the microscope can have several organisms. I created a program, lipidcountr, that uses image processing to automate the counting of lipid droplets in these cells.
Talk: Quantification of Lipid Droplets in Tetrahymena thermophila at the 2023 Midwest Protozoology Conference in Galesburg, Illinois.
Impact of Mental Health Stigma on Outcomes in Pheochromocytoma
Pheochromocytoma and Paraganglioma are rare neuroendocrine tumors that are often misdiagnosed. In this research project, I surveyed patients who were diagnosed with this condition on their experiences navigating the healthcare system. It was presented at the 2022 HOSA International Leadership Conference in Nashville, Tennessee.
Autofilling the Standard Form 180
The GSA standard form 180 (SF180) is a form necessary for requesting military records from the National Archives per 36 CFR 1233.18(d). When requesting the records of several military personnel, the completion of a large quantity of forms is time consuming and error prone. While requesting records for the missing sailors of the U.S.S Turner, I wrote a simple python script that enables researchers to automatically fill a large number of these forms using a spreadsheet template.
For more examples of my work in statistics and data science, see the project tab.