Sergio Mares
Graduate Student, University of California - Berkeley
OK-LSAMP
Past Clubs/Organizations
LEADERSHIP AND CAMPUS INVOLVEMENT
Hispanic Student Association— President
Sigma Delta Pi - ΣΔΠ Spanish Honor Society— President 2019 - 2020
Informed and introduced the new members to the society and encouraged professional development with Spanish Department Faculty
Multicultural Affairs Committee—Committee Member 2019 - 2020
Allocated a total of $30,000 to various organization with a focus in increasing and fomenting culture on campus
Society for the Advancement of Chicano and 2018 - 2019
Native Americans in Science— Vice President
Lead and scheduled professional development meetings with a focus in science careers as well as research education.
Hispanic Student Association— Community Service Chairs 2018 - 2019 Communicated closely to communities about service opportunities in Stillwater, OK. Collaborated with 500+ students on a community service day.
Past Research
A Deep-Learning framework to determine the epigenetic signatures in heritability. Nilah Ioannidis and James Nunez at UC Berkeley
We use a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) that can capture the complex relation between CpG methylation and heritability. I hypothesize that a combination of convolutional and fully connected components can elucidate genetic and epigenetic features that establish epigenetic inheritance. Specifically, I predict that our results will support a model that heritability is not predictable solely on CpG Islands, CG content or CpG methylations in human gene promoters. Our novel approach will determine the complex relationship between CpG methylation and heritability to elucidate features that establish epigenetic memory.
Oklahoma State University - Department of Microbiology Patrauchan Lab
Evolutionary studies in a calcium-regulated-Protein
involved on infection virulence in Pseudomonas.
Skills: Bioinformatics, 3D-Protein Structure Prediction, and DNA extraction
University of Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras - Department of Computer Science
Ortiz -Zuazaga May 2020 – August 2020 Optimization of the ANOVA approach for Metagenomic
assembly of differential metagenomic data.
Skills: RNA-Seq Assembly data processing, Python, Bash, and Github.
University of California - Berkeley Department of Division of Cell and Developmental Biology
Welch Lab
Focus on the effects of intracellular
pathogens in the cytoskeleton in mammalian cells.
Skills: Live-cell Imaging, protein truncations, and cloning
MY PERSONAL INTERESTS
Deep learning, cancer, predictive models
MY MENTORING INTERESTS
I am available to mentor in the following ways
Alumni Recruitment, Attend Conferences
My areas of expertise include
Grad School Process, Interviewing, Research Abstracts, Research Presentation, Resume/CV
MY CONTACT INFORMATION