“I am interested in studying how neural circuits give rise to behaviors seen in neuropsychiatric disorders utilizing systems neuroscience approaches. I am also interested in exploring molecular techniques to advance our knowledge of the relationship between these disorders and the genome and epigenome.”

“I’m interested in doing research in cell biology, specifically in signaling pathways and cellular organization. I’m fascinated by organellar interactions and deciphering how this interplay along with extracellular signals shape cells in different pathologies.”

“I am interested in exploring multiple different types of research including structural biology, neurobiology, and metabolism. I want to be a part of research that focus on the dynamic interactions within the body and relate to overall human and environmental health.”

“Machine learning and deep learning have opened the door to new approaches in personalized medicine, including immunotherapy, drug design, and gene editing. I am interested in utilizing machine learning to help create personalized cancer treatments for patients, either through personalized drug combinations or vaccines, and predict tumor responses to these treatments. With these novel methodologies, I hope to help medicine progress towards the inevitable future model of individualized care and treatment.”

“I am interested in exploring how host immune systems and infectious agents affect one another and how these interactions impact disease outcomes. Some questions that interest me include how immune responses to pathogens can increase symptoms or change disease outcomes, how pathogens can take advantage of altered/compromised immunity, and how the combined variability of pathogen populations and human immunity can cause variable disease states. In particular, I am interested in bacteria in the respiratory and/or gastrointestinal systems.”

“I’m interested in using artificial neural networks (ANNs) to model systems neuroscience circuits. This approach can accurately model systems neuroscience measurements compared to traditional models. And we can leverage explain-ability tools of ANNs to investigate how the ANN recreates the neural measurements, and its responses to perturbations. By bridging the connection between systems circuits and ANNs, I hope to develop more accurate ANNs, and use it as in-silico testbed for clinical neuroscience.”

“I am very interested in all aspects of the microbiome: microbial ecology and the establishment of microbial niches within a complex system (why are these microbes where they are?), the functionality of the microbiome in terms of metabolites (what are these microbes doing here?), the interaction between the microbiome and the immune system (how is the microbiome established and maintained?), and how the microbiome influences health and disease (how does the microbiome interact with other systems and/or respond to insults/exposures?)”

“I am interested in mechanisms that underlie tumor growth, progression, and metastasis. I am fascinated by topics such as meiotic and mitotic recombination, gene regulation, chromatin biology, and cell polarity regulation. I am also interested in the regulation of tumorigenesis and generalized drug discovery.”

“I am most interested in investigating the cellular and molecular mechanisms related to neurodegenerative diseases and aging, specifically in Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. I hope to broadly contribute to the questions of how AD develops and how we can treat/prevent its onset.”

“I hope to elucidate specific neural pathways underlying drug dependence and developing potential pharmacological targets for alleviating dependence, withdrawal, relapse from drugs.”