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
