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I am a Bioinformatics PhD candidate at the University of Georgia. I bring deep expertise in omics analytical pipelines, with a particular strength in metagenomics and multi-omic integration. I'm interested in using computational biology to identify variants in highly conserved protein domains of gut bacteria that may influence disease through the gut-brain axis as well as projects involving the development of AI for rigorous statistical analyses in science and technology. Prior to beginning my graduate program, I worked as a researcher at the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention in the Office of Blood, Organ, & Other Tissue Safety and studied Cryptococcus transmission events in solid organ transplantations, which led to my interest in bioinformatics and computational biology. My thesis work in graduate school involves in-depth analyses of variants in the gut microbiome and potential implications for neurological diseases as well as a broad-scale metagenomics assessment of the potential of bioaerosolization of pathogenic bacteria from the water to the surrounding air in low-to-middle income countries.