About me
I’m a biologist and bioinformatician with expertise in plant immunity, comparative genomics, and computational protein methods. I did my Ph.D. in the Huffaker lab at UC San Diego where I worked on characterizing a maize anti-herbivory receptor, peptide hormones and their receptors, and metabolomic biosynthetic pathways. Currently, I am a SCINet post-doc with the USDA GrainGenes group, where I apply state-of-the-art ML and DL methods in protein structure prediction, protein language models and molecular docking to improve protein function annotation through prediction of protein phosphorylation, protein-protein interactions, and protein-ligand interactions. More information about my research, incluing a CV and a list of citations, can be found at the Research tab on the left.
