Neuroscience · genetics · at the bench
I study how genes and environment show up in a nervous system: a year of Alzheimer’s research in C. elegans with Emory, six weeks in a Fragile X lab, and a gene-delivery proposal for the Space Station at 14.
In Tel Aviv, Feb–May 2027. Looking for a part-time biotech internship, 3–4 days a week.
Every helix needs two strands. Mine are science, the labs, proposals and data, and leadership, the teams I’ve built and led. Each glowing rung is a moment. Scroll to climb, or tap a rung to jump to it.
Four years in the Biomedical Sciences pathway, where the bench basics became habit: PCR, gels, restriction digests, bacterial transformation, sterile technique and lab safety.
I wrote, filmed and edited a brain-health PSA for teens on Alzheimer’s prevention, the same disease I was studying at the bench, and competed at the Georgia State Leadership Conference for Brain Health, Forensics, and Health Education.
I proposed testing mechanoporation, squeezing cells through a microfluidic channel to let DNA in, aboard the International Space Station, with a GFP readout to compare delivery against Earth controls. I was the only solo 14-year-old in the semifinal.
Thirty hours of agricultural recovery and meal service for displaced communities, and visits to October 7th memorial sites and victims’ families.
I started Walton’s chapter of a national nonprofit from nothing and grew it to more than 60 members, with three senior-living partners and about 100 makeovers for residents.
I led a six-person committee through supplies, schedule and communications for a three-day retreat: more than 60 Jewish teens across six states.
At Emory’s Jin Lab (Human Genetics) I rotated through six researchers’ benches across mouse, Drosophila, iPSC and organoid models. I assisted with mouse brain dissection and DNA isolation and sorted flies by phenotype.
With Emory’s Katz Lab I designed and ran a 2×2 study, glucose vs. control and 15 °C vs. 25 °C, on worms that secrete GFP-tagged human β-amyloid. I poured the plates, synchronized the worms, imaged them on confocal and epifluorescence scopes, and ran the statistics.
From February to May 2027 I live in Tel Aviv on the Young Judaea Year Course, and I have three to four days a week to give an early-stage biotech company.
What I bring on day one: sterile technique and media prep, plate pouring and bacterial culture, PCR, gels and restriction digests, C. elegans maintenance and synchronization, confocal and epifluorescence imaging, ImageJ quantification, and statistics (two-way ANOVA, Kruskal-Wallis).
B.S. in Neuroscience. Whatever I learn at a bench in Tel Aviv comes with me.
Pick a skill to see where I used it, or switch tabs.
I’m in Tel Aviv until May 2027. If your team could use a careful pair of hands three to four days a week from February, I’d love to hear from you.