Faculty, Staff, & Students

10th grade at Freedom High School

Project: Effects of hypoxia on the endothelium

Mentors: Dr. Ribeiro and Dr. Walker

I am a fourth-year undergraduate student at the University of Florida with a major in Biology and minors in Disabilities in Society and Health Disparities in Society. I currently work with Dr. Brunson on a systematic review analyzing previous medical literature to determine how patient similarity–based individualized modeling is conducted using retrospective data. I plan to attend medical school in Fall 2022 to further my passion for medicine and healthcare.

10th grade at Lake Highland Preparatory 

Project: Shear stress effects on the endothelium

Mentors: Dr. Ribeiro and Dr. Walker

I am a third-year Mathematics and Economics double major at the University of Florida, with a mathematical background in topological data analysis. I am working with Dr. Brunson on an analysis of the structure and function of glomerular capillaries. Using computational methods, we aim to characterize the three-dimensional structure of the glomerular capillary network, with the objective of providing useful insight into glomerular function.

I am a third-year Statistics major and Women’s Studies minor at UF. I have been working on a project to create an agent-based model of bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis with Dr. Sordo Vieira and Dr. Wheeler. It is our hope with this model to be able to better understand the mechanisms which induce fibrosis in the lungs. My interest in computational modeling began in high school after I participated in an internship with the Integrated Mathematical Oncology department at Moffitt Cancer Center. There I worked on differential equations to model dormancy in multiple myeloma with Dr. Miller and Dr. Basanta. Outside of research, I volunteer in the Pediatric Cardiac ICU and the Pediatric ICU at Shands Children’s Hospital through a student organization called Dream Team and I also work with the Alachua County Victim Services and Rape Crisis Center as a helpline volunteer.

I am an 11th grader at Land O’ Lakes High School, where I am a part of the IB programme. I currently work with Dr. Moore in researching how mathematical equations and computer science can be used to model diseases such as sarcoidosis. With these models, we hope to gain a better understanding of the dynamics of diseases within patients. I plan to pursue a pre-med path after graduating high school to integrate my passion for medicine and helping people into a career.

I am a second-year undergraduate student at the University of Florida double majoring in Microbiology and Cell Sciences, Data Science in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. I currently work with Dr. Ribeiro to investigate gene regulation and expression in lung-based epithelial cells in response to COVID-19 to develop a Boolean network model. This model will tie together various signaling pathways of inflammation response to stochastically understand the biological effects of the novel coronavirus.

I am an 11th grader at Orlando Science High School. Currently, I am working with Dr. Moore on a project on a disease known as Sarcoidosis for which we will be creating a mathematical model to better understand the illness in patients. After high school, I plan on going into medicine to pursue my career and follow my passion of helping others. 

I graduated from the University of Florida with a BS in Mathematics and plan to attend medical school in Fall 2023. I am working with Dr. Brunson on a study of the structure and function of glomerular capillaries using network and topological analysis.

I am a third-year Statistics and Mathematics major and Computer Science minor at UF. I am working with Dr. Brunson on a project that compares conventional statistical learning models with individualized cohort models on clinical diagnosis. I plan to attend graduate school in biostatistics or data science, and I wish to work with healthcare data science in the future.