Summary
A laboratory-intensive Undergraduate degree covering a broad range of biomedical components. For my thesis, I created an interactive Visual Basic animation for browsing and teaching metabolic networks. This work has since been patented on the advice of my supervisor and I am keen to advance the project in future research.
Awarded first class in:
Oncology
Cell Biology
Dissertation
Immunology
Neurobiology
Epidemiology
Laboratory work
Molecular Biology
Seminars and essays
Bacterial Pathogenicity
Infectious Disease and Health
Thesis:
An interactive browser to visualise metabolic networks.
Result
Upper second-class honours (2.1)
Summary
I was awarded a studentship funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. The holistic curriculum has prepared me for all aspects of research, from experimental design and grant proposals to statistical analysis, model fitting, presentation methods and scientific writing. My laboratory thesis involved: vector design, protein purification and kinesin motility assays. My computational thesis involved the signal processing of human actimetry data to determine physical activity and behaviour.
Modules
Biological Systems
Quantitative Biology
Microscopy and Imaging
Statistics for Data Analysis
Bioimaging and Array Technologies
Cellular Systems and Biomolecules
Numerical Methods in Biological Modelling
Warwick Interdisciplinary Transferable Skills
Mathematical Models of Biological Systems
Metabolic Pathways and Regulatory Networks
Technologies for the Study of Systems Biology
Dry Lab Thesis:
Determining circadian rythms using actimetry on a smart watch
Wet Lab Thesis:
Determining the speed of a mutant kinesin
Awards
BBSRC/MRC Scholarship (1 of 2 awarded)
Summary
Learnt to critique, design and conduct human population based research, gaining a comprehensive and thorough understanding of Bayesian and frequentist statistics and statistical communication methods. I gained further experience in the modelling by ordinary differential equations, Markov-chain methods and Monte-Carlo simulations.
Modules
Statistics
Clinical Trials
Data Management
Genetic Epidemiology
Communicable Disease
Psychiatric Epidemiology
Epidemiological Techniques
Environmental Epidemiology
Chronic Disease Epidemiology
Nutrition and Physical Epidemiology
Theses
The Descriptive Epidemiology of Phenylketonuria: A Systematic Review
The Association Between Pulmonary Function and Cardiovascular Disease: A Systematic Review
Main Thesis: Kidney Biomarkers and their Association with Cardiovascular Disease: Meta-analysis
Awards
Pfizer Studentship
Helping foreign students with their postgraduate applications for Oxbridge.
Starting December 2017. I will be working on LuCID (detecting lung cancer), InterCEPT (detecting colorectal cancer), STRATA (stratifying astma diagnoses) and PAN (detecting multiple cancers).
Summary
An independent project to build a web-app to track who is inside the building using a wall-mounted tablet. Staff can tap their icon to clock in/out and visitors can be added. HTML, CSS, JS, PHP.
Summary
An exploration of algorithms to map activity data from a smartwatch into circadian sleep/wake cycles. Matlab, Fourier analysis, signal processing, linear regression.
https://www.academia.edu/3533935/Quantifying_Activity_via_Actigraphy_an_Automated_Algorithm_with_Holistic_Application
Summary
Openclinica is an opensource electronic data capture system for clinical trials. I try to maintain a small blog of OpenClinica tricks to improve the fuctions.
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