Myrine Barreiro-Areval
Years in the program: August 2017 – December 2018
Mentors: Dr. Tamer Oraby, Dr. Maria Esteve-Gassent, and Dr. Teresa Feria-Arroyo
Title of Projects/Products:
- Barreiro-Arevalo*, Z. Mohamed, T. Oraby, M. Esteve-Gasent, and T. Feria-Arroyo. Ticks in Texas. Poster Presentation.73rd Annual Meeting of the Subtropical Agriculture and Environments Society. February 2018.
- Barreiro-Arevalo*, Z. Mohamed, T. Oraby, M. Esteve-Gasent, and T. Feria-Arroyo. Ticks in Texas. Oral Presentation. University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Engaged Scholar Symposium (ES2). April 2018.
Where I am now:
During my undergrad research experience with TACFSA I partook in a project entitled Ticks in Texas that focused primarily on statistical ecology with Drs. Tamer Oraby and Maria Esteve-Gassent. I also had the opportunity to travel to South Korea for a cultural exchange program. I have since graduated from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley with a Bachelor of Science in Biology with a concentration in Biological Sciences and a minor in Statistics with Magna Cum Laude honors and a Master of Science in Applied Statistics and Data Science, being the first of my cohort to graduate from with the degree. I taught undergraduate mathematics courses during my graduate studies and participated in two FDA sponsored internships: one at the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research and another at the National Center for Toxicology Research. My thesis was entitled Significant Gene Array Analysis and Cluster-Based Machine Learning for Disease Class Prediction. I worked briefly at the UTRGV Center for Advanced Manufacturing Innovation and Cyber Systems (CAMICS). I am now a second-year student in the Ph.D. of Mathematics and Statistics with Interdisciplinary Applications, working in the new Astrobiochemistry laboratory with Dr. Eloi Camprubi-Casas. My dissertation will focus primarily on the primitive inheritance mechanisms of prebiotic compartments and dynamical mathematical modeling.