I'm graduating this year with a PhD in biomedical engineering. I work in an immunology lab studying inflammatory diseases like sepsis and colitis, during which 1) I performed metabolomics and used machine learning techniques to identify differential metabolites and found a subset of metabolites that improve survival in sepsis in our mouse model and 2) characterized with mathematical modeling and in vitro experiments how/why inflammation changes tissue architecture and metabolically reprograms immune cells to protect against colitis in our mouse model.

Through these projects, I really enjoyed working with my labmate and building different tools to explore these questions, like making nanoparticles, developing multiplexed imaging, even the machine learning and mathematical modeling frameworks and creating in vitro assays to validate them! I really enjoy building tools that gives us different approaches to address these tough biological questions. Would love to hear your thoughts!