MIT PRIMES is a free, year-long program, in which high school students work on individual and group research projects in mathematics, computer science or bioinformatics and computational biology and participate in reading groups under the guidance of academic mentors, usually graduate students or postdoctoral scholars. The Mirny lab is very proud of our Prime graduates and their accomplishments!
2023
Anna Du – Student, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Utilizing Machine Learning to Identify Time Asymmetry of DNA Loop Extrusion (mentors Dr. Aleksandra Galitsyna and Henrik Pinholt) (slides)
Eli Rybnikova – University of Toronto Mississauga
Exploration of Hi-C Patterns Through Computer Simulations (mentors Dr. Aleksandra Galitsyna and Henrik Pinholt) (slides)
2022
Neil Chowdhury – MIT, Founding Team, Transluce
A Mechanism of Formation for a Unique Compartment in the Silkworm Genome (mentor Sameer Abraham)
2019
Shiv Khandelwal – Vanderbilt, Business Analyst at McKinsey & Co
Genome-wide flame feature detection pipeline for Hi-C chromatin conformation maps (mentor Sameer Abraham) ( slides )
Jason Yang – MIT, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
The relationship between gene expression correlation and 3D genome organization (mentors Sameer Abraham and Martin Falk) ( slides )
Vishnu Emani – Bioengineering Student at Harvard University
The role of protein occupancies in DNA compartmentalization (mentors Sameer Abraham and Martin Falk) ( slides )
Kevin Edward Zhao – MIT
The role of protein occupancies in DNA compartmentalization (mentors Sameer Abraham and Martin Falk) ( slides )
2016
Laura Braverman
Protein determinants of chromosome domains (mentor Nezar Abdennur) ( slides )
Betsy Pu – Princeton, Software Engineer, SOOT
Chromatin states at boundary elements (mentor Nezar Abdennur) ( slides )
Krishna Suraj – Harvard, MBA Candidate at Harvard Business School
Emergent chromosome organization in interphase from loop extrusion (mentor Dr. Geoffrey Fudenberg) ( slides )
2014
Andrew Luo – MIT, Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong (HKU)
The impact of protein aggregates on the sub-diffusion of a DNA locus (mentors Geoffrey Fudenberg and Maxim Imakaev) ( slides )
Carolyn Lu – MIT, Engineer at Unknown Worlds Entertainment
oop extruding enzymes in interphase: Dynamic folding of chromatin domains (mentors Geoffrey Fudenberg and Maxim Imakaev) ( slides )
2013
Boryana Doyle – MIT, Stanford School of Medicine
Chromatin organization: from polymer loops to topological domains (mentors Geoffrey Fudenberg and Maxim Imakaev) ( slides )
Ashwin Murali – Founder, Entropy
Lineage-dependent properties of 16S ribosomal RNA nucleotide composition (mentors Geoffrey Fudenberg and Maxim Imakaev) ( slides )
Hao Shen – MIT, Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Ginkgo
The impact of gene order on evolution (mentor Anton Goloborodko) ( slides )
2011
Dash Elhauge – Brown, Virginia Tech
Modeling the role of cell fusion in cancer development (mentor Christopher McFarland) ( slides )
Andrew Kim – Harvard, Senior Data Scientist, J2 Health
Modeling the role of cell fusion in cancer development (mentor Christopher McFarland) ( slides )
Stephanie Palocz – Stanford, Software Engineer at Reboot
Segregation of Ring Polymers: What is the Importance of Entropy in the Bacterial Nucleus (mentors Geoffrey Fudenberg and Maxim Imakaev) ( slides )
Sylvia Hurlimann – Caltech, Harvard, Anthropic
The Structure of DNA in E. Coli (mentors Geoffrey Fudenberg and Maxim Imakaev) ( slides )
Dong-Gil Shin – MIT, Backend Developer Drund
Scaffold Assisted Chromosome Condensation: Molecular Dynamics Simulations (mentors Geoffrey Fudenberg and Maxim Imakaev) ( slides )
Campbell Hewett – Brown, MIT
Simulating Supercoiling in Prokaryotic DNA (mentors Geoffrey Fudenberg and Maxim Imakaev) ( slides , video for slide #12 )