BTEC599/699 Biotechnology Research I BTEC599/699 Research I (1 Credit) 5 students **Undergraduate Class & Lab https://www.claflin.edu/ Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States of America. https://www.claflin.edu/academics-research/schools-departments/school-of-natural-sciences-and-mathematics/department-of-mathematics-computer-science/computer-science
Jan 19 2023.
This is the class content for BTEC599 Biotechnology Research I.
GitHub Link for codebase: https://github.com/spawar2/BTEC599-Biotechnology-Research-I
Student Profiles
Research Students GitHub Projects: Student-GitHub-Projects
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Prostrate-Cancer-Biomarker-Analysis Thesis Outline: https://github.com/spawar2/Prostrate-Cancer-Biomarker-Analysis
https://www.linkedin.com/in/zion-ratchford-07514b1b9
This project in collaboration with **Zion Ratchford+π, Undergraduate student: Claflin University Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. (Fall 2023). π+ https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2024/04/ROLE-CIRCULATION-BIOMARKERS-IN-PROSTATE-CANCER-DIAGNOSIS-4dbb44b57f793d6a.pptx
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https://github.com/spawar2/SMART-HOME-CLAFLIN
https://github.com/Caliese https://github.com/DinariSabb https://github.com/WKalynn https://github.com/lerivera27
https://github.com/AdrianL769 https://github.com/germari https://github.com/Mayor90 https://github.com/eniolla
https://github.com/JoshuaKiplimo https://github.com/CoolSubash https://github.com/rushikeshchopaderc
https://github.com/ndubuisx https://github.com/dieko-ade https://github.com/esther-tk https://github.com/zionanari
https://www.linkedin.com/in/priscilla-fatokun-35007119a
https://github.com/mayor90/thesis
https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2023/12/SCICU-research-poster.pptx
This project in collaboration with **Mr. Owalabi Oluwamayowa+π (South Carolina Independent Colleges & Universities SCICU award funded project Role: PI, (Direct costs, Effort=100%)​), Thesis outline**Priscilla E. Fatokun+π (South Carolina Independent Colleges & Universities SCICU award funded project Role: PI, (Direct costs, Effort=100%)), Undergraduate student: Claflin University Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. (Fall 2023). Project: SMART-HOME proposal “collection and processing of health-care data for African-American subjects from wrist wearable devices. [**2023:39] π+, Thesis outline.
https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2023/12/SCICU-research-poster.pptx
https://www.linkedin.com/in/owolabi-oluwamayowa-aa414b1b9?
https://www.linkedin.com/in/priscilla-fatokun-35007119a
https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2024/02/Ayo-2d134734fa2690e0-300x163.png
https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2024/02/Priscillia-b3fbc5f20cc2f248-300x190.png
Thesis video presentation: https://youtu.be/NUPr-kXKCaU
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***Leiara C. Rivera (Graduate student) (Title III and Special Initiative Office SEED Funding, Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA Role: PI, (Direct costs, Effort=100%)): Claflin University Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. (Fall 2023). Biomarker Identification for the Diagnosis of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL). Presently doctoral student at Clemson University, Bioengineering Program. π+ GitHub
**Germari Cull, +π, Undergraduate student: Claflin University Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. (Fall 2023). : https://www.linkedin.com/in/germari-cull-a9b980264​ Title III and Special Initiative Office SEED Funding, Claflin University Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA: Biomarker Identification for the Diagnosis of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) (2024): Total Award Role: PI, (Direct costs, Effort=100%) (Direct and indirect costs) $8,840.00 Students supported **Lierra Rivera+π and **Kalyn Wesby+π https://www.claflin.edu/
**Mr. Adrian Lockwood, (URISE mentor), +π, Undergraduate student: Claflin University Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. (Fall 2023). (Title III and Special Initiative Office SEED Funding, Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA Role: PI, (Direct costs, Effort=100%)) π+
Biomarker Identification for the Diagnosis of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)
https://github.com/spawar2/BTEC599-Biotechnology-Research-I
https://github.com/spawar2/Blood-Cancer-Analysis
Neural networks on CTA in peripheral arterial diseases (PAD): https://github.com/spawar2/CTA-PAD-Neural-Nets
(National Science Foundation (NSF) South Carolina Established Program for Stem Cooperative Research (SC EPSCoR), AI-enabled Devices for the Advancement of Personalized and Transformative Healthcare in South Carolina (ADAPT), RII Track-1 award funded Role: Co-PI, (Direct costs, Effort=100%) project): https://scepscor.org/adapt-in-sc-thrust-2/. GAIN Subaward, Clemson University https://cecas.clemson.edu/biophotonics/ https://scepscor.org/gain-crp/
This project in collaboration with https://github.com/Caliese **Caliese J. Beckford+π, (National Science Foundation South Carolina Established Program for Stem Cooperative Research (SC EPSCoR), AI-enabled Devices for the Advancement of Personalized and Transformative Healthcare in South Carolina (ADAPT), RII Track-1 award funded Role: Co-PI/co-PI (Principal Investigator), NSF Identifier: 000879633, Award Number: 2242812, (Direct costs, Effort=100%) project) GAIN CRP Subaward, Clemson University π+(Grants for Applications in Industry and Networking Collaborative Research Program), Thesis outline, Undergraduate student: **Mr. Sabb, Dinari+π, **Mr. Oluwademiladeayo Ashade+π,
(National Science Foundation South Carolina Established Program for Stem Cooperative Research (SC EPSCoR), AI-enabled Devices for the Advancement of Personalized and Transformative Healthcare in South Carolina (ADAPT), RII Track-1 award funded project Role: Co-PI, NSF Identifier: 000879633, (Direct costs, Effort=100%)) Subaward, Clemson University​ GAIN CRP (Grants for Applications in Industry and Networking Collaborative Research Program), Undergraduate student: Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. (Fall 2023). Machine learning application for biomedical device development. [**2023:39], [**2022:30], [**2024:45​], [**2024:47] ,GitHub, Poster 1, Poster 2. [**2023:34], Github.
