Doctoral Student
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Emma Glass is a third-year PhD candidate in biomedical engineering at the University of Virginia. Previously, she attended William and Mary to earn her BSc in computational and applied mathematics and statistics with a focus in mathematical biology. During undergrad, she worked closely with Dr. Ravi Radhakrishnan, professor and chair of UPenn Bioengineering, to develop a physiologically based pharmacokinetic model for determining nanoparticle biodistribution. After matriculating to UVA and joining Dr. Jason Papin’s Computational Systems Biology Lab, she became interested in using computational methods in data science, machine learning, and bioinformatics to address questions related to bacterial functional metabolism. Specifically, she is interested in using computational approaches and genome-scale metabolic network models to identify novel antimicrobial compounds for targeting site-specific infection. Her graduate work has been funded by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) and an NIH T-32 training grant in systems and biomolecular data science.
Thursday, October 12, 2023
12:45 PM – 1:00 PM PDT