Oscar Zhang
Los Angeles,CA
Summary
Skilled individual with passion to reach academic goals. Smart candidate develops strategies to bolster academic performance.
Passionate to learn from professional tasks.
To seek and maintain position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.
Overview
1
1
year of professional experience
Work History
Research Experiences
USC
09.2021 - 01.2022
- Conducted an 4-month long experiment to examine the effects of nitrate concentration in environment on giant kelp under thermal stress.
- Since there’s no clear testing on the influence of precise nitrate concentration variances on kelp's reaction to diverse temperatures until our experiment, we found the correlation between cell’s adjustment and response to those treatments based on the change of kelp gametophytes' biomass.
- Our experiment includes: Zoospore release and establishment of gametophyte cultures; Acclimation Period; Thermal Stress Period; and Recovery Period.
Research Experience
USC
01.2022 - 05.2022
- We wanted to determine the metabolic model of a newly found gene that is a SAR11 bacteria strain isolated from brackish water at Gulf of Mexico.
- We downloaded the genome sequence file from NCBT
- We used Prodigal to obtain hypothetical genes and "chop off" the start/stop codon from the genome sequence
- We used Hmmer and Biopython to apply Hidden Markov Model on predicting genes/proteins sequences
- We used hmmsearch and KOFam (a sub-database of KEGG) to find the metabolic genes in the genome.
- We used Cplex, Diamond, and then Carveme to merge a selected set of single-species models into a microbial community model
- We used COBRA to complete a flux balance analysis for our genome's metabolic model
- We used Escher to visualize the metabolic model as a heat map in the end.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Biophysics; Human Biology
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA05.2025
Skills
- Research experiences in courses' labs
- Basic programming skills
- Physics related problem-solving skills
- Biology related knowledge
- Organic chemistry skills
- Student Evaluation
Timeline
Research Experience
USC
01.2022 - 05.2022
Research Experiences
USC
09.2021 - 01.2022
Bachelor of Science - Biophysics; Human Biology
University of Southern California
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