Tania Rajpersaud
Biochemistry PhD Student, Loverde Lab
College of Staten Island - Expected Graduation: 2026
Objective
Looking for summer research/internship opportunities in computational chemistry.
Bio
Working in a computational lab, Tania’s main project involves simulating charged peptide
systems. Currently she is working on incorporating machine learning methods into her
project in order to predict the sequence dependent behavior of specifically patterned
peptide sequences. Ultimately she is interested in applying computational solutions
towards chemical and biological problems. Outside of lab work, she enjoys reading comics
and playing video games.
Technical Skills
Programming (C++, Python), MD Simulation
Professional Development Skills
• Citation Management – Attended Workshop 11/22
• Career Development - Attended Workshop 12/22
• Science Presentation - Attended Workshop 12/22
Publications
• Tran, T., Rajpersaud, T., & Ekenna, C. (2019, November). Predicting the expression
profile for Plasmodium falciparum genes during the blood stage life cycle. In 2019
IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) (pp.
736-740). IEEE.
Conferences
• NanoBioNYC Launch Event — Spring 2023
Poster: MD Simulation of Oppositely Charged Peptides
Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society — Summer
2022
Poster: MD Simulation of Oppositely Charged Peptides of Alternating Chirality
• CSI Undergraduate Research Conference — Spring 2020
Poster: MD Simulation of Oppositely Charged Peptides of Alternating Chirality
• Buffalo Undergraduate Research conference — Summer 2019
Talk: Modeling the Metabolic Network of Blood Stage Plasmodium Falciparum
• University at Albany Research Symposium — Summer 2019
Talk: Modeling the Metabolic Network of Blood Stage Plasmodium Falciparum
Awards
• Graduate Student CUNY— Fall 2022 - present
Graduate Assistant Research Grant — Fall 2022 - present
• Peter F. Vallone Academic Scholarship — Spring 2017 - Summer 2021
• NanoBioNYC Fellow — Fall 2022 - present
• Rosemary O'Halloran Scholarship — 2022-2023 Academic Year
