User:Msamdars

Mihir Samdarshi

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Contact Information

Snail Mail:

1 LMU Drive, MSB-5848
Los Angeles, CA 90045

email:

msamdars(at)lion.lmu(dot)edu

Education

Loyola Marymount University

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Degree: Bachelor's of Science

Major: Biology

Minor: Computer Science

Anticipated Graduation: December, 2019

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Related Courses

Biology	Computer Science
Molecular Biology of the Genome ¹ General Microbiology ¹ Urban Ecology ¹ Plant Biotechnology General Physiology Epidemiology Genetics Laboratory ¹ ¹ signifies that the course was a lab course or taken concurrently with a lab version of the course	Computer Programming Programming Lab Data Structures Algorithms Interaction Design Programming Languages

Research Experience

Undergraduate Research Assistant, LMU Bioinformatics and Biomathematics Group, Loyola Marymount University (September 2015 – Present) Advisors: Dr. Kam Dahlquist & Dr. John David Dionisio

GRNSight: Web app and service for visualizing models of gene regulatory networks. https://dondi.github.io/GRNsight/

• Currently the senior-most member of lab, in charge of supervising three other members and leading the major release initiative
• Combined knowledge of genetics and biology with computer science to create innovative visualization tool for small-scale gene regulatory networks
• Gained valuable experience working with Javascript, HTML5/CSS3, Python, Node.js, D3.js, Bootstrap, ReactJS, Jekyll, Mocha, Chai, GitHub, Linux, and Photoshop
• Worked on refactoring codebase, implementing test-driven development practice, and adding new functions
• Assisted with time-course experiments measuring yeast gene expression using DNA microarrays

REU Participant, Redox Biology Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (June 2018 – August 2018) Advisors: Dr. Jiri Adamec & Ryan Grove

Mathematical model of neuronal energy metabolism pathways affected in epilepsy.

• Used common computational/mathematical biology tools to create a mathematical model of energy metabolism in neurons and astrocytes
• Created and executed various wet lab experiments with C. elegans in order to validate the results of the mathematical model; used a thrashing assay to quantify and compare results between various trials with differing variables
• Gained valuable experience working with MATLAB, COPASI, Cell Designer, and various MATLAB modeling packages like Recon 3D.