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EGR1 and the ATP2B2 Promoter! After months of waiting my paper was finally published! Click the picture above to read the full manuscript. Special thanks to the Tempel lab for all of their help getting this out there :) http://rebeccaminich.com/blog/2017/5/12/sacrificing-shampoo-for-sustainability monthly 0.5 2017-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cca9581d07c08c1fac1062/1494620710625-PAUS45YRX6TVGQYFH2I1/IMG_1203.JPG Blog - Sacrificing Shampoo for Sustainability Sustainability is important to me but lifestyle changes are never easy. To adopt new habits I have found that a strict 2 month 'cold turkey' period followed by a more realistic lifestyle adjustment works best. This year I decided to try my hand at DIY shampoo, body wash and conditioner with products I already use at home. My hope is to use a Castile soap for most things (hands, body, hair, dishes) and just refill it from the bulk soap at the grocery store. This would drastically minimize my container waste! As great as it sounds, it's not necessarily easy and I was worried to commit to two months of potentially destroying my hair and skin. The last time I tried to use Castile soap as shampoo it just turned my hair into a tangle gnarled mess. This time I used a coconut milk recipe and apple cider vinegar rinse. After three weeks I'm still going strong! It's an adjustment but I think I can do this! If you're curious about my regimem please let me know, I'd be happy to do a longer post on the subject. http://rebeccaminich.com/blog/2017/4/9/european-sprint monthly 0.5 2017-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cca9581d07c08c1fac1062/1491803191087-80IJEVD0OMQYCBH4M129/image-asset.jpeg Blog - European Sprint The last few weeks have been a blur! After a final busy week in design haven Barcelona (thanks Gaudi) we took off for a sprint tour of Europe. We started in London filling up on metropolitan culture and Yorkshire pudding. From there we found our way to Kinvara and the Cliffs of Moher. We ended our tour of the British isles in Dublin with a pint of Guiness and a shot of Teeling whiskey. From Dublin we flew to Berlin where we learned how to tear down walls (pictured) and build up tolerance. Our final stop in Mainz was filled with family, food and foolery. We were both working throughout the trip so our nights were filled with hacking (also train rides, plane rides, or in the backseat of the car). Stay tuned for my next project update! http://rebeccaminich.com/blog/2017/3/9/when-the-tough-reviewer-concedes monthly 0.5 2017-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cca9581d07c08c1fac1062/1489083658590-O1MEG5H991Y96G526GLV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - When the tough reviewer concedes... ...Celebrate with Cava! This was my Tapas-ish lunch in Barcelona after receiving positive news about my publication! More on that to come :) http://rebeccaminich.com/blog/2017/3/1/opioid-overdose-where-to-begin-part-i monthly 0.5 2017-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cca9581d07c08c1fac1062/1488569306870-APFANTSB8X006IU7IRQT/image-asset.png Blog - Opioids in America - Part I: Taking a Critical Look at Administrative Claims https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cca9581d07c08c1fac1062/1488565975571-9ATFUQXPTPVVYMFPTS9N/image-asset.png Blog - Opioids in America - Part I: Taking a Critical Look at Administrative Claims The rank for marijuana enthusiasm starts with Colorado as 'most enthusiastic' and ends with North Dakota as 'least enthusiastic'. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cca9581d07c08c1fac1062/1488573437426-RK3YWV0LKJDPJYR07X73/Screen+Shot+2017-03-03+at+8.59.24+PM.png Blog - Opioids in America - Part I: Taking a Critical Look at Administrative Claims https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cca9581d07c08c1fac1062/1488570369011-TB5EFWB4OC0XNUG3S645/Screen+Shot+2017-03-03+at+8.33.54+PM.png Blog - Opioids in America - Part I: Taking a Critical Look at Administrative Claims The feature importances indicate that the majority of the predictive power of the model comes from the top 3 features. