Sid Nair
Mary Gates Research Scholar
Winter 2023
Major: Microbiology
Mentor: Alison Paquette, Pediatrics
Project
Comparative Transcriptomic Assessment of Placental Cell Models
This project serves to characterize different placental cell lines by creating a unified dataset from publicly available data. Using this data, we compare gene expression to understand the accordance between placental cell lines and placental tissue samples.
What I learned
Throughout this project one of the biggest things I have learned is how to program and conduct statistical analysis. Along with that I have learned how to utilize scientific literature to aid my own understanding which has helped me in this project. Finally I have learned how much collaboration is needed in order to complete this project. I am very thankful to Dr.Alison Paquette and Dr. Samantha Lapehn for the help I have received in searching for new publicly available datasets as well as helping in the overall data analysis.
Advice for future applicants
I would say to definitely start planning out an outline for our essay as soon as possible. I think another thing that I have learned is to emphasize your role in the project and the specific things you have recently done as part of it. I also would try to see if there is anything tangible that you can use to show your current progress in the project.
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