​Mr. Amrinder Singh+π, Undergraduate student: Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. Fayetteville state university, North Carolina, + [**2024:45], (Summer 2024). Machine Learning applications in computer aided diagnosis (CAD) hemorrhage, stroke.
**Ms. Taonga. Kandiwo (Improving Alignment techniques for DNA sequencing using machine learning), Thesis outline, Undergraduate student: Claflin University Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA (Fall 2023). π+
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https://github.com/JoshuaKiplimo
**Mr. Joshua Kiprano, Poster, Thesis Outline, Undergraduate student: Claflin University Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA South Carolina, USA. π+
Thesis: Natural Language Processing in managing and tracking applications (Fall 2022). (South Carolina Independent Colleges & Universities SCICU award funded project​) , Presently software engineer at Atlassian.
https://github.com/spawar2/NSF-SCICU-2022
https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2023/02/Joshua-SCICU-768x681.jpg
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuakiprono/
https://github.com/spawar2/SMART-HOME-CLAFLIN
https://www.claflin-computation.com/_files/ugd/81dd80_8bb6fb5a75384bd5888fd7d8f43d51af.pdf
Thesis video presentation: https://youtu.be/Jx6Q7TaISIU
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**Mr. Emmanuel Ndubuisi, Thesis Outline, Undergraduate student: Claflin University Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA South Carolina, USA. π+
Thesis: Protein Classification Using Embeddings from Language Models Trained on Amino Acid
Sequences (Fall 2022). Presently software engineer at Microsoft.
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This project was in collaboration with *Mr. Madhu Gottti, Undergraduate student, Stanford University, California, USA Amity Public School, Connecticut, USA. Experiential Learning Program Project: Identifying biomarkers between lymphoma and leukemia cancer patients (Fall 2021). Los Osos High School, California. π+ https://github.com/spawar2/National-Longitudinal-Study
This project was in collaboration with *Ms. A Agrawal, University of Connecticut, Special Program in Medicine (BS/MD), Farmington, USA. Experiential Learning Program Project: Identifying biomarkers between lymphoma and leukemia cancer patients (Fall 2021). CT STEM and Norwalk Science Fair (Poster). π+
https://github.com/spawar2/Blood-Cancer-Analysis
**Ms. Arianna Sanders, Analyzing Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) data for predicting mortality rates using machine learning techniques, Undergraduate student: Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. (Fall 2024). π​+.
**Mr. Oluwademiladeayo Ashade, Undergraduate student: Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. (Fall 2024). Autism and Attention Deficit Disorder biomarkers. π​+. Machine learning application for biomedical device development (Peripheral Arterial Disease from Computed tomography angiography (CTA)).​
​**Ms. Anaiya Fredrick, Biomarker Identification for the Diagnosis of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) and HSV-1/HSV-2 , Undergraduate student: Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. (Fall 2023), ++. Power-Point (Video PPT). π..
Hemoglobin and cancerous mole monitoring using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), image analysis techniques, and machine learning: https://github.com/spawar2/NIRS-Machine-Learning. In collaboration with *Aryan Shrivastav, sophomore at Amity Regional High School in Woodbridge, Connecticut, USA. π+ https://github.com/AryanS-0101
​**Bioinformatics Major, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Management Information Science (MIS), Undergraduate Students, Department of Computer Science or Biology.
*High School Students: 7; **Undergraduate Students, Department of Computer Science or Biology: 69; ***Graduate/Masters Students: 4; ****Physicians trainees: 4; *****Undergraduate Interns: 6; ******High School Teachers: 2
π: Classes taught: STAT401; BIOL341; BIOL441; CSCI101; CSCI/HNTH391/392; BIOL620; CSCI225; CSCI455; CSCI207; BTEC599/699.Programming language: + Python; ++ R; +++ Python, Javascript, HTML; ++++ Java; +++++ C++