Luca Perney

Recent graduate looking for graduate schemes/lab roles.

Private tutoring June 2021 – Sep 2021, July 2022 – Sep 2022

• Tutoring multiple students (children and adults), including planning, and organising the lessons, homework, and answers in advance
• Taught English, Maths, and French 

• Summer internship as a technician in a production and quality team
• Collaborated with other technicians and engineers to perform quality tests and production tasks, as directed by the production manager

University College London Sep 2020 – June 2023

BSc in Biochemistry: First Class Honours

• Notable courses: Molecular Biology, Proteins, Cell Biology, Physical Chemistry, Business for Bioscience, Bioinformatics, Genetics, Microbiology, Computational and Systems Biology
• Metagenomic research project: Analysis of mouse gut microbiome in mice faeces 
  • Comparison of mice microbiota genera and phyla composition under either high-fat or normal diets
  • Practical lab work, including DNA extraction, amplification, and sequencing
  • Data analysis with R studio and Google colab, and cross-analysis with pre-existing datasets (such as the PDB and open data from other published scientific literature)
    • Further comparison of our generated mice data with published human microbiome data
    • Using DADA2 for sequencing analysis, including sequence filtering, truncation, and denoising
    • Analysis of several parameters such as alpha and beta diversity, and taxonomy (of microbes) 
  • Machine learning with data from next-generation sequencing
• Advanced investigative project (dissertation)
  • 7,500-word literature review on the structural effect of the SARS-CoV-2 omicron (BA.1) variant on antibody and viral efficacy
  • Generated and analysed protein structures of the spike to investigate the mutational effects