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cca9581d07c08c1fac1062/1488574685486-UMACBB3CW9XOX9COBS4S/NND_Weed_scatterplot.png Blog - Opioids in America - Part I: Taking a Critical Look at Administrative Claims https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cca9581d07c08c1fac1062/1488573459167-3WW3JF80U6G21G0EUAWI/image-asset.png Blog - Opioids in America - Part I: Taking a Critical Look at Administrative Claims Fitting the model with two features produced the feature importances seen above. With just these demographics the feature importance is even for both features. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cca9581d07c08c1fac1062/1488574348355-EE3YE9AHOM1XB3QSIQ21/image-asset.png Blog - Opioids in America - Part I: Taking a Critical Look at Administrative Claims https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cca9581d07c08c1fac1062/1488574360511-Y3RMJ3Y3ID4U527PLJZ3/image-asset.png Blog - Opioids in America - Part I: Taking a Critical Look at Administrative Claims https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cca9581d07c08c1fac1062/1488561596974-IDEALJZ8OP3ZCZHL4004/image-asset.png Blog - Opioids in America - Part I: Taking a Critical Look at Administrative Claims https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cca9581d07c08c1fac1062/1488569500659-0A399UM53MMSF4CGZ4AA/image-asset.png Blog - Opioids in America - Part I: Taking a Critical Look at Administrative Claims https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cca9581d07c08c1fac1062/1488570252112-EID8T0I5WG2WRZNAGYQL/Screen+Shot+2017-03-03+at+8.34.14+PM.png Blog - Opioids in America - Part I: Taking a Critical Look at Administrative Claims https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cca9581d07c08c1fac1062/1488566667372-WSMFYZO6M9RY26OMDJP8/image-asset.png Blog - Opioids in America - Part I: Taking a Critical Look at Administrative Claims Red indicates a positive linear correlation, blue indicates a negative linear correlation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cca9581d07c08c1fac1062/1488566106620-KFSGX8MT2ZX29IJVUMA5/image-asset.png Blog - Opioids in America - Part I: Taking a Critical Look at Administrative Claims According to the CDC, the data for narcotics deaths from North and South Dakota is 'unreliable'. Read more on the CDC website. http://rebeccaminich.com/blog/2017/2/19/a-month-in-barcelona monthly 0.5 2017-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cca9581d07c08c1fac1062/1487506981843-I8M3MGMO0ZVTBZ4FEG41/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A month in Barcelona http://rebeccaminich.com/blog/2017/1/30/maternal-mortality-rates-in-the-us monthly 0.5 2017-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cca9581d07c08c1fac1062/1485840638174-XHJYS3F81CPBKP86JBSE/USMMR.png Blog - Maternal Mortality Rates in the US Created with Plotly. High maternal mortality rates are above 14 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, low rates are less than 7 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. Data for MMR were collected between 2001 and 2006. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cca9581d07c08c1fac1062/1485841847431-52OXYE36Q38JMH71ZCRR/image-asset.png Blog - Maternal Mortality Rates in the US Created with Plotly. Teen (15-19) birth rates per 1,000 live births are from 2014. Data from the Kaiser Family Foundation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cca9581d07c08c1fac1062/1485828295799-RX7MKZYJAME2WGFT35AL/image-asset.png Blog - Maternal Mortality Rates in the US This heat map shows the correlations of each of the features and the response variable. Notice that median income is highly correlated with teen birth rate, percent of medicaid paid births and percent obesity in women. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cca9581d07c08c1fac1062/1485845939034-MITQDECOBUNZ1ZM65P1R/image-asset.png Blog - Maternal Mortality Rates in the US Made with Plotly. Darker color always corresponds to higher value. 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I found that teen birth rates are an important feature for predicting U.S. MMRs. I also expanded my visualization skills by practicing with Plotly. Take a look at the source code on my github. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cca9581d07c08c1fac1062/1485843814758-21FFCEVBZ9438S3RYY1R/Mother_heat_map_features.png Portfolio Predicting Global Maternal Mortality Rates - I used Python and Pandas to create a dataframe from 12 individual datasets from the World Health Organization API. The xml format proved tricky and Python was employed to process the data into structures appropriate for Pandas dataframes. I then tuned a Random Forest Regressor model to predict global Maternal Mortality Rates per 100,000 births. The final RMSE was ~80 down from a null RMSE of ~200 (using the mean of ~150). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cca9581d07c08c1fac1062/1480641892959-9TRU154HWYDL7HPOMZ42/R21.jpeg Portfolio I was the primary author and researcher for this funded R21 grant from the Tempel lab. Bruce and I submitted this grant while I was finishing up graduate school in 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cca9581d07c08c1fac1062/1480641814538-SGXZGG5MDS7P52A89YYN/image-asset.jpeg Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cca9581d07c08c1fac1062/1484971169548-HKS23CNWP07IC4EKO44B/MMRSlide.png Portfolio Predicting Maternal Mortality Rates (Slide Deck) - There were a number of interesting predictors for MMR, the most surprising being cell phone subscriptions, Check out my slide deck for more info. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cca9581d07c08c1fac1062/1485843962338-89BSN37HB563NKY72S41/image-asset.jpeg Portfolio Published Dec. 2015, will be publicly available Jan. 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cca9581d07c08c1fac1062/1480639623129-4YEMI0HBYJ724EZT0FY2/FluFinder.jpg Portfolio FluFinder won the pitch competition in the Technology and Entrepreneurship Marketing course, Fall 2013. I was in charge of surveys, stats analysis and interviewing key opinion leaders. I contributed to slide design and was part of the presenting team. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cca9581d07c08c1fac1062/1480641765479-OA9MOPZ1EEMR1IP590W7/image-asset.jpeg Portfolio This project is currently on hold, if you are interested to learn more or would like to review my manuscript please feel free to contact me! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cca9581d07c08c1fac1062/1480641851930-0L7ZK020NZ7DG1QAF59H/image-asset.jpeg Portfolio Claire and I had many stimulating conversations about the implications of long non-coding RNAs in the genomic region of Atp2b2. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cca9581d07c08c1fac1062/1480640337348-HUNIAJSDXXJ92MM5CJJD/image-asset.jpeg Portfolio ReVodka was a thought project for my business strategy course. We were tasked to come up with a new viable business model using an agricultural commodity (and the end product had to be consumable). Our team was given grain. From this we came up with the idea to create consumable ethanol from recycled cereals. Take a look and ponder the idea with an ice cold glass of your favorite beverage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cca9581d07c08c1fac1062/1480641427336-CXMTMJ6MEDKIG4XR0PZD/image-asset.jpeg Portfolio The promoter of Alpha-Atp2b2 was identified. Atp2b2 transcript is misregulated in C57BL/6J mice and long non-coding RNA is upregulated. The auditory system of normal mice is affected by C57BL/6J Atp2b2 gene. Atp2b2 and long non-coding RNA could contribute to age related hearing loss in C57BL/6J mice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cca9581d07c08c1fac1062/1489223315702-CNWIO4JA9AMLKARB9YO9/NarcoticsDeaths.png Portfolio Opioids in America - Part I: Taking a Critical Look at Administrative Claims - My most recent project investigates the opioid epidemic America. The results were inconclusive but there's still food for thought (if you've got the munchies). Check out the model on my blog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cca9581d07c08c1fac1062/1485843698393-STIPNH99ZWR40W3HLKX9/image-asset.jpeg Portfolio Kombucha Maker Project with CircuitPython and Feather - Kombucha doesn't brew very well in the winter time. It is slow and inconsistent (and really not very good). I purchased a heater some time ago thinking that would fix the problem. Unfortunately it kept the culture too hot causing the culture to be imbalanced and the tea to be mehh. So, with the help of a temperature sensor, a Feather and a regulatable AC adapter I was able to write some simple python code to create a kombucha thermostat. Check it out on my blog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cca9581d07c08c1fac1062/1564466598211-0V7TP5TKHU4PJU5WVZ6X/IMG_5130.jpg Portfolio