Thea Nikolaou/Dr. Solomon - Week 7

 This week I spent more time at the clinical genomics lab working on my summer projects. Because the data analysis I was working on includes patient IDs which are protected information, I have to work on this analysis on the computers available in the lab. In the beginning of the week, I shared some preliminary results with Dr. Solomon who gave me some additional direction on how to continue this project and what my presentation next week and my poster and paper due in the next month should include. He was excited with the results and I am really happy that I was able to work on a project that will be helpful for the bioinformatics team and could be a part of the genomic data analysis pipeline in certain cases. I have also been brainstorming other ways the data from cBioPortal could be used. In the other project which included image analysis of H&E stained microscope slides by implementing a deep learning algorithm we ran into an issue with the need for GPU to run inference on the image data. On Tuesday, I uploaded the images of the WSIs but after one of the bioinformaticians tried to run inference, the issue was brought up. I was also able to write a simple python script to do some calculations using the inference output files but since these will not be available until GPU is available for this project, I will not be finding out if it actually works but I have shared it with the team and the feedback I got was positive so it is at least a start until they are able to attempt running the code. On Friday, I attended Dr. Prince's lecture on entrepreneurship and got some really good advice about some of his biggest takeaways from his time as a PhD student and also all of his experience being an inventor. The summer has flown by and I can't believe that we will be heading home in only a week! It has been so exciting to work with clinicians and attend different lectures and conferences that were happening throughout each week. 